Identifier: newfoundlandin00mcgr (find matches)
Title: Newfoundland in 1911, being the coronation year of King George V. and the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: McGrath, P. T. (Patrick Thomas), b. 1868
Subjects: Newfoundland and Labrador
Publisher: London : Whitehead, Morris & Co., Ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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