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NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR COLLECTION GUIDE NO. 11 BOOKS

Amundsen, Roald [et al.] Thrilling Experiences in Discovering the Poles. 1913. 919.8 T41 (Reference - Basement) Appleton, Thomas E. Usque Ad Mare: a History of the Canadian Coast Guard and Marine Services. Ottawa 1969. 359.0971 AP5 (Provincial Collection) Baehre, Rainer K. (ed.) Outrageous Seas: Shipwreck and Survival in the Waters off Newfoundland, 1583-1893. Montreal 1999. 910.452 OU8 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob. The Log of Bob Bartlett: the True Story of Forty Years of Seafaring and Exploration. New York 1928 & St. John’s 2006. 910.4 B28 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob. Sails Over Ice. New York 1934 & St. John’s 2008. 919.8 B28 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob and Ralph T. Hale. The Karluk’s Last Voyage: an Epic of Death and Survival in the Arctic, 1913-1916. New York 2001. 919.8 B28 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob and Ralph T. Hale. The Last Voyage of the Karluk: Shipwreck and Rescue in the Arctic. St. John’s 2007. 919.8 B28 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob and Ralph T. Hale. Northward Ho!: the Last Voyage of the Karluk. Boston 1916. 919.8 B28 (Nfld Room) Berton, Pierre. The Arctic Grail: the Quest for the North West Passage and the North Pole, 1818-1909. Toronto 1988. 910.09 B46 (Vault) Blossom, Frederick Augustus (ed.) Told At the Explorers Club: True Tales of Modern Exploration. New York 1931. 910.4 B62 (Vault) Candow, James E. But Summer Will Come: a Structural History of Hawthorne Cottage, Home of Arctic Explorer Captain Bob Bartlett, Brigus, Newfoundland. St. John’s 1996. 971.8 C16 (Nfld Room) Chafe, Ernest F. The Voyage of the Karluk and Its Tragic Ending. [St. John’s 19–]. 919.8 C34 Folder (Nfld Room) Croft, Andrew. Polar Exploration. London 1947. 919.8 C87 (Vault)

1 Davis, Richard C. (ed.) Lobsticks and Stone Cairns: Human Landmarks in the Arctic. Calgary 1996. 910.92 L78 (Vault) Dictionary of Newfoundland and Labrador Biography. St. John’s 1990: 16-17. 920.0718 D56 (Nfld Room) Doiron, Karen E. Bob Bartlett of Newfoundland: a Man of International Significance. St. John’s 1971. 920 PAMP. N3 (Conservation Room) Eames, Hugh. Winner Lose All: Dr. Cook and the Theft of the North Pole. Boston 1973. B C77E (Reference - Basement) Forbes, Alexander. Quest for a Northern Air Route. Cambridge 1953. 919.8 F74 (Vault) & (Photocopy in Provincial Collection - Oversize) Gill, F. Burnham. New Look at Bob Bartlett. St. John’s 1972. 920 G41 Folder (Vault) Goetzmann, William H. and Glyndwr Williams. The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole. New York 1992. 911.7 G55 (Vault) Green, Fitzhugh. Bob Bartlett: Master Mariner. New York 1929. B B28G (Nfld Room) Green, Fitzhugh. Peary, the Man Who Refused To Fail. New York 1926. B P31G (Vault) “Hawthorne Cottage” National Historic Site, July 11, 1982: In Commemoration of Hawthorne Cottage, Brigus, Newfoundland. St. John’s 1983. 971.8 H31 Folder (Vault) Hayes, J. Gordon. The Conquest of the North Pole: Recent Arctic Exploration. New York 1934. 919.8 H32 (Vault)

Henderson, Bruce. True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole. New York 2005. 910.9 H38 (Vault) Herbert, Wally. The Noose of Laurels: the Discovery of the North Pole. London 1989. B P31H (Vault) Horwood, Harold. Bartlett, the Great Canadian Explorer. Garden City, N.Y. 1977. B B28H (Nfld Room) Leamon, John Northway. Brigus: Past Glory, Present Splendour. St. John’s 1998. 971.8 L47 (Nfld Room) 2 MacMillan, Donald Baxter. How Peary Reached the Pole: the Personal Story of His Assistant, Donald B. MacMillan. Boston 1934 & Montreal 2008. 919.8 M22 (Vault & Nfld Room) McKinlay, William Laird. Karluk: the Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. London 1978. 919.8 M21 (Vault) McKinlay, William Laird. The Last Voyage of the Karluk: a Survivor’s Memoir of Arctic Disaster. New York 1999. 919.804 M21 (Nfld Room) Moore, J. Hampton. Peary’s Discovery of the North Pole: Speech of Hon. J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives, March 22, 1910. Washington 1910. (Vertical File) Morris, Charles (ed.) Finding the North Pole: Dr. Cook’s Own Story of His Discovery, April 21, 1908; the Story of Commander Peary’s Discovery, April 6, 1909; Together With the Marvelous Record of Former Arctic Expeditions. [Philadelphia? 1909] 919.8 M83 (Vault) Mowat, Farley. The Polar Passion: the Quest for the North Pole. Toronto 1973. 919.8 M87 (Vault) Niven, Jennifer. The Ice Master: the Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk. New York 2000. 919.8 N64 (Nfld Room) Parks Canada. Hawthorne Cottage National Historic Site of Canada Management Plan. Ottawa 2007. 971.8 P23 (Nfld Room) Peary, Marie Ahnighito. The Snowbaby’s Own Story. New York 1934. B P31 (Vault) Peary, Robert E. Nearest the Pole: a Narrative of the Polar Expedition of the Peary Arctic Club in the S.S. Roosevelt, 1905-1906. New York 1907. 919.8 P31 (Vault) Peary, Robert E. The North Pole. London 1910. 919.8 P31 (Vault - Rare Books Cabinet) Putnam, David Binney. David Goes to Baffin Land. New York 1927. 910.45 P98 (Nfld Room) Putnam, David Binney. David Goes to Greenland. New York 1926. 919.8 P98 (Nfld Room)

3 Putnam, George Palmer. Mariner of the North: the Life of Captain Bob Bartlett. New York 1947. B B28P (Nfld Room) Rasky, Frank. The North Pole or Bust. Toronto 1977. 919.8 R18 (Vault) Rawlins, Dennis. Peary at the North Pole: Fact or Fiction? Washington 1973. 919.8 R19 (Vault) Sarnoff, Paul. Ice Pilot, Bob Bartlett. New York 1966. B B28S (Nfld Room) Streeter, Daniel W. An Arctic Rodeo. New York 1929. 919.8 ST8 (Vault) Walters, Eric. Trapped in Ice. Toronto 2008. WAL (Nfld Room) Weems, John Edward. Peary, the Explorer and the Man. Boston 1967. B P31W (Vault) Weems, John Edward. Race for the Pole. New York 1960. 919.8 W41 (Vault) Who’s Who In and From Newfoundland (3 vol.). St. John’s 1927, 1930, 1937. 920.0718 W62 (Nfld Room)

PERIODICAL ARTICLES

Bartlett, Bob. ‘The sea is a hard master’. American Magazine 104, July - December 1927: 26-28, 97-98, 100. (Vertical File) Bartlett, Bob. ‘Greenland from 1898 to now: “Captain Bob”, who went north with Peary, tells of 42 years of exploration in the Orphan Island...’ National Geographic Magazine 78(1), July 1940: 111-140. 910 N21 (Reference - Basement) Bartlett, Bob. ‘The sealing saga of Newfoundland’. National Geographic Magazine 56(1), July 1929: 91-130. 639.1 B28 (Nfld Room) Bartlett, Bob. ‘Servicing Arctic airbases’. National Geographic Magazine 89(5), May 1946: 602-[616]. Bartlett, Bob. ‘A stone’s throw from the pearly gates’. Veteran Magazine 12(1), December 1937: 18-20.

