 | Place Names of the Avalon Peninsula of the Island of Newfoundland This book looks at history through a broad, systematic study of the place names of one of the first European settlements in North America. It is rich in quotations from old literature, and it delves into the origins of such evocative names as Butter Pot, Burst Heart Hill, and Mistaken Point. Seary E.R. : E.R. SEARY (PH D, University of Sheffield) was Professor and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Memorial University in Newfoundland from 1953 to 1970. He is now Henrietta Harvey Professor of English at Memorial. His published works include The Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland: An Ethnolinguistic Study. |
