Memories of Sandy Point, St George's Bay, Newfoundland

Melvin Baker is an archivist and historian at Memorial University of
Newfoundland, and the co-editor of Dictionary of Newfoundland and
Labrador Biography.

Sandy Point chronicles the childhood and early working years of
75-year-old Charles Pieroway, as told to his daughter, Phyllis, in 1995.
Spanning the 1910s to the 1940s, Pieroway’s remembrances centre on the
small community of Sandy Point. Located on Newfoundland’s west coast,
the community is one of many that fell victim to the Newfoundland
government’s resettlement program in the 1960s. In addition to
Pieroway’s school years and work in the lobster, herring, salmon, and
smelt fisheries, we learn about the close social and economic
relationship that once existed between the people of the island’s west
coast and St. Pierre and Miquelon, the Canadian Maritimes, and the New
England states. Rich in useful insights into the working life of one
ordinary Canadian, this book demonstrates the need for more such
accounts.