From Cape to Cape to Cape to Cape
Read your way around the province
Whether you live in Cape Chidley, Cape Onion, Cape Race or Cape Ray or just want to visit these places, you can go there first through one of these books. Visit your public library to borrow these books and many more or check our website (www.nlpl. ca) to see if these books are available as ebooks.
Let’s start our reading journey in Labrador:
“Terra Magna: Labrador” by J.C. Roy is a huge book full of paintings by JC Roy where he captures the grandeur and natural wonders of Labrador.
“Struggling with My Soul” by George Rich takes you inside the incredible struggle of growing up as a Mushuau Innu who was forced to relocate from Davis Inlet to Natuashish. It was a life filled with alcoholism, tragedy and despair. A lot of hard work goes into repairing your soul and rebuilding your community.
Helen gathers together the history of the Women’s Institute of Labrador South. It features interviews with many of the women who still attend WI. “They’ve Done a Lot but May Never Get Credit: The Women’s Institute on the Labrador Straits” by Helen Woodrow. “Ralph, Flying Hound” by Dave Paddon is a humorous tale about Ralph, a hound dog in Williams Harbour, that climbs into the helicopters that hover around this Labrador town. A most wonderful story to read with your children or grandchildren.
Moving from Cape Onion to Cape Ray:
“Adventures of a Grenfell Nurse” by Rosalie Lombard will take you back during the years when medical care depended on a Grenfell nurse. She has plenty of amusing tales to tell of the hardship and miracles.
“Life on the Great Northern Peninsula” by Adrian Payne is chock-full of stories about hard lives that were well-lived, centered on families and the seasons. “Forgotten Coast: Landscapes and Memories of Southwestern Newfoundland” by Angela Baker. Paintings by Angela and old photographs from former residents of Newfoundland’s southwestern coast, together tell the story of the lifestyle in fishing outports on Newfoundland’s most beautiful “Forgotten Coast” before “Resettlement” in the 1950s, ’ 60s & ’70s.
“Dìleab Ailein :the Legacy of Allan Macarthur” by Margaret Bennett, traces the Newfoundland traditions across four generations in and around the Codroy Valley.
Meandering from Cape Ray to Cape Race:
“That Was We (Too): Stories About Growing up in Outport Hermitage” by Wade Parsons. Delve into the tales about life on a small south coast Newfoundland community. “Adventures from Nanny’s Attic” by Johanna Ryan Guy tells the story of Niki, Keny, Coco and Kandy who have always loved their playtime up in Nanny’s attic on St. Brendan’s Island. Now, after their mysterious adventure, they love it even more.
“Walker on the Cape” by Mike Martin is the first book in a mystery series set on the Burin Peninsula featuring Sgt Windflower of the RCMP.
Settle down and enjoy the story of the people from the resettled community of Best’s Harbour/tacks Cove in Placentia Bay in “Best’s Harbour” by C. George Brown. “Miracles Happen: the Rendell Drover Story” by Janice Drover, tells of the injury and remarkable recovery of Upper Island Cove fisherman Rendell Drover. His recovery was made possible by the whole community supporting the family.
The Hearts Ease series of romances by Victoria Barbour are contemporary romances that revolve around the staff and guests of a local B&B. Start with “Against Her Rules” and get the latest – “Wilful Desire.” A schooner disaster affecting the residents of Old Perlican is the basis for the story in “Bends in the Road: As Life Goes By” by Fred Cramm. Learn about how Susan and Ryan, residents in the Witless Bay area, are saving puffins as you read through the charming children’s book “The Puffin Patrol” by Dawn Baker.
Wind up your tour in the capital city with:
“Art, Love and Forgery” by Carolyn Morgan weaves a tale about an arrested Portuguese artist who serves his sentence by designing and painting the frescoes at Government House.
Get ready to chuckle out loud as you slide through a skewering of local municipal politicians in “Today I Learned It Was You” by Ed Riche. Hang out with the corner boys in “Brazil Street: a memoir” by Robert Hunt. Roam around St. John’s with a pack of young boys from downtown as they meet Tommy Ricketts, Alex Faulkner and have many adventures capering around the railway and the wharves.