Newfoundland, Newfoundland-United States relations. Newfoundland, fisheries, oral history. Maritime, American Colonial and social history. Winner of the President's Award for Outstanding Research, 1991-92. Council of the Students' Union Teaching Award, 1998.
Canadian history is another strong collection.
Consisting of more than 2,200 pamphlets, it constitutes one of the strongest collections of its kind in Canada. An excellent array of reference services supports and extends the resources available in the collection. Archival resources For full descriptions, please click here . My area of specialization is social history, with an emphasis on women's work. My thesis focuses on the young single women who moved from coastal communities to work as domestic servants in the company town of Grand Falls, Newfoundland, in the 1920s and '30s.