Crossroads Country
Memories of Pre Confederation Newfoundland
- Publisher
- Breakwater Books Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1999
- Category
- Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550811469
- Publish Date
- Sep 1999
- List Price
- $2.00
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Description
A native of Halifax, Malcolm MacLeod has lived in Newfoundland since the 1970s. He is a past president of the Newfoundland Historical Society and a long time member of the History Department at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Crossroads Country is a collection of life stories from people who grew up in Newfoundland before confederation. It examines the various ties that Newfoundland experienced with Canada, the United States, and Great Britain. Stories of communities and friendships, kin networks and education in Newfoundland and abroad are woven into a tapestry of Newfoundland culture of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.
About the author
After growing up at Armdale (then a suburb, now part of Halifax, Nova Scotia), MacLeod gained a B.A. at Dalhousie University, M.A. at the University of Ottawa. He joined the faculty at Memorial University in 1968, left for a period of time and returned to stay 1978. He has just retired from Memorial's History Department.