4 ‘Captain “Bob” Bartlett tells of far north fish’. Colonial Commerce 26(11), October 31, 1917: 13-14. (Box 3, #1) ‘Christmas nearest the North Pole’. Newfoundland Quarterly 9(3), December 1909: 4. Coish, Calvin. ‘Brigus: a glorious town with a glorious past’. Atlantic Advocate 74(8), April 1984: 57-59. Currey, John E. ‘Down to the sea in ships: schooners’ (Effie M. Morrissey). Downhomer 10(9), February 1998: 19-20; 10(11), April 1998: 32-34. Davies, Thomas D. ‘The Pole at last!!!’ U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings 117(2), February 1991: 36-42. (Vertical File) Devine, Mary. ‘Hawthorne Cottage’. Canadian Antiques Collector 10(2), March-April 1975: 70-72. Devine, Mary. ‘Hawthorne Cottage unveiling ceremony’. Trident 7(3), November 1982: [5]. ‘The drift of the “Karluk”’. Newfoundland Quarterly 14(1), July 1914: 19. Earles, Ellen. ‘Hawthorne Cottage: a new national historic site’. Newfoundland Herald 37(27), July 10-16, 1982: 42. ‘A great Newfoundlander passes’ (Capt. Bob Bartlett). Atlantic Guardian 2(6), June 1946: 31-33. Hanrahan, Maura. ‘Encounter’ (author explores the many sides of Arctic mariner Robert Abram Bartlett). Beaver 83(5), October-November 2003: 51. ‘Hawthorne Cottage, home of Captain Bob Bartlett’. Newfoundland Historic Parks Association Newsletter 4, 1996. (Vertical File) ‘Hawthorne Cottage, National Historic Site of Canada’. Parks Canada Management Plan Newsletter Fall 2006. (Vertical File) Herbert, Wally. ‘Commander Robert E. Peary: did he reach the Pole?’ National Geographic 174(3), September 1988: 387-413. Horwood, Harold. ‘Bob Bartlett, ice captain’. Horizon Canada 3(36), 1985: 860-864. Horwood, Harold. ‘Bob Bartlett, master of the Arctic seas’. Canadian Geographic 98(2), April/May 1979: 44-49. Jones, Kenneth. ‘How Canada almost claimed Wrangel Island’. Canadian Geographic, 102(4), August/September 1982: 56-63.

5 Keels, Janice. ‘Hawthorne Cottage is officially opened’. Newfoundland Herald 50(28), July 15-21, 1995: 12. ‘Legends of the sea: ships that changed the course of history’ (Roosevelt). Downhomer 17(6), November 2004: 66-67. Maunder, Ern. ‘Capt’n Bob Bartlett: a tribute’. Atlantic Guardian 10(3), July 1953: 25- 27. ‘Memorial to Capt. Bob Bartlett’ (at Memorial University). Newfoundland Quarterly 54(3), September 1955: 25. ‘A Newfoundlander in Siberia’. Newfoundland Quarterly 17(1), July 1917:18, 21, 23. Nurse, Allan O. ‘Captain Robert A. Bartlett’. Newfoundland Quarterly 9(4), March 1910: 1. Peary, Robert E. ‘The discovery of the Pole: first report, September 6, 1909'. National Geographic Magazine 20(10), October 1909, p. 896-916. 910 N21 (Reference - Basement) ‘Robert Abram Bartlett’. Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador (v. 1). St. John’s 1981: 136-139. 971.8 EN1 (Nfld Room) Roth, Mark. ‘The Brigus connection’. Atlantic Advocate 72(5), January 1982:39-40. Stewart, Hugh. ‘Robert Bartlett (1875-1946)’ [obituary]. Arctic 39(2), June 1986: 188- 189. Stockwood, Ab. ‘High mystery and high ice’ (Newfoundlanders at the North Pole). Newfoundland Herald 41(23), June 7-13, 1986: 22-23. Turner, Daniel S. ‘Voyage of the Morrissey’ (photographs). National Geographic Magazine 89(5), May 1946: I-viii [609-616]. Wakeham, P. J. ‘King of the northern floes’ (poem). Newfoundland Stories & Ballads 2(3), Winter 1955-1956: 19-20.

Wells, Clyde K. ‘Newfoundland’s polar men: R. Bartlett and V. Campbell’. Newfoundland Quarterly 90(3), Summer-Fall 1996: 2-8. Wornell, A. C. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett: Arctic explorer’ (poem). Newfoundland Stories & Ballads 14(2), Spring 1968: 47. Young, Ron. ‘The heroic Captain Bob Bartlett’. Downhomer 11(12), May 1999: 92-93.

