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Authors and Their Books Referencing Bonavista Bay History Select an Author to see Their Books
Roland W. Abbott	L. Roy Babstock
Captain Job Barbour	Linda Hayley Bath
Cassie Brown	Arthur S. Butt
Walter C. Carter	Doug Cole
Clayton D. Cook	John Feltham
Bruce Hynes
Flat Island Reunion Committee (1992)	Greenspond Come Home Year Committee 1997
REV. Charles Lench	James E. Long
Kevin Major	Bernice Morgan
Emily Wicks Mullett	Robert C. Parsons
Arthur E. Penney	Captain John Russell
R. Saunders	Harold Squires
Bruce Whiffen	Janet Penney Winsor
REV. Naboth Winsor	Unknown Authors

History of Bonavista Bay District Available Books and their Authors

ROLAND W. ABBOTT
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Million Dollar Rock
The Three Seas
L. ROY BABSTOCK
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Planted by the Waters	ISBN 0-9691026-5-8	Publishers: Hermitage Publishing Corporation, 255 MacKay St., Ottawa, Ontario For details contact: Roy Babstock
CAPTAIN JOB BARBOUR
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Forty Eight Days Adrift	0-919948-6J	Published by: Breakwater, 100 Water St., St. John's, NF
LINDA HAYLEY BATH
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
King's Cove Head - The Light Tower Way of Life	ISBN: 0-9699912-2-3	Published by Bonavista South Regional Development Association
CASSIE BROWN
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Death on the Ice The Great Sealing Disaster of 1914	0-385-05037-2	With Harold Brown, Published by Doubleday Cananda, Limited
A Winter's Tale - The Wreck of the Florizel	0-385-25178-5	Published by Doubleday Cananda, Limited
ARTHUR S. BUTT
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Telling it as it Was: A Brief History of Flat Islands and an Autobiography	1-894294-00-9	B B98 NR
WALTER C. CARTER
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Never a Dull Moment	1-894294-00-9	Creative Publishers, St. John's, NF, 1998
DOUG COLE
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Rhodes Scholars of Newfoundland	ISBN 0-9685004-3-9	Biographies of 92 of Newfoundland's Rhodes Scholars, 1904 to 2000 ESP Press Limited
CLAYTON D. COOK
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Bonavista Peninsula of Days Gone by	0-9684262-0-4	Published by Jeff Blackwood & Associates, St. John's
JOHN FELTHAM
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Bonavista Bay Revisited	0-921191-69-3	Published by Harry Cuff Publications, St. John's 971.8 F34 NR
The Islands of Bonavista Bay	0-919095-89-5	Published in Canada by Creative Printers & Publishers Limited, St. John's 971.8 F34 NR
Sealing Steamers	0-921191-98-7	Published by Harry Cuff Publications Ltd., St. John's, 1995
Setting Sail for Bonavista Bay: the Story of Nine Schooners Driven Out to Sea in the Fall of 1929		910.453 F34 NR
FLAT ISLAND REUNION COMMITTEE (1992)
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Memories of Flat Islands		Bonavista Bay (1806 - 1958)
GREENSPOND COME HOME YEAR COMMITTEE 1997
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Dogfish and Apricots: A Treasury of Greenspond's Three Hundred Years, 1697 - 1997		Published by Robinson and Blackmore, St.John's, NF 971.8 D67 NR
BRUCE HYNES
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Eastport Peninsula - A People of the Sea and Soil.	0-9687850-0-X	Printed by Eastport Peninsula Celebrations 2000.
REV. CHARLES LENCH
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Story of Methodism in Bonavista	0-919095-71-2	Printed by Harry Cuff Publications Ltd., St. John's in 1985.
JAMES E. LONG
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Hard & the Aisey - A History of Open Hall, Red Cliff and Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay	0-9681156-7-5	Published by ESP Press, Portugal Cove
KEVIN MAJOR
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
No Man's Land
BERNICE MORGAN
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Random Passage	1-55081-051-0	Published by: Breakwater, 100 Water St., St. John's, NF
EMILY WICKS MULLETT
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Making Connections	0-9686450-0-3	A fictional and factual account of my ancestors and how they lived in Bonavista Bay North. Emily Wicks Mullett
