Thanks to the many writers and friends who provided feedback on various stages of this book. Particular thanks to Ted Bishop for his mentorship in the early stages of this project, to the writers of A Drift Collective, and to my editor, Jenna Butler.
Different versions of sections of this book have been published in Geist 91 (2014) and Prairie Fire 25.1 (2004). I am grateful to their skilled editors. Thanks in particular to AnnMarie MacKinnon for her patient and generous work on “The Bosun Chair.”
In researching this book I consulted many resources, including Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, Cows Don’t Know it’s Sunday: Agricultural Life in St. John’s by Hilda Chaulk Murray; More than 50%: A Woman’s Life in a Newfoundland Outport, 1900-1950, by Hilda Chaulk Murray; As Near to Heaven By Sea, by Kevin Major; and The Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson.
Portions of articles have been reproduced from the St. John’s Daily News and the Bay Roberts Guardian. Photos used throughout the book have come from family collections.
JENNIFER BOWERING DELISLE was born in Edmonton, AB, and has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a variety of literary magazines. She completed a PhD in English in 2008 at the University of British Columbia and has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alberta and McMaster University. She is the author of The Newfoundland Diaspora: Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013). She currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta.
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