6 NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

Bartlett, Bob. ‘Bartlett’s story of the Karluk ship sinks Jany. 11 after “zigzagging” since Sept. 20'. Daily News, 10 June 1914, p. 5. Bartlett, Bob. ‘Bob Bartlett sees sun set behind ice’. Wireless to the New York Times, 9 September 1933, p. 9. (Vertical File) ‘The Bartlett memorial’ (editorial). Evening Telegram, 2 October 1948, p. 6. Bartlett, Steve. ‘Thinking outside the box: Wheaties box captivates councillor; shows fame Bartlett enjoyed’. Telegram, 21 January 2009, p. A1, 2. ‘Bob Bartlett - a Newfoundland hero’. Observer’s Weekly, 31 March 1934, p. 13, 15- 16, 20. ‘Bob Bartlett safe and in Siberia’ (re loss of the Karluk). Daily News, 30 May 1914, p. 1. ‘Bob Bartlett to head party in far north’. Evening Telegram, 20 March 1926, p. 3. ‘Bob Bartlett’s ship may come home again’. Evening Telegram, 7 September 1982, p. 3. ‘Bring the Morrissey home’ (editorial). Evening Telegram, 11 September 1982, p. 6. ‘Cap’n Bob returns from Peary shrine: harbor whistles greet schooner Morrissey, back from northern Greenland’. New York Times, 28 September 1932. (Vertical File) ‘Capt. Bob Bartlett and the Morrissey’. Daily News, 31 December 1938, p. 55. ‘Capt. Bob Bartlett, explorer, 70, dies’. Evening Telegram, 6 May 1946, p. 2. ‘Capt. Bob Bartlett helps hurricane sufferers’. Daily News, 22 October 1938, p. 6. ‘Capt. “Bob”: lines in envy’ (poem). Observer’s Weekly, 1 December 1934, p. 16.

‘Captain Bob Bartlett’ (editorial). Evening Telegram, 29 April 1946, p. 6. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett here on brief visit’. Evening Telegram, 21 September 1934, p. 4. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett is laid to rest’. Evening Telegram, 9 May 1946, p. 1, 3. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett off to the North again: Morrissey expedition hopes to circumnavigate Baffinland’. Evening Telegram, 26 June 1934, p. 4. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett returns from Arctic’. Evening Telegram, 6 September 1938, p. 6. ‘Captain Bob Bartlett’s estate valued at $42, 470'. Daily News, 27 June 1947, p. 3.

7 ‘Captain Robert Bartlett called by death: famous explorer passed away in New York’. Evening Telegram, 29 April 1946, p. 3. ‘Captain Robert Bartlett dies in New York’. Fishermen’s Advocate, 4 May 1946, p. 8. Cleary, Ryan. ‘Blazing trails across the Arctic: Bob Bartlett had a taste for adventure and a knack for survival’. Telegram, 1 January 2000, p. 12. Dooley, Danette. ‘Snowbabies figurines have a Newfoundland connection’. Telegram, 12 September 2008, p. D2. ‘Dow officer sailed on famous Arctic ship, Effie Morrissey’. Evening Telegram, 9 January 1946, p. 3. Flynn, Mike. ‘Hawthorne House joins national ranks’. Evening Telegram, 28 June 1995, p. 3. ‘Geographic Soc. Head in Nfld. to see [Bartlett] memorial’. Evening Telegram, 19 May 1953, p. 1. George, Alexander R. ‘Peary got to Pole hard way, just 40 years ago’. Buffalo Courier-Express, 3 April 1949, 26A. 919.8 G29 Folder (Nfld Room) Hanrahan, Maura. ‘The daring and dutiful captains Bartlett’. Telegram, 7 February 2009, p. D1. Harper, Kenn. ‘Ruth Makpii Ipalook, 97, homemaker, community leader: she was the youngest survivor of the ill-fated Karluk expedition’. Globe and Mail, 27 September 2008, p. S7. Harrington, Michael. ‘Famous schooner comes home: but where is home?’ Evening Telegram, 13 September 1982, p. 6. Hebbard, Gary. ‘Facelift for Hawthorne Cottage’. Evening Telegram, 28 November 1994, p. 3. ‘Honour Captain Bartlett’ (re bronze plaque from Camp Fire Club of America to be placed in or near Memorial University of Newfoundland). Daily News, 17 May 1955, p. 3. Janes, Burton K. ‘Bob Bartlett’s first shipwreck’. Telegram, 29 July 2005, p. A11. Janes, Burton K. ‘Northward with Peary: a Bell Islander’s tale of adventure’ (Denis Murphy). Telegram, 6 September 2008, p. F4. Janes, Burton K. ‘Tales from Capt. Bob Bartlett’s childhood’. Telegram, 17 January 2009, p. D5. ‘Master mariner, explorer Capt. Bob Bartlett’. Evening Telegram, 3 April 1979, p. 41A.

8 ‘A memorial honours Captain R. A. Bartlett: unveiled at Brigus, C. B.’ Evening Telegram, 2 October 1948, p. 2. ‘Memorial to honour Captain Bob Bartlett will be unveiled at Brigus on Thursday, September 30th’. Evening Telegram, 27 September 1948, p. 3. ‘Model of copper ship among evidence of famous Nfld. wanderings in Arctic’ (Effie M. Morrissey). Western Star, 5 October 1961, p. 3. Mullowney, Tara. ‘Province celebrating historical figure: life and legacy of Capt. Bob Bartlett focus of events’. Telegram, 10 January 2009, p. A9. ‘New building named for Newfoundland explorer’ (Centre for Cold Ocean Resources Engineering, MUN). Evening Telegram, 9 April 1981, p. 2. ‘Newfoundland honours famous mariner-explorer: shipmates unveil monument to Bob Bartlett of Polar fame’. Evening Telegram, 16 July 1949, p. 34. ‘Off to the North Pole! Captain Bartlett sanguine, intends to place the Newfoundland flag at the Pole’. Evening Telegram, 17 July 1908, p. 6. Outerbridge, Leonard. ‘Lieut. Governor tells “Bob” Bartlett story: a brave man’. Daily News, 27 January 1955, p. 5, 9. ‘Peary expedition’ (Governor William MacGregor’s telegram of congratulations on reaching so far north). Evening Telegram, 3 November 1906, p. 4. ‘Peary party safe: arrived at Hopedale without deaths or sickness’. Evening Telegram, 3 November 1906, p. 8. ‘Peary Polar aides get honor medals: awards are made to Bartlett and MacMillan 36 years after success in the Arctic’. Daily News, 8 June 1945, p. 7. Peary, Robert E. ‘Peary’s race with death’. Evening Telegram, 28 November 1906, p. 3, 5. ‘Peary sails next Monday’. Evening Telegram, 2 July 1908, p. 6.

‘Peary’s crew of Newfoundlanders back’. Evening Telegram, 6 September 1907, p. 6. Phillips, H.I. ‘The little Morrissey sails again’ (poem). Evening Telegram, 2 October 1948, p. 2. Riggs, Bert. ‘Going north to the Pole: Capt. Robert Bartlett accompanied explorer Robert Peary on several trips to the Arctic’. Telegram, 21 January 2002, p. A7. Roberts, Terry. ‘Honouring an explorer: iconic Newfoundland seafarer Capt. Bob Bartlett to be remembered through events, celebrations’. Telegram, 3 January 2009, p. A5. Stacey, Jean Edwards. ‘Capt. Bob’s home: Hawthorne Cottage is the pride of Brigus’. Evening Telegram, 8 July 1996, p. 13. 9 Stacey, Jean Edwards. ‘Summer in Brigus: Mary Cook recalls summers spent at Capt. Bob Bartlett’s homestead and an evening spent entertaining the Archbishop of Canterbury’. Evening Telegram, 10 August 1996, p. 15. ‘Stefansson’s ship Karluk goes adrift’. Daily Mail, 15 January 1914, p. 3. Terranovan. ‘Honouring a hero’ (Captain Bob Bartlett). Evening Telegram, 29 September 1948, p. 6. Vaughan-Jackson, Mark. ‘A labor of love: one woman’s admiration of Capt. Bob Bartlett expressed in art and history’ (Janice Udell). Evening Telegram, 16 June 1995, p. 15. Wangersky, Russell. ‘Brigus and Bartlett: an Arctic journey that shows the true measure of man’. Telegram, 4 January 2003, p. A11. Wangersky, Russell. ‘Celebrate Bartlett, but for the right reasons’. Telegram, 10 May 2008, p. A11. White, Jack A. ‘Brigus - an “old country” town settled in 1700's’. Daily News, 7 September 1949, p. 10.

MAPS

[Map of Brigus]. 912.718 M32 No. 2 (Vault - Map Cabinet)

POSTCARDS

Brigus. Ayre & Sons, Ltd., St. John’s, Newfoundland, No. 1159. Postcard T&V21 Brigus, C.B., Newfoundland. Byrne, St. John’s, N.F. Series. Postcard T&V22 Brigus, N’fld. Dicks & Co., St. John’s, Nfld. Postcard T&V23

VIDEOS, DVDS, AUDIO BOOKS

Bartlett, Bob. The Last Voyage of the Karluk (MP3). Rattling Books 2005. 919.8 B28 (Audio Book)

10 Captain Bob Bartlett (‘Life & Times’ series). CBC St. John’s 1998. 919.8 C17 (Video) Crossroads of Courage: Battle Harbour, Labrador (History Lands, Canada’s Heritage Sites series). McNabb Connolly 2000. 971.9 H62 (DVD) Harold MacPherson: Captain Bob Bartlett (‘Yesterday’s Heroes’ series). CBC St. John’s 1981. P0189 (Video) Red Bay: Brigus (‘Where Once They Stood’ series). CBC St. John’s 1979. P0216 (Video)