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
Places
- 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
