1 Albert Braz is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, specializing in Canadian literature in its inter-American contexts. He is the author of Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths (2015) and of The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture (2003). He is also the co-editor of an issue of the Canadian Review of Comparative Literature on Comparative Canadian Literature (2009) and of an issue of CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture on Indigenous Literatures (2011). He is currently working on a book on Latin America in the Canadian imagination.

2 Melvin Baker (President’s Office) is Archivist-Historian for Memorial University of Newfoundland. A graduate of Memorial University, he holds a PhD in history from the University of Western Ontario. Currently he is writing a biography of Sir William Coaker and a history of the Newfoundland salt codfish trade between 1908 and 1938.

3 Paul Chafe teaches in the Department of English at Ryerson University where he is the Teaching Team Coordinator for ssh 205: Academic Writing and Research. His past project to “flip” this introductory writing course and his current project to establish a writing workshop website have received funding from Ryerson’s Learning and Teaching Enhancement Fund (ltef ) and the National Center for Academic Transformation (ncat). He continues to write about the literature of Newfoundland and Labrador and his more recent publications include “Where the Mysterious and the Undefined Breathes and Lives: Kathleen Winter’s Annabel as an Intersex Text” in Studies in Canadian Literature and “‘If I were a rugged beauty…’: Contemporary Newfoundland Fiction” in The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature (2016).

4 Anthony Dickinson is an Honorary Research Professor, Memorial University. Prior to retirement (January 2011) he held the rank of Professor, Department of Biology, and was Acting Director of the International Centre. His PhD from the University of Cambridge, completed at the Scott Polar Research Institute, focussed on the history of sealing in the Falkland Islands and Dependencies. He gained first hand experience of whaling from the station at Grytviken, South Georgia, while working there as a sealing inspector for the government of the Falkland Islands

5 Tom Halford is a PhD Candidate at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and his dissertation is titled “Creative Writing and Ethics in Contemporary Canadian Novels: How Should an Author Be?” Tom spent roughly three years working at the State University of New York in Plattsburgh as the Assistant Director/Writing Specialist for their Learning Center. Currently, he lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and is a stay-at-home dad.

6 Ingeborg Marshall is an Honorary Research Associate with iser and the author of “A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk” (1996). She was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2005) and an honorary doctor of letters degree by Memorial University (2006). When she had found the long lost Cormack papers, Alan G. Macpherson joined her in a research project on the life of William Eppes Cormack. This article contains part of our research data.

7 Alan G. Macpherson is Professor Emeritus of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he taught from 1966-1993. His academic work in historical geography and historical demography concentrated on North Atlantic migration and settlement, and he is the editor of three volumes published by Memorial’s Department of Geography. He has devoted much of his retirement to researching the life of William Eppes Cormack and, as Seanachaidh (historian) of the Clan Macpherson, to consulting and publishing extensively on Clan history and genealogy. His monograph, A Day’s March to Ruin: a documentary narrative of the Badenoch Men in the ‘Forty-Five and biography of Col. Ewan Macpherson of Cluny, 1706-1764, was published in 1996.

8 Peter Neary is the author of “Brother Victims: Burying Casualties of War on Bell Island, Newfoundland, November 1942,” Newfoundland Ancestor, 32,1 (2016), 22–24.

9 Edward Roberts has been intimately involved in Newfoundland’s politics for more than 55 years. During his 23 years as an mha (eight victories and no losses between 1966 and 1993) he served in the Cabinets of Smallwood, Tobin (briefly), and Wells, and as Leader of the Opposition. He has long been passionately interested in Newfoundland’s history, and earned an ma in history from Memorial in 2006, whilst serving as Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. He edited Peter Cashin’s political memoirs, My Fight for Newfoundland (2012).

10 Chesley W. Sanger is professor emeritus, Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland. His interest in marine mammal exploitation includes Northern bowhead whaling, Eastern Canadian harp sealing, and the 20th century Newfoundland and Labrador shore-based whale fishery (with A.B. Dickinson). His most recent book, Scottish Arctic Whaling, was published in May 2016 by John Donald, Edinburgh.