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Death on the Ice

The Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914 · by Cassie Brown (with Harold Horwood) · 1972 · Doubleday Canada

Cover of Death on the Ice by Cassie Brown (with Harold Horwood) (1972)

Each year, for generations, poor, ill-clad Newfoundland fishermen sailed out “to the ice” to hunt seals in the hope of a few pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John’s. source

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  • Set atKing George V Institute (Water Street)

    Heritage NL — a vetted Memorial-affiliated source — explicitly identifies the King George V Institute in St. John's as the setting of the book's morgue and funeral-parade sequences.

    Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador, 'Death on the Ice: The Story That Had to be Told'source

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References

  1. 1.Blurb source — www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/19275/death-on-the-ice-by-cassie-brown/9780385685061
  2. 2.Place link (King George V Institute (Water Street)): Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador, 'Death on the Ice: The Story That Had to be Told'