Family Names of the Island of Newfoundland
ISBN: 9780773567412
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Names Personal -- Newfoundland; Onomastics -- Newfoundland; Newfoundland -- Genealogy;

The only dictionary of surnames in Canada.


E.R. Seary (1908-1984) was professor and head of the English department at Memorial University, 1954-70. His other publications include The Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland: An Ethno-Linguistic Study, with G.M. Story and W.J. Kirwin, and Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland.

William Kirwin is professor emeritus of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland

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