Author Ted Rowe on how ex-Newfoundland PM Robert Bond became ‘the greatest’ Islander

Ted Rowe is shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust’s Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for his book Robert Bond: The Greatest Newfoundlander.

Author Ted Rowe chronicles the life of former Newfoundland prime minister Robert Bond in his book nominated for the $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, awarded annually for a nonfiction work.Photograph courtesy of the Writers' Trust of Canada

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BY TED ROWE

April 18, 2018

The banking crisis of 1894 had been building for years. Newfoundland’s two commercial banks were unregulated, and they had been allowed to deplete their cash reserves and borrow, from the government Savings Bank and lenders in England, to fund their loans. St. John’s fish merchants appointed as ...

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