91亚色

Chesley W. Sanger

Professor Emeritus
Department of Geography
91亚色 of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3X9

Office: SN 2024
Tel: (709) 864-8992
Fax: (709) 864-3119

Home: P.O. Box 478
Ocean Pond
Whitbourne, NL
Canada
A0B 3K0

Tel. (709) 682-4887
E mail: csanger[at]mun[dot]ca

Research Interests

  • Historical geography and marine resources
  • Scottish Arctic whale fishery, 1750-1801.
  • Newfoundland seal fishery, 19th and 20th centuries.
  • Newfoundland shore based whaling.
  • Northern and Scottish whaling.

Selected Publications

Categories (not mutually exclusive): i) Scottish Arctic Whaling; ii) Newfoundland and Labrador Whaling; iii) Newfoundland Harp Seal Fishery; iv) Newfoundland: History/Culture/Heritage; and v) Miscellaneous

Scottish Arctic Whaling

  • 2020 Scottish Arctic Whaling (1750-WWI): A Digitized Statistical Profile -
  • 2016 Scottish Arctic Whaling, Edinburgh, John Donald.  Winner of the "Keith Matthews Award-Best Canadian Book, 2016," Canadian Nautical Research Society; and short-listed for the "Best Researched Book, 2016," Saltire Society Award, Scotland.
  • 2012 淭he Rise of Scotland to a Position of Dominance in British Northern Whaling: 1802- 1840, International Journal of Maritime History, 24, No. 1, 173-202.
  • 2010 淭he Role of Foreign Experts in the Revival of Scottish Northern Whaling, 1750-1784,淢ariners Mirror, 96, No. 3, 295-302.
  • 2008 淧rologue to Scottish Domination of Northern Whaling: The Role of the French Revolutionary War (1793-1801), International Journal of Maritime History, 20, No. 1, 97-114.
  • 淪cottish Northern Whaling and Sealing in Coull, J.R., Fenton, A. and Veitch, K. (eds.), Boats, Fishing and the Sea, Vol. 4, Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology, Edinburgh: John Donald, 389-458.
  • 2007 淪cottish Over-Wintering Whaling at Cumberland Gulf, Baffin Island: 1853-90, International Journal of Maritime History, 19, No. 2, 161-99.
  • 2003 湙Oil is an Indispensable Necessity of Life: The Impact of Oscillating Oil and Baleen (Bone) prices on Cyclical Variations in the Scale and Scope of Northern Commercial Whaling, 1600-1900, International Journal of Maritime History, 15, No. 2, 147-158.
  • 2000 淭he Impact of the American Revolutionary War on Scottish Northern Whaling: The Dunbar Factor, Northern Scotland, Vol. 20, 71-86.
  • 1997 淭he Greenland Right Whale (Bowhead) An Assessment of the Biological Basis of the Northern Whale Fishery during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries in Wheatley, H. (ed.), Agriculture, Resource Exploitation and Environmental Change, Aldershot, Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
  • 1995 淭he Origins of British Whaling: Pre-1750 English and Scottish Involvement in the Northern Whale Fishery, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 5, No. 3, 15-32.
  • 1994 湙Dodging in the Bight, A Good Place for a Whale: Environmental Factors Affecting 18th and 19th Century Whaling at Davis Strait, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 4, No. 1, 17-33.
  • 湙We are now in a Splendid Position for Whales: Environmental Factors Affecting 19th Century Whaling in Baffin Bay, The Mariner檚 Mirror, 80, No. 2, 159-77.
  • 1991 湙On Good Fishing Ground But Too Early for Whales I Think: The Impact of Greenland Right Whale (Bowhead) Migration Patterns on Hunting Strategies Employed in the Northern Whale Fishery during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, The American Neptune, 51, No. 4, 221-40.
  • Environmental Factors Affecting 17-19th Century Whaling in the Greenland Sea, Polar Record, 27(161), 77-86.
  • 淐hanging Resources and Hunting Locations of Scottish Whaling-Sealing Vessels in the Second Half of the 19th Century, Scottish Geographical Magazine, 107, No. 3, 187-97.
  • 湙Saw Several Finners but No Whales: The Greenland Right Whale (Bowhead) An Assessment of the Biological Basis of the Northern Whale Fishery during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, International Journal of Maritime History, 111, No. 1, 127-54.
  • 1988 淭he Dundee-St. John檚 Connection: Nineteenth Century Interlinkages between Scottish Arctic Whaling and the Newfoundland Seal Fishery, Newfoundland Studies 4, No. 1, 1-26.
  • 1986 淭he Origins of the Scottish Northern Whale Fishery, Ph.D. thesis, Geography, University of Dundee.

Newfoundland and Labrador Shore-Station Whaling: 1898-1972 (with A.B. Dickinson, Biology, 91亚色 of Newfoundland)

  • 2018 After the Basques: The Whaling Stations of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL: DRC Publications.
  • 2016 淭he Whaling Station at Hawke Harbour, Labrador: A Case Study in the Unsustainable Exploitation of Marine Natural Resources, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 31, No. 1.
  • 2010 淚nterfamilial Relationships in Early 20th Century Whaling: A Newfoundland-Norway Case Study in Jan Erik Ringstad (ed.), Whaling and History 111, Kommandor Chr. Christensens Hvalfangst Museum, Sandefjord, Norway, 149-60.
  • 20th Century Whaling in the Western North Atlantic: The Labrador Industry in Jan Erik Ringstad (ed.), Kommandor Chr. Christensens Hvalfangst Museum, Sandefjord, Norway.
  • 2009 淣ewfoundland Involvement in Early 20th Century Shore-Station Whaling in Japan in Hayato Sakurai (ed.), The Last Harpooner: The End of Old Whaling, and an Introduction of American and Norwegian Whaling, Taiji, Japan, 52-60.
  • 2005 Twentieth-Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador, Montreal: McGill-Queen檚 University Press (Winner of the Keith Matthews Prize Best Canadian book, Canadian Nautical Research Society).
  • 淐ommercial Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador: An Historical Overview, Newfoundland Quarterly, 98, No. 2, 28-31.
  • 2000 Norwegian Whaling in Newfoundland: The Aquaforte Station and the Ellefsen Family,1902-08, St. John檚, NL, International Maritime Economic History Association, Research in Maritime History No. 20.
  • 淣ewfoundland and Labrador Shore-Station Whaling: Over Expansion and Decline: 1905-1917. The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 10, No. 4, 13-38.
  • 1999 淣ewfoundland and Labrador Shore-Station Whaling: The Final Demise, 1951-1972, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 9, No. 3, 39-52.
  • 淣ewfoundland and Labrador Shore-Station Whaling: The Third Major Phase, 1937-1951, International Journal of Maritime History, 11, No. 1, 101-16.
  • 淐ommercial Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website (NLHWS), http://www.heritage.nf.ca.
  • 1998 淭rinity Involvement in Modern Shore-Station Whaling, The Newfoundland Quarterly, Vol. XC11, No. 1, 2-6.
  • 1997 淭he Construction and Display of the First Full-Scale Model of a Blue Whale: The Newfoundland Connection, Acadiensis, 27, No. 1, 67-84.
  • 1995 淩enewal of Newfoundland and Labrador Shore-Station Whaling, 1918-1936, International Journal of Maritime History, 7, No. 1, 83-103.
  • 1994 淎dolph Nielsen-Norsk innflyatelse pa Newfoundlands fisherinaering ved oluttaen av det 19. og begynnelsen av deat 20. arhundre, Saertrykk av NORSK SJOFAARTSMUSEUM, Oslo (with M. Baker).
  • 1994 淐ommercial Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, 5, 546-51.
  • 1993 淢odern Shore Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador: The Peak Season, 1904, International Journal of Maritime History, 5, No. 1, 127-54.
  • 淭he Origin and Development of North American Modern Shore Station Whaling: Newfoundland and the Norwegians, 1896-1916, Basberg, B.L. Ringstad, J.E. and Wexelsen, E. (eds.) Whaling and History: Perspectives on the Evolution of the Industry, Sandefjord, Norway, Kommandor Chr. Christensens Hvalfangstmuseum, 91-100.
  • 1992 淎dolph Nielsen: Norwegian Influence on Newfoundland Fisheries in the Late 19th -Early 20th Century, Newfoundland Quarterly, 27, No.2, 25-35 (with M. Baker).
  • 1991 淓xpansion of Regulated Modern Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1902-1903, The Northern Mariner 1 No. 2, 1-22.
  • 淣ewfoundland Involvement in 20th Century Shore-Station Whaling in British Columbia, Newfoundland Studies, 7, No. 2, 97-122.
  • 淎 Newfoundland Floating Factory Whaling Expedition, Polar Record, 27 (161), 125-28.
  • 淭hey Were Clannish as Hell: Origins of Modern Shore-Station Whaling in British Columbia The Newfoundland Factor, Halifax. Oceans Institute of Canada.
  • 1990 淢odern Shore-Based Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador: Expansion and Consolidation, 1898-1902, International Journal of Maritime History, 2, No. 1, 83-116 .
  • 1989 淭he Origins of Modern Shore Based Whaling in Newfoundland and Labrador: The Cabot Steam Whaling Co. Ltd., 1896-98, International Journal of Maritime History, 1, No. 1, 129-57.

Newfoundland Harp Seal Fishery

  • 2008 淐hanging Technologies and Personnel Patterns in 19th Century Newfoundland Sealing, ASPECTS, a Publication of the Newfoundland Historical Society, Newfoundland Quarterly, 101, No. 2, 50-3.
  • 2008 淪ail Versus Steam: Post 1863 Technological and Spatial Adaptation in the Newfoundland Seal Fishery, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 23, No. 2, 139-69.
  • 2000 淭he Newfoundland and Labrador Commercial Seal Fishery, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website (NLHWS), http://www.heritage.nf.ca.
  • 1998 淪eal Fishery in the Twentieth Century, NLHWS.
  • 淪eal Fishery Hunting Methods, NLHWS.
  • 淪eal Fishery Equipment, Technologies and Products, NLHWS.
  • 淪eal Fishery Background, NLHWS.
  • 1988 淭he Newfoundland Seal Fishery and Scottish Whalemen in the Nineteenth Century in Tanioka, T. and Ukita, T. (eds.), Proceedings of Historical Georgraphy 24th International Geographical Congress (Tokya, 257-62.
  • 1980 淭he 19th Century Newfoundland Seal Fishery and the Influence of Scottish Whalemen, Polar Record, 20, No. 126, 231-52.
  • 1977 淭he Evolution of Sealing and the Spread of Permanent Settlement in Northeastern Newfoundland in The Peopling of Newfoundland: Essays in Historical Geography, J.J. Mannion (ed.), University of Toronto Press, 136-51.
  • 1973 淭echnological and Spatial Adaptation in the Newfoundland Seal Fishery during the Nineteenth Century, MA thesis, Geography, 91亚色

Newfoundland and Labrador: History/Culture/Heritage

  • 2010 Williams, A.F., John Guy: His Life, Times, and Legacy, St. John檚, NL, Flanker Press (Editor with W.G. Handcock).
  • 2002 The Sanger Family in Newfoundland: Timothy and Violet Roots and Offshoots. St. John檚, Newfoundland and Labrador (with D.S. Sanger).
  • 1998 淪ignal Hill, St. John檚, Newfoundland, Agenda Paper (C2333-97-0005), Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Heritage Canada, Ottawa.
  • Resources, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website, http://www.heritage.nf.ca.
  • 1997 淐old Ocean, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website, http://www.heritage.nf.ca (with W.G. Handcock).
  • 1996 淏attle Harbour, Labrador, Agenda Paper (C2336-96-0001), Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, Canada Heritage, Ottawa.
  • 1991 淐ultural Ancestry, Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador, Breakwater Press: St. John檚, Newfoundland. Plate 7 (with W.G. Handcock).
  • 淐ultural Patterns, Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador, Breakwater Press: St. John檚, Newfoundland. Plate 8 (with W.G. Handcock).
  • Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador, Breakwater Press: St. John檚, Newfoundland. Content Committee.
  • 1981 Outports on the Northeast Coast of Newfoundland: A Field Guide. Post-Conference Field Excursion, Canadian Association of Geographers, Corner Brook, August (with W.G. Handcock).
  • 1975 The Newfoundland Outport Pouch Cove: A Case Study, Provincial Department of Education Rural Settlement Field Research Project. Distributed