Arriving in St. John's in the middle of the Great Depression, Derrick Bowring discovered an island whose vistas and people would capture his heart. Sent to Newfoundland to join Bowring Brothers Ltd. and learn the retail end of the family business, his work with the company would take him into logging communities, outports and up to the ice fields. His memoir offers a mercantile history of St. source
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- AboutBowring's — 277 Water Street↗
A merchant's memoir of life on Water Street through Depression, war, and Confederation.
Breakwater Books product page for Down to Bowring's; 'life on Water Street.' — source
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