Silk Sails (38 page)
Tiger
,
109
Tite, Elizabeth,
138
Tobin, Eliza Anne,
173
Tobin, Mrs. Patrick,
46
Topsail Girl Second
,
142
Toque, Ann (Howell),
73
,
97
,
111
,
116
,
118
,
129
,
217
See also under Howell Tree, Widow,
71
Treworgie, Mrs. John,
61
Trinity North
,
191
Trio
,
174
Tuck, Maria,
176
Tucker, Frances,
216
Twin Brothers
,
96
Two Brothers
,
82
Tyro
,
113
Ulelia
,
24
Uncle Bob
,
93
United Brothers
,
87
Vallis, Selina Frances,
191
Verron, Mary J.,
40
Vigilant
,
181
Vinsen, Joanna,
202
Voisy, Mary Ann,
39
Voy, Wife of George,
209
W. J. Phillips
,
91
Wabby
,
117
Wade, Catherine,
179
Wakeham, Elizabeth Vallance,
114
,
116
,
146
Walker, Grace,
212
Wall, Mother-in-law of John,
208
Wall, Mary,
207
Walsh, Margaret,
137
Wamboldt, Capt. Ivy,
57
Ware, Widow,
75
Wareham, Eva,
152
Warr, Lillian,
187
Webber, Elizabeth & Sons,
74
,
201
,
219
,
220
Webister, Wife of Charles,
204
Wedgeport Lad
,
135
Weir, Mamie,
152
Wells, Alice,
106
Wells, Mother of Jas. and Wm.,
209
Wesley, Susannah,
162
West, Mary Maria,
116
Wetmore, Wife of Justus,
166
Whealon, Mary,
208
Wheaton, Mary,
73
Whirlwind
,
26
White Gull
,
184
Whiteford, Isabella See under Rogerson
Whiteley, Louisa A.,
116
,
146
,
176
Whiteway, Mother-in-law of William,
204
Williams, Eliza Azelia,
23
Williams, Mary,
216
Williams, Thomazene (“Tamzen”),
25
Willie
,
84
Willie & Ross
,
190
Willis C.
,
176
Winnie F. Tuck
,
105
Winsor, Amelia Jane,
131
Winsor, Caroline,
53
,
99
,
104
,
108
Winsor, Frances,
142
Winsor, Lillian Frances,
121
Winsor, Olivia Emma,
192
Winter, Adelaide,
193
Wiscombe, Gladys Marion,
191
Wood, Widow,
63
Woodley, Elizabeth,
82
Woodley, Mary,
82
Woodrow Wilson
,
178
Yarn, Margaret,
133
Yarn, Mary (Boone),
31
,
32
,
33
122
,
134
,
159
,
165
Yarn, Stella,
32
Youden, Una May,
134
Young, Emily,
184
Young Hood
,
183
Zephyr
,
96
Zipper
,
188
My thanks are due to many people and several institutions. I am grateful to McGill University for awarding me a full-year sabbatical leave to undertake the research for this book and to the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER) at Memorial University of Newfoundland for awarding me a research grant to visit about 20 communities in Newfoundland.
I am grateful to Heather Wareham, Archivist at the Maritime History Archive at Memorial University, and to all her staff for their invaluable assistance, and to Heather, in particular, for arranging for me to give a lecture to Maritime historians and other interested parties in 1994. Thanks go as well to: Professors Valerie Burton and Daniel Vickers of the Maritime Studies Research Unit and the Department of History at Memorial University for their support and encouragement; staff at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies and their archives at Memorial University; staff in the Reference Department at the Newfoundland Public Libraries at the St. John's Arts & Culture Centre; staff at the Newfoundland Provincial Archives; staff at the McGill University Libraries; staff at the National Archives of Canada in Ottawa; curators and other staff at various museums in Newfoundland; Betty Williams at the Registrar of Shipping in St. John's; Trudi Johnson, who was in 1994 a Ph.D. student at Memorial University and who provided much valuable information on property ownership by women.
Additionally, I would like to thank: Professor Gordon Handcock, Professor Chris English, and Professor Lewis R. Fischer at Memorial University for valuable advice and encouragement; Professor Carmen Miller at McGill University for inviting me to lecture on this subject to his history class; McGill University Libraries for
sponsoring a public lecture on the topic in 1995; Clifford Evans, Curator of the Mary March Museum at Grand Falls-Windsor, for arranging a public lecture in the museum in 1994; retired Professor Otto Tucker of Memorial University for inviting me to lecture at the Wessex Society in St. John's in February 2005; and finally, staff at the public libraries in Botwood, Gander and Grand Falls-Windsor for facilitating access to research and archival information for this project.
I am especially grateful to the many people who welcomed me unannounced into their homes on the south-west coast, the south coast, the Burin Peninsula, Glovertown and the east coast of Newfoundland. I suppose there is no other place in all the world where one can be so readily accepted and warmly received and never made to feel that one is intruding. My wife accompanied me on most of the visits, and on those occasions when she waited in the car, reading a book, she was routinely invited into a nearby house for a chat and a cup of tea. I was looking only for information but I came away feeling that total strangers had become friends.
I supplemented these visits by sending a standardized questionnaire to other Newfoundland communities simply by selecting from the telephone directory a person by the same name as the woman shipowner. I was especially pleased with the enthusiastic and helpful responses. Some even followed up those initial responses with new and additional information and pictures.
As a final note, I would like to thank my wife Goldie for her patience and long suffering and strong support throughout this project. She has done without me for many long hours through many months and now will be able to stop asking the question: “Are you finished yet?” I appreciate her endurance.
To all those who helped in any way, my heartfelt gratitude.
CALVIN D. EVANS
retired from dual careers as a university librarian and a United Church minister. He had a 30-year career as a library administrator at Memorial University of Newfoundland, University of Guelph in Ontario, University of Alberta in Edmonton, and McGill University in Montreal. In 2005 he celebrated his 50th year of ordination and since 1949 has served churches in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. Naturally, the two careers overlapped.
He is author of two books:
For Love of a Woman: The Evans Family and a Perspective on Shipbuilding in Newfoundland
, published in 1992 by Harry Cuff Publications, St. John's, and
Soren Kierkegaard Bibliographies
, published in 1993 by McGill University. He has also written several articles and has been a contributing writer to seven volumes of the
Dictionary of Canadian Biography
and to the
Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
. In 2005 he wrote the biographies of fifteen Newfoundland women for the Grand Falls-Windsor chapter of the Council on the Status of Women.
Calvin has an avid interest in Newfoundland history and is completing the book
Women of the Maritime Provinces and Quebec and Their Ships
and is working on another book
Virtual Communities: Early Sawmills in Northeastern and Central Newfoundland
. He was a member of the Botwood Heritage Society for ten years, and is now living with his wife Goldie at Wasaga Beach, Ontario.