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02590aam a2200325 i 4500 |
| CONTROL NUMBER |
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on1111471866 |
| CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OCoLC |
| DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20190826091537.0 |
| FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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190801s2019 oncabf b 001 0 eng d |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781443452021 (hardcover) |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1443452025 (hardcover) |
| CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
BDP |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
BDP |
| Modifying agency |
CaBVa |
| LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
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| Holding library |
VP@A |
| AUTHOR NAME |
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| AUTHOR NAME |
MacIntyre, Linden, |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The wake : |
| Remainder of title |
the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Linden MacIntyre. |
| EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 371 pages, 16 pages of plates : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations, maps ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm. |
| GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
On November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula. Giant waves, up to three storeys high, hit the coast at a hundred kilometres per hour, flooding dozens of communities and washing entire houses out to sea. The most destructive earthquake-related event in Newfoundland's history, the disaster killed twenty-eight people and left hundreds more homeless or destitute. It took days for the outside world to find out about the death and damage caused by the tsunami, which forever changed the lives of the inhabitants of the fishing outports along the Burin Peninsula. Linden MacIntyre was born near St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, one of the villages virtually destroyed by the tsunami. By the time of his birth, the cod-fishing industry lay in ruins and the village had become a mining town. MacIntyre's father, lured from Cape Breton to Newfoundland by a steady salary, worked in St. Lawrence in an underground mine that was later found to be radioactive. Hundreds of miners would die; hundreds more would struggle through shortened lives profoundly compromised by lung diseases ranging from silicosis and bronchitis to cancer. As MacIntyre says, though the tsunami killed twenty-eight people in 1929, it would claim hundreds if not thousands more lives in the decades to follow. And by the time the village returned to its roots and set up as a cod fishery once again, the stocks in the Grand Banks had plummeted and St. Lawrence found itself once again on the brink of disaster. |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Tsunamis |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
12. Miscellaneous |
| LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
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971.8 MCI |
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410 |
