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Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.
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Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Bowring (Firm)
Businesspeople -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- Biography.
Department stores -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
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Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Bowring (Firm)
Businesspeople -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- Biography.
Department stores -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John's -- History.
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Bowring
's : a
memoir
/ Derrick
Bowring
; edited by Amy
Bowring
; foreword by John Crosbie.
by
Bowring
, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Creative Publishers, 2015.
Call #:
381.141 B788d
Subjects
Bowring
, Derrick, 1916-2009.
Bowring
(Firm)
Businesspeople -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John'
s
-- Biography.
Department stores -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John'
s
-- History.
Family-owned business enterprises -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- St. John'
s
-- History.
ISBN:
9781771030618 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Bowring
's : a
memoir
Description:
xiv, 141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Some copies may be permabound.
Summary:
A mercantile history of one of the most recognized and successful department stores in downtown St. John'
s
, NL. How the family business evolved from a watch and clock-making company to become a major economic force in Newfoundland. Born in Liverpool, Derrick
Bowring
(1916-2009) arrived in St. John'
s
in 1935 to join
Bowring
Brothers Ltd. and learn the retail side of the family business. His work with the company would take him into logging communities, outports and up to the ice fields. His
memoir
offers a mercantile history of St. John'
s
in the mid-twentieth century providing stories of life on Water Street during economic depression, a world war, Confederation and the business management shifts of the 1960s. His
memoir
is punctuated with colourful stories of the people he encountered such as Sealing Captain Al Blackwood, Premier Joey Smallwood and King George VI.
Genre:
Memoirs.
Other authors:
Bowring
, Amy.
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