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A Collection of Stories by Bert Riggs, (an archivist with the Centre for Newfoundland Studies at Memorial University), whose column, A Backward Glance appears in the Telegram each Tuesday.

Contents

1. Two Women Who Courted Success	16. A First in Newfoundland Literature
2. My Three Wives	17. Secrets to Some Long Lives
3. Valour at Amiens	18. A Nationalist Who Spoke His Mind
4. The lost prose of Anastasia English	19. A Commitment to the North
5. Medicine and Politics may seem Strange Bedfellows	20. All the way from Oderin
6. Not the Stuff of a Tourism Brochure	21. A Politician often in the Soup
7. A Well Rounded Businessman	22. Michael Morris, Struck down in his Prime
8. Governor Pushed Confederation	23. A Right Honourable, Quiet Lady
9. CONNE River and the Mi'kmaq	24. A Regimental Quartet
10. The power behind Sir John's throne	25. The Rendells of Cochrane Street
11. Another destructive fire	26. Sailing into the Thick of Things
12. The brief tenure of Governor Byng	27. The First Vice-Regal Representative
13. At home with Mr. Hoyles	29. A walk through the Woods family
14. Lining up for Labrador
15. An Unfavourable Legacy

Transcribed by: Barbara McGrath
REVISED: August 2002 (Terry Piercey)

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