Disasters Bibliography

Baker, Melvin. “The St. John’s Fire of July 8, 1892: The Politics of Rebuilding, 1892-1893,” Dr. Mel Baker’s Homepage (1984) http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~melbaker/1892fire.htm (8 May 2007).

Baker, Melvin. Aspects of Nineteenth Century St. John’s Municipal History. St. John’s: Harry Cuff Publications, Limited, 1982.

Baker, Melvin. “Voluntarism and the Fire Service in Nineteenth Century St. John’s, Newfoundland.” Unpublished paper, 1981.

Beveridge, W.I.B. Influenza: The Last Great Plague. New York: Prodist, 1977.

Brown, Cassie. Death on the Ice. Toronto: Doubleday Canada Limited, 1972.

Brown, Cassie. “Death March.” Atlantic Advocate 56.1 (1965): pp. 51-66.

Budgell, Anne. “The Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Okak and Hebron, Labrador.” Unpublished. Presented at the Inuit Studies Conference, August 1996.

Budgell, Anne. “The Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Okak and Hebron, Labrador.” Unpublished paper for History 4671, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Fall 1994.

“Burin.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

Candow, James E. Of Men and Seals: A History of the Newfoundland Seal Hunt. Ottawa : National Historic Parks and Sites, Canadian Parks Service, Environment Canada, 1989.

Chafe, Levi George. Chafe’s Sealing Book: A History of the Newfoundland Sealfishery from the Earliest Available Records Down to and Including the Voyage of 1923. Edited by H.M. Mosdell. St. John’s: The Trade Printers and Publishers Ltd., 1923.

Collins, Calvin. “The ‘Newfoundland’ Disaster of 1914: An Interview with Cecil Mouland, a Survivor.” Newfoundland Quarterly 76.2 (1980): 9-11.

Cranford, Garry. Tidal Wave: A List of Victims and Survivors – Newfoundland 1929. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2000.

Daily News, 6 April 1914.

“Earthquakes.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

Evening Telegram, 3 April 1914; 4 April 1914; 4 April 1914 (special edition).

“Firefighting and prevention.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

“Fires.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

Gordon, Henry. A Winter in Labrador 1918-1919. New York: Henry Gordon, 1919.

“Great Fire of 1892,” Newfoundland and Labrador’s Registered Heritage Structures http://www.heritage.nf.ca/society/rhs/greatfire.html (7 May 2007).

Hanrahan, Maura. Tsunami: The Newfoundland Tidal Wave Disaster. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2004.

Harvey, Moses. The Great Fire in St. John’s, Newfoundland, July 8, 1892. St. John’s: Creative Publishers, 1992.

“Health.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

“Inuit.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

Kean, Abram. Old and Young Ahead. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2000.

Kent, Rockwell. N by E. Cornwall: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1936.

Kent, W.J. A Directory Containing Names and Present Addresses of Professional Men, Merchants and Shopkeepers, Burnt out by the General Conflagration of July 8th, 1892; A Full Account of the Great Fire, the Customs’ Tariff and Other Matter of General Information. Newfoundland: W.J. Kent, 1892.

Looker, Janet. Disaster Canada. Toronto: Lynx Images, 2000.

Ludlow, W. Keith. “The Fire of 1892 and its General Effects on the City of St. John’s.” Unpublished paper, Urban Geology 3701, 1970.

MacLeod, Malcolm. “Disaster documents 1914: The official Canadian response to Newfoundland’s sealing tragedies” Newfoundland Quarterly 77.2-3 (1981): 11-12.

Markham, Nigel. “The North Coast of Labrador and the Spanish Influenza of 1918.” Them Days 11.3 (1986): 4-5.

Matte, Lynne Anne Marie. “Oral Narratives of the 1929 Newfoundland Tidal Wave: Narrative Functions, Gender Roles and Commodification.” Unpublished MA thesis. Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2006.

McDonald, Ian. “To each his own”: William Coaker and the Fishermen’s Protective Union in Newfoundland politics, 1908-1925. (edited by J.K. Hiller) St. John’s: ISER Books, 1987.

McLean, Wally. “Spanish Flu in Labrador.” Them Days 23.2 (1998): 13-23.

Natural Resources Canada, “The Magnitude 7.2 1929 ‘Grand Banks’ Earthquake and Tsunami,” (21 February 2006) http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic_eq/20th/1929/1929_e.php (3 May 2007).

Obed, Joshua. “Spanish Flu at Hebron.” Them Days 6.1 (1980): 3-18.

Parsons, Alex A. “Our Great Sealing Industry.” Newfoundland Quarterly 14.4 (1915): 6-9.

Pettigrew, Eileen. The Silent Enemy. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books, 1983.

Phillips, Howard and David Killingray (Eds.). The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives. London: Routledge, 2003.

Prowse, D.W. A History of Newfoundland. Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s: Boulder Publications Ltd., 2002.

Prowse, D.W. Report of Judge Prowse on the Fire of the 8th and 9th July, 1892. St. John’s: “Evening Telegram” Job-print, 1893.

Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the Sealing Disasters of 1914. St. John’s: The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1915.

Rideout, Heather Lynn. “A Dominion and a World in Crisis: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic, 1918-19.” Unpublished honour’s dissertation. Memorial University of Newfoundland, January 1996.

Rogers, T.B. “The Last Voyage of the Southern Cross.” Newfoundland Quarterly 76.3 (1980): 21-30.

Ruffman, Alan and Violet Hann. “The Newfoundland Tsunami of November 18, 1929: An Examination of the Twenty-eight Deaths of the ‘South Coast Disaster’.” Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 21.1 (2006): 97-147.

Ruffman, Alan. Tsunami Runup Mapping as an Emergency Preparedness Planning Tool: The 1929 Tsunami in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Vol. 1. Ottawa: Emergency Preparedness Canada, 1996.

Ruffman, Alan. Tsunami Runup Mapping as an Emergency Preparedness Planning Tool: The 1929 Tsunami in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, Vol. 2. Ottawa: Emergency Preparedness Canada, 1996.

Ruffman, Alan. “Report on the November 1 to 22 and November 30 to December 9, 1994 Community Lecture Tour to Commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the 1929 Earthquake and ‘Tidal Wave’: Canada’s Most Tragic Earthquake.” Unpublished report. 20 December 1994.

Ruffman, Alan. “Atlantic Tsunamis: ‘Like a River Returning’,” Maritime Museum of the Atlantic (18 January 2005) http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mma/research/tsunamitalk.html (3 May 2007).

Ryan, Shannon. The Ice Hunters. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994.

Ryan, Shannon. “Newfoundland Sealing Disasters.” Paper presented to the Canadian Historical Association. 29 May 1990.

Ryan, Shannon. “Animals of the Ice: The Seal in Newfoundland Culture.” Unpublished paper presented to the American Folklore Society of Philadelphia, November 1976.

Saunders, Doris (ed.). Them Days 11.3 (1986).

South Coast Disaster Committee. Report of the South Coast Disaster Committee. St. John‘s: Manning & Rabbitts, Printers, 1931.

“Spanish Flu at Hebron.” Inuktitut 77 (1995): 3-23.

“Spanish Influenza.” Them Days 1.1 (1975): 25-27.

“SS Newfoundland.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

“SS Southern Cross.” Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador. Vols. 1-5, St. John’s: Newfoundland Book Publishers, 1981-1994.

“The Sealing Tragedy.” Newfoundland Quarterly 13.4 (1914): p. 23.

St. John’s Fire Relief Committee. Report of the Saint John’s Fire Relief Committee: Fire of July 8, 1892. St. John’s: The Tribune Book and Job Office, 1894.

The Great Fire in St. John’s, Newfoundland, July 8, 1892. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1892.

“The Spanish Flu.” Them Days 14.2 (1989): 4-9.

“The Survivors.” Them Days 11.3 (1986): 49-63.

“Voyage of Relief Ship Meigle to Scene of Tidal Wave Disaster, Lamaline to Rock Harbour, Districts Burin East and West.” Unpublished report. 28 November 1929.

Wei, Jamie De. “The Great Disaster (Fiftieth Anniversary).” Newfoundland Quarterly 63.1 (1964): p. 11-12.

Updated June, 2007