The Fighting Newfoundlander (Volume 209) (Carleton Library Series) - Softcover

Nicholson, Gerald W.L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773532064 ISBN 13: 9780773532069

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007

Synopsis

When the First World War began, Newfoundland had been without a military organization for almost half a century. The citizens formed themselves into a Patriotic Association and within 60 days had dispatched 537 officers and men overseas. This text is a vivid history of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment and its contributions to the war effort.

About this title

About the Author

Colonel Gerald W.L. Nicholson (1902-1980) served with the Prince Albert Volunteers. He is the author of The Canadians in Italy, 1943-1945 and Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919, both part of the official history of the Canadian Army.

From the Back Cover

The Carleton Library Series is an enduring and significant initiative to publish and reissue documents and texts important to the history of the place we now call Canada. Begun in the 1950s at Carleton University, the series was intended to be a non-fiction counterpart to the New Canadian Library. In the new millennium the motivations for, and thus the mandate of, the series have shifted. While the CLS remains committed to humanities and social science research on the long histories of the territory called Canada, it now takes as its primary purpose the reimaging of how Canada understands itself. The series does not seek to define what Canada should be but rather invites scholars working on questions about the country's history, present, and future to reassess persistent mythologies and to imagine just shared futures. The CLS publishes books that engage in the transformative diversification of knowledge; that examine local and regional knowledges and experiences; that explore the relation of Canada to the world within and across borders; and that draw on a range of disciplines, theoretical traditions, methodologies, and epistemologies.

The CLS publishes original manuscripts and reissues out-of-print materials that are accompanied by new scholarly introductions and other editorial apparatuses. Manuscript proposals may be sent to the editorial board chair, Jody Mason, at jody.mason@carleton.ca or to any member of the editorial board.

CLS board members: Martha Attridge Bufton, Vandna Bhatia, Sheryl Hamilton, Jennifer Henderson, Laura Madokoro, Jody Mason, Pat Moore

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773532064
• ISBN 13: 9780773532069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 658