Twenty-seven dead. Staggering property losses. Triggered by an offshore earthquake on the Grand Banks, a tsunami unleashed its fury on the coastline of the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland, killing twenty-seven people and destroying homes and fishing premises in fifty outports. Here is the dramatic, incredible story of the South Coast Disaster of 1929, the superhuman efforts of Nurse Dorothy Cherry to save the sick and dying, and Magistrate Malcolm Hollett’s tireless campaign to rebuild… source
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“She might even let the children have some molasses, though, like all the women in Lord's Cove and the rest of the communities on the coast, she had to spare it along through the winter… Her father still lived next door to her in Lord's Cove, alongside The Pond on the eastern side of the cove. Across the harbour in Lord's Cove, a group of fishermen played cards at Prosper Walsh's.”
Hanrahan opens the book with an extended scene set in Lord's Cove on the eve of the 18 Nov 1929 tsunami; the publisher's official excerpt names the place repeatedly.
Maura Hanrahan, Tsunami (Flanker Press, 2004), publisher EXCERPT tab — source
