Acadiensis, Volumes 8-9Department of History, University of New Brunswick., 1978 - Atlantic Provinces Journal of the history of the Atlantic region. |
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The detailed examination which follows of boarding houses , shipping offices , and sailors ' homes is designed to elucidate the major features of social and economic control in nineteenth - century sailortown . The boarding house keeper ...
The detailed examination which follows of boarding houses , shipping offices , and sailors ' homes is designed to elucidate the major features of social and economic control in nineteenth - century sailortown . The boarding house keeper ...
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One underworld figure was Nicholas Berrigan , a Newfoundlander of “ bad character ” and a boarding house keeper on Upper Water street , the heart of Halifax's sailortown . He was accused in 1876 of being one of a gang of harbour pirates ...
One underworld figure was Nicholas Berrigan , a Newfoundlander of “ bad character ” and a boarding house keeper on Upper Water street , the heart of Halifax's sailortown . He was accused in 1876 of being one of a gang of harbour pirates ...
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legislation left the boarding house keeper to extend credit to his boarder without the security of a note guaranteeing reimbursement out of the sailor's advance earnings . If and when the boarding master secured the note he still might ...
legislation left the boarding house keeper to extend credit to his boarder without the security of a note guaranteeing reimbursement out of the sailor's advance earnings . If and when the boarding master secured the note he still might ...
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