A Newfoundland Fishing Hamlet: Effects of Isolation on Social and Economic Life in Budden's Cove, Newfoundland

For several centuries of fishermen of Newfoundland and their families have lived in outport hamlets, shut off from the world and from the larger community of which they are a part politically. There they have eked out a bare subsistence from the fish in the adjoining waters and the wood in the adjoining forests.