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Why not write fOI .iull details TODAY? ATLANTIC HARDBOARD INDUSTRIES LTD TOPSAIL ROAD ST. JOHN'S. NFLD. TilE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY DRINK and ENJOY Rainbow Tea George Neal, Ltd. St. John's NIQ"ht or HolIday. Phone 2838 or 3446 GEO. SUMMERS & SONS WClter Street Ealt GENERAL TRUCKING We Clre equipped to hClndl. Clll kind. of HeClvy MClchinery AT YOUR SERVICE AT ANY TIME UMITED A Dream of rrurt ond Cream Largest Manufacturers oj COD LIVER OIL IN NEWFOUNDLAND Also large producers of TANKED COD OIL for Industrial Purposes Write for lowest prices W. A. MUNN & CO., LTD. THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY Opening new doorways of knowledge about Neu;fQundland ST. JOHN'S, MARCH. 1958 Canada $1.00 a year Vol LVII No.1 Foreign $1.25 a year The Newfoundland Quarterly THE NEWFOUNDLAND LslUed. every third month about the 15th of March. June, September. ~d December HISTORICAL SOCIETY 1.. W. Janes..._.... ...•......Editor and Publisher h a ;:::e~o: o~n~::n~;:d~~;'. ~:e~ P. O. Box ~19, St. John'., Newfoundland T ;: :e like our Historical Society, a purely voluntary To whom all communications should be addI'1!S3ed. organization, and its objects are "to keep a watch on Telephone 80186 old monuments, to protect against all "restoration" that means more than keeping out wind and weather .. Robert Saunders, J.D., Ph.D ........•..COntributin' Editor and to awaken a feelin&; that our ancient monuments are not mere ... toys but monuments of the nation's growth and hope." SUBSCRIPTION RATES; It is true that we have few "'ancient monuments" in Newfoundland to compare with Ena;land. Our history One year in advance (Canada) ................•..$1.00 is only in its infancy in companion but young as we are Foreign subscription .. $1.2.5 (we can lay claim to the oldest city in Canada) and To ensure return of mss, please enclose self-addreSlled that is a mere four centuries, it is not too early for us envelope with sufficient postage. The publisher will not to preserve whatever of historic value we have, for al· be responsible for ION of any mu., drawinp or photo­ ready vandal hands have been laid on the few that exist, graph, but will exercise care in handling material sub­ and those that remain are in danger ot destruction mitted for publieation. through public apathy. Advertisin. rates on applieation. The destruction of the old lighthO\aC at Fort Ambent Authorized as Second Class ~I, is a classic example, and the oldest liahthouse at Cape Plk'it Office Dept., Ottawa, 1953. Spear and the old stone house at Trinity are apparenUy marked, for disappearance in the near future if some All tights in contents of this magazine reserved. Iiction is not taken to preserve them. There arc others -old churches, business premises, etc., some of the latter, valuable not only tor their age, for age alone is not a criterion of the historic, but beeause of their association with the business and cultural life of the CONTENTS province. The most that c:an be done in some c:ases is to ''mark .... the spot"' by a monument, some of wruch rate more than just a cairn of stones. It is true that so little is known of The Newfoundland Historiea.l Society.. 3 these that to construc:t a replica would be useless ,but The Come by Chance Canal.. 4 where warranted a monument of such proportions as When NOd. Helped Save Canada by Dr. Robert would do justice to the history ot the plate and the Saunders .. 7 occasIon is the least that should be done. Let's Go To Nfld, by Ruth Busch .. 11 But historic sites are not the only part of our heritage MemoriK of an Qldlim_Ernest Tilly.. 14 that has been and is bein, neglected. We have ad­ vocated the preservation of historical documents of The GIftn:;pond Saga by Dr. Robert Saunden; .. 18 our colourful past. Many of these have disappeared, Harbour Grace History by May Davis 21 yet there are still in man,. outpam valuable records The Love·hfe of a Moose (Vense) .._ _ _ 23 -old diaries of business !inns and private individuals The St. Barbe Historical Society.... _..._ .._ _._ 24 that contain rich treasures of historic: interest. For ex­ Nnd. War Veterans of New York 24 ample, a few yean ago the writer happened to mention B. J. Roberts, C.B.E 24 something about the landing of the Atlantic: cable at Hearts Contents to an old gentleman of eighty yean and Looking Backward by Arthur H. Briaht .. 25 also the extension of telegraph service to the south side My Prayer Was Answered. by The Late Canon Smith 26 of Trinity Bay, and he told me he had a diary all his Semen or Planteu by Ernest Tilly.......... 27 life and these events were recorded. He remembered On SpelJina, An Essay by Hilaire &lIoe 3lI the arrival of the first teleJI1lph meaq:e and told me The Po.stman Knocks _.. 31, 33, 4i the event was the occuion for a public c:elebration; flap were flown, guns fired and a school holiday was Winter Nilht (Prize Poem) Ethel H. Bartlett ._. 34 liven to the children. No doubt other historic material Ambitious Young Nnder by Gladys Caspersen Q was contained in that diary; multiply that hundreds of Recompense (Verse) _ .._. 48 times in our oulports and it can be easily aeen the mass TilE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY of material hidden in such places. How can such ma­ The Newfoundland Quarterly has been publishing a lerial be collected and preserved? One answer is to series of articles on the early history of the Royal New_ have branches of the Historical Society in as many foundland Regiment and the part it played In the de­ outports as ~ible, branches that will seek out all fence of canada-material that is factual and has never such material so that it can be made available for been published before, and in the cunent issue will be lesearch worken and writers. _n a full-pale illustration of two battle Slandanh of A ltart has been unofficaUy made by Ma&Utrate Jack the Royal Emi,nnts, which was made up Iarlely of A. White at Bay of b1anch. He has been instrumental Kewfoundlanders, during the Winter of 1775-8 at Quebec in instituting a voluntaly aroup into an historical society The Greenspon<! Saga" too, is an example of the vast for that area which meets periodicaly, and no doubt 5torehouse of historic material that is available and this IrouP will work to pre.erve whatever is of his­ Dr. Robert Saunders, fonnerly of Greenspond, the toric interest in the area. &uthor of both, is deserving of the hilhest praise for Hundreds of such branchea, acattered in our outports, the monumental amount of research he has done in could do invaluable work in the preservation of historic the preparation of this work The Trinity and Catalina material Is it not time that our Historical Society stories, too, are examples of the mass of material ltarted a campaign to establlih 5Uch branches? &vailable in our Olltports. Newfoundland has many Most of the other provinces have active Historkal truly epic events and there is a cryinl need for them to Societies and some of them have their own official be recorded In pennanent form. It is time we became periodical publications in whch appears maUers of more historically minded and saw to it that the younger historic Interest, for they are aware of the value and generation, who know so little of our history be taught the need for the preservation of their 5toricd past to takc pride in the story of thcir native province.
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