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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: wake
    sub title: the deadly legacy of a Newfoundland tsunami
  name:
    name part: MacIntyre, Linden
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  note: Linden MacIntyre.
  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 kilometers 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. Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning writer 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, while 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.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-nf
  subject:
    topic: Tsunamis
    geographic: Newfoundland and Labrador
    geographic: Burin Peninsula
  subject:
    geographic: Burin Peninsula (N.L.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: 363.34/9
  identifier: 9781443452021
  identifier: 1443452025
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 190801
    record change date: 20200729071943.0
    record identifier: in00004087025
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng