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Rogues and Heroes © Paul Butler & Maura Hanrahan 2005 tells the stories of fascinating Newfoundlanders, with an emphasis on the pre-1949 era.  Some were adored; others were feared; still more inhabited that misty landscape that makes them rogues to some and heroes to others.

Table of Contents

  • An Accidental Discovery: John Cabot
  • Prince of Pirates: Peter Easton
  • Newfoundland’s Elusive Princess: Sheila NaGueira
  • New World Entrepreneur: Lady Sara Kirke
  • Outside the Law: Peter Kerrivan and the Masterless Men
  • A World-Famous Prophet: Richard Brothers
  • A Fighting Spirit: Desmaduit
  • Last of the Beothuck?: Shanawdithit
  • South Coast Heroine: Ann Harvey
  • The Last Woman Hanged: Catherine Snow
  • Making This Place Our Own: William Carson and Patrick Morris
  • Making This Place Our Own: Philip Little and Robert Parsons
  • A Star of the Sea: Captain William Jackman
  • A Man of His Time: Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
  • Granite and Lilies: Captain Bob Bartlett
  • Northern Newfoundland Nurse-Midwife: Myra Bennett
  • Birthing for Generations: Traditional Newfoundland Midwives
  • A Millionaire in Seals: Captain Abram Kean
  • The Grand Dames of Newfoundland Politics:
  • Armine Gosling, Frances McNeil, and Lady Helena Squires
  • Bread and Roses: St. John’s Activist Julia Salter Earle
  • Rebel with a Cause: Pearce Power
  • The Nightingale of the North: Marie Toulinguet
  • "Calling Newfoundland": Margot Davies
  • Newfoundland Folk Renaissance:
  • Rufus Guinchard, Emile Benoit, and Minnie White
  • Comedy without Malice: Ted Russell
  • Confederation-Bound: Joseph Roberts Smallwood
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