ROBERT C. PARSONS
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Survive the Savage Sea: Tales from our Ocean Heritage		includes several stories from Bonavista Bay Creative Publishers: St. John's, 1998
Toll of the Sea: Stories from the Forgotten Coast		includes a story from St. Brendan's, Bonavista Bay - How a schooner was bought via the Gerald S. Doyle Bulletin. Creative Publishers: St. John's, 1995
Raging Winds...Roaring Sea		includes twenty-seven new stories of ships and disasters from all parts of Newfoundland. Published by Creative Publishers, St. John's
ARTHUR E. PENNEY
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Nestled Between The Hills		A history of Cannings Cove, Bonavista Bay
CAPTAIN JOHN RUSSELL
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Memories of a Lifetime	0-9681156-5-9	Published by ESP Press, Portugal Cove
R. SAUNDERS
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
The Greenspond Saga in History, Song and Story		971.8 SA8 NR
HAROLD SQUIRES
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
A Newfoundland Outport in the Making: The Early History of Eastport together with an Eye-witness Account of the Greenland Disaster		971.8 S94 NR
BRUCE WHIFFIN
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Prime Berth - Port Bonavista	0-921191-82-0	Published by Harry Cuff Publications, St. John's 971.8 SA8 NR
JANET PENNEY WINSOR
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Newfoundland Nurse: A Memoir	0-9681156-9-1	ESP Press, Portugal Cove, NF 1998
REV. NABOTH WINSOR
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Building on a Firm Foundation
By Their Works - A history of the Wesleyville congregation, The Methodist Church, 1874 - 1925
The Church Between the Tickles **** A History of St. James' Anglican Church, Pool's Island, Bonavista Bay		283.718 W73 NR(folder)
Good Workmanship and Lasting Devotion **** A History of St. Stephen's Anglican Church, Greenspond, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland 1810 - 1925		Published August 1982 by B.S.C. Printers (1982) Limited, Gander, Newfoundland 283.718 W73 NR
Hearts Strangely Warmed
A History of Education in Greenspond, 1816 - 1979 **** Life and Work in Newfoundland		By the Rev. Julian Moreton, Church of England Missionary Greenspond, Newfoundland, from 1849 to 1860. A Reprint: Edited by the Rev. Naboth Winsor, Newtown, Newfoundland, 1977.
A Pilgrimage of Faith
Resounding God's Praises On Islands, In Coves ****		A History of the Methodist Church, 1862 - 1925, and the United Church of Canada, 1925 - 1990, in Settlements from Greenspond to Deadman's Bay, except Wesleyville
The Sea, Our Life-Blood, A History of Wesleyville, Newfoundland, A Project of the "Ocean View" Senior Citizens		Printed 1984, by B.S.C. Printers (1984) Limited, Gander, Newfoundland.
Skipper Parsons		edited by Rev. Naboth Winsor
Stalwart Men and Sturdy Ships, A History of the Prosecutions of the Seal Fishery by the Sealers of Bonavista Bay North, Newfoundland		Printed 1985 by Economy Printing Limited, Gander, Newfoundland 639.29 W73 NR
Three Newfoundland Stories		edited by Rev. Naboth Winsor
Through Peril, Toil and Pain, The Story of the First One Hundred Years (1825 - 1925) of the Church of England in the Northern Settlements of Greenspond Mission, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland		283.718 W73 NR
These titles are still available. For details contact: Mrs. Lynne Smith P. O. Box 574 Harbour Grace, Newfoundland A0A 2M0 Lynne Smith
BOOKS BY UNKNOWN AUTHORS
TITLE	ISBN IDENTIFIER	NOTES
Cottle's Island - Cottlesville: Memories of Yesterday		971.8 C83 NR

LOCALLY AVAILABLE PUBLICATIONS
The Gander Beacon	Published Weekly
The Greenspond Letter	Published Quarterly	Linda White, Editor

If anyone would like to contribute material to this site that could be used to help other people researching their family histories in the Bonavista District area, please feel free to e-mail the Bonavista Bay Co-coordinators. Donna Randell Emily Wicks Mullett

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Updated with Bruce Hynes Publication (Bruce Hynes - September 2007)

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