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Newfoundland Disasters

by (author) Jack Fitzgerald

Publisher
Creative Book Publishing
Initial publish date
Nov 2004
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781894294805
    Publish Date
    Nov 2004
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Newfoundland Disasters, one of several Canadian best-sellers by Jack Fitzgerald, has been revised to include a new chapter on deadly avalanches and winter storms. This book updates the 1942 unsolved mystery of the Knights of Columbus arson which claimed 99 lives, and offers a possible solution to the crime.

About the author

Jack Fitzgerald was born and educated in St. John's, Newfoundland. During his career he has been a journalist, a feature writer and political columnist with the St. John's Daily News; a reporter and public affairs writer with CJON and VOCM News Services; editor of the Newfoundland Herald and the Newfoundland Chronicle. During the last years of the Smallwood administration he was assistant director of Public Relations with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. He has also worked as Assistance Officer with the Department of Social Services. Jack Fitzgerald also hosted a regular radio program featuring off-beat Newfoundland stories on radio station VOFM.

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