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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Pre-Confederation Newfoundland and Labrador people, E. J. Pratt, General elections in pre-confederation Newfoundland, Joey Smallwood, Newfoundland general election, 1832, Shanawdithit, James Kelly, Robert Bartlett, Louisa Journeaux, Clarence Wiseman, John T. Mullock, Walter Learning, Battle of Signal Hill, Harold Horwood, Demasduit, Frederick Gordon Bradley, Craig Dobbin, John Murray Anderson, George John Bond, Al Pittman, Thomas Ricketts, Rex Murphy, Geoff Stirling, Ann Harvey, Jens Haven, Newfoundland general election, 1869, Donald Brian, David Blackwood, Sylvester Joe, William Colston, John Rut, George MacDonnell, Charles R. Bowring, Gerald Squires, Hugh Abercrombie Anderson, Nonosbawsut, Christopher Pratt, Myra Louise Taylor, Dick Nolan, Harry Hibbs, Percival Willoughby, Otto Tucker, Daniel Woodley Prowse, United Irish Uprising, Sara Kirke, John Wallace Thomas, Rae Perlin, Al Clouston, Mikak, Frances Cluett, Patrick Doyle, Eric Blackwood, John Bartlett Angel, Danny Corcoran, Vincent P. Bryan, Armine Nutting Gosling, Lewis H.M. Ayre, John Anderson, Harry Brown, William Carson, John Bingley Garland, William James Herder, William James Emberley, James Baird, Lester Burry, Legislative Council of Newfoundland, Johnny Burke, John Slany, Black Monday, Jonathan Ogden, Bait Act, L. E. Emerson. Excerpt: Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC (February 4, 1882 - April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry, he has been called "the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century." EJ Pratt was born Edwin John Dove Pratt in Western Bay, Newfoundland, on February 4, 1882. He was brought up in a variety of Newfoun...