Newfoundland
Subtitle: as it was, and as it is in 1877
Published: 1878
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Description: Toque wrote this history of the people of Newfoundland "to show British and American reader that Newfoundland is something more than a mere fishing station, as well as to make Newfoundlanders themselves better acquainted with their own country" (preface).
Table of contents: title: First settlement and general history, from 1497 to the appointment of the first civil governor in 1728; title: General history, from the appointment of the first civil governor in 1728 to 1877; title: District of St. John’s; title: District of Conception Bay; title: District of Trinity Bay; title: District of Bonavista Bay; title: District of Fogo and Twillingate; title: District of Ferryland; title: District of Placentia and St. Mary’s; title: District of Burin; title: History of Fortune Bay, St. Peter’s, etc.; title: St. George’s Bay, Bay of Islands, etc.; title: Labrador; title: The fisheries; title: Government, revenue, trade and shipping; title: Population, religion and education; title: Agricultural resources and manufactures; title: Natural history; title: Climate; title: Meteorology; title: Geology; title: Mineralogy; title: Zoology; title: Botany; title: The Red Indian, or Bœothicks.