Joseph R. Smallwood

Joseph R. Smallwood: Smallwood uses Brig Cove as the example for the whole country of Newfoundland and lays out the character of the people there; what they are up against, what motivates them, what they know and do not know. He exposes our shortcomings and our great inborn assets, according to The Telegram. Smallwood also talks about land how we cleared it, fenced it and valued it; how we subdivided it to leave parcels to our sons. He notes that many of us were land hungry to the point of greed and In a remarkable essay written, I presume, in 1936 Joseph R. Smallwood describes Life today in Newfoundland. In the essay we are like the rest of the Western World in a depression; and we are also a couple of years into Commission of Government suspension of democracy, as some have it . Smallwoods exceptional fisherman shows what a man can/must do and it shows as well that there is every good reason why he cannot stop from one day to the next; one season to the next. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.