Catherine's post brought back some memories for me ... A wonderful and influential part of my childhood was sitting (or standing!) around with the family singing songs from that same Newfoundland songbook. We were Maritimers - as opposed to Newfoundlanders - transplanted to Ontario, but those songs seemed to nurture our connection and memories of our relatives, ancestors, and our former life on the east coast (literally - we were right on the water ... ). In my later role as a folksinger, those songs were prominent in my repertoire, and so they remain.