Governor Sir Humphrey Walwyn’s Account of the 17 June 1939 Royal Visit to Newfoundland

Melvin Baker 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, 1908–39. He is co-author (with Raymond B. Blake) of Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Confederation (University of Regina Press, 2019), and co-author (with Peter Neary) of Joseph Roberts Smallwood: Masthead Newfoundlander, 1900–1949 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021).

Peter Neary is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. His article "'Terrific Weight of Rock Above Me': Alan Caswell Collier's Mining Art" will be published in the Fall 2022 issue of Ontario History.