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Item Information       More Content     More by this author     Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bowring, Derrick, 1916-2009.       by title:      Down to Bowring's : ...       by call number:      381.141 B788d     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

Down to 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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