Map showing the location of Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Fogo Island

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Map location of Fogo Island

Scenes set here

  • The Co-operative Movement in Newfoundland

    Donald Snowden

    Fogo Island 'merits special attention by the Newfoundland Co-operative Union.' [Memorial University Extension Service] 'has embarked upon a broad program, most of whose componen…

Books here

  • Cover of Four for Fogo Island by Kevin Major
    settingFour for Fogo Island

    Kevin Major

    Breakwater publisher copy explicitly anchors the inciting murder to a specific Fogo Island fabric/quilt shop.

  • Cover of Sweetland by Michael Crummey
    subjectSweetland

    Michael Crummey

    Pendergast (2016, peer-reviewed) explicitly identifies the novel's fictional Sweetland and Little Sweetland as modeled on Fogo Island and Little Fogo Island. Crummey's Hazlitt interview ties the plot to his Adventure Canada work in resettlement-resistant outports — the cultural narrative most strongly associated with Fogo Island.

  • subjectThe Co-operative Movement in Newfoundland

    Donald Snowden

    Snowden's 1965 ARDA study singled out Fogo Island for cooperative organisation; the verbatim wording survives in Newhook's open-access peer-reviewed 'Godfathers of Fogo' article (Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 2009). The same monograph notes Memorial University Extension Service's groundwork that, two years later, would become the Fogo Process.

References

  1. 1.Four for Fogo Island: Breakwater Books product page, Four for Fogo Island (2022)
  2. 2.Sweetland: Pendergast, 'A Man and His Island: The Island Mirror in Michael Crummey's Sweetland,' Island Studies Journal (2016); cross-referenced with Anna Fitzpatrick, 'In the Company of the Dead — an Interview with Michael Crummey,' Hazlitt (2014)
  3. 3.The Co-operative Movement in Newfoundland: Donald Snowden, The Co-operative Movement in Newfoundland: An ARDA Study (Co-operative Union of Canada, 1965), as quoted in Susan Newhook, 'The Godfathers of Fogo,' Newfoundland and Labrador Studies 24:2 (2009)