The 19th century Newfoundland seal fishery and the influence of Scottish whalemen

The origins of the contemporary Newfoundland Harp and Hooded Seal fisheries can be traced back to the 16th and 17th centuries when ‘Biscainers’ (Spanish Basques) hunted whales, walrus and seals in the Gulf of St Lawrence and along the southern coast of Labrador (Prowse, 1895, p 43; Barkham, 1978). Throughout the next 400 years, as the seal fishery developed—both the landsmen and vessel operations—it became a major influence on the spread and character of settlement over a large area of Newfoundland and Labrador. By the middle of the 19th century, the large off-shore vessel operation had assumed the dominant role, and its contribution to the overall economic growth was second only to the cod fishery

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• Environmental factors affecting 17th–19th century whaling in the Greenland Sea

  Open Access•Chesley W Sanger•Polar Record•1991

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• Bowhead whaling in Davis Strait and Baffin Bay during the 18th and 19th Centuries

  Open Access•Richard Vaughan•Polar Record•1986

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• Newfoundland in 1842 a sequel to "The Canadas in 1841."

  Richard Henry Bonnycastle•Newfoundland in 1842•1842

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• Eighteenth Century Newfoundland

  C Grant Head•Eighteenth Century Newfoundland•1976

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• The Annual Catch of Greenland (Bowhead) Whales in Waters North of Canada 1719-1915

  Open Access•W Gillies Ross•ARCTIC•1979

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• The peopling of Newfoundland. Essays in historical geography

  Open Access•Peter Neary•Journal of Historical Geography•1980

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• A Voyage to the Arctic in the Whaler Aurora

  Robert M Brown, David Moore Lindsay•Bulletin of the American…•1912

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• A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies

  Abbé Raynal•Philosophical and Political…•2022

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• A History of Newfoundland, from the English, Colonial, and Foreign Records

  Goldwin Smith, D W Prowse•The American Historical Review•1895

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• Joseph Banks in Newfoundland and Labrador 1766. His Diary, Manuscripts and Collections

  N L Bor, A M Lysaght et al.•Geographical Journal•1972

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• The Arctic Whalers

  Basil Lubbock•Geographical Journal•1938

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