Abstract
LABRADOR has a considerable literature of its own, as the full bibliography in this volume shows, but it is mainly concerned with the coastal regions which constituted that part of Labrador under the rule of Newfoundland. In 1927 the Privy Council brought within Newfoundland–Labrador the Atlantic drainage, leaving the remainder to Canada. Thus an area of about 100,000 square miles is a dependency of the former dominion of Newfoundland. The two large and beautifully illustrated volumes of this work, originally printed in Finland in Acta Geographica, do not claim to present a completely co-ordinated geography of Labrador. They contain rather the raw materials of such a work, from which much can be deduced. But the work is admittedly incomplete, partly because of the vastness of the area and partly because the second expedition of Prof. Tanner in 1939 was interrupted by the outbreak of war. It is, however, of interest to note that Prof. Tanner, versed in the conditions of Finland, sees no reason why much of Labrador should not eventually be colonized, even if it cannot become a self-supporting agricultural country.
Outlines of the Geography, Life and Customs of Newfoundland–Labrador (the Eastern Part of the Labrador Peninsula)
Prof.
V.
Tanner
Based upon Observations made during the Finland–Labrador Expedition in 1937, and the Tanner Labrador Expedition in 1939, and upon Information available in the Literature and Cartography. By. Vol. 1. Pp. ii + 436. Vol. 2. Pp. ii + 437–909. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1947.) 2 vols., 50s. net.
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Outlines of the Geography, Life and Customs of Newfoundland–Labrador (the Eastern Part of the Labrador Peninsula). Nature 160, 735 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160735d0
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