The demand for oil to light and lubricate the industrial world changed the face of much of the planet. Newfoundland, Canda was part of this widespread transformation as migratory cod fishermen settled there in the early 1800s in order to hunt seals in late winter and early spring. The seal fishery brought prosperity and growth and shaped this new society, but seal hunters and their families paid a heavy human cost in lives lost and suffering experienced. The traditional oil industries were doomed with the discovery of mineral oils and the harnesssing of electricity, and Newfoundland -along with other societies- faced painful adjustments while searching for alternative industries. However, while its place in the economy declined, the seal fishery left an indelible imprint on Newfoundland's culture and identity. This study, with its tables, maps and illustrations, examines the history of the Newfoundland seal fishery from its origins up to 1914, ranging in scope from the life of the hunter on the ice floes to the demands of the consumer in the market place.
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"In this absorbing study Dr. Shannon Ryan provides for the Newfoundland sealing industry what his 1986 Fish Out Water did for the saltfish trade...The Ice Hunter is suberb resource history as well as the history of a society and its people and their identity in political terms through colonial, putative Dominion, and Canadian Province. I recommend it very warmly." -- George M. Story
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Shannon Ryan was born and received his early education in Riverhead, Harbour Grace (Canada). He has studied at Memorial University of Newfoundland (B.A., M.A.), the University of London (Ph.D) and the University of Oslo. He worked for some time as a school teacher in Canada and is presently Associate Professor of History at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His areas of research and publication are Newfoundland fisheries history and newfoundland oral history.
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