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With the exception of one or two outports in France, and an occasional visit to Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Deal, he had in reality seen no more of mankind, however, than if he had been riding a donkey in one of his native mines.

Of course, Peacock's Outports is just one of several books of Newfoundland song published and embraced by Newfoundlanders during the mid-twentieth century.

The sprinkling of dialects enrich the conversations between the "townie" and those in the outports. Sullivan-Fraser's vivid account of Johnny's first flight experience helps readers to see, hear, smell and feel what it was like to be in the air in the Gipsy Moth.

It was an era where Newfoundland outports were closed, Inuit moved from camps to larger centres, and huge urban relocation projects were the order of the day; Africville, for example, accounted for less than 10% of the population relocated in Halifax.

(11) There is no mystery here; to see the power of fish merchants in the history of Newfoundland outports is something like being able to hit the broad side of a barn.

There were narrow definitions about what a real Newfoundlander was; all of a sudden pedigrees from outports were sought and touted up.

Population, particularly in the outports, has declined.

We would visit nineteen coastal outports in a dozen days.

Norway fixed up its poor indigenous and non-indigenous northern outports and hinterlands in a generation, but that sort of Nordic political will has not been seen in Anglophone countries except episodically in New Zealand and parts of the Canadian North.

Some from remote outports had never been away from home.

The practice of medicine in outports did present challenges, however.

In the outports that dot the coastline of rural Newfoundland, the individual church buildings are a key part of local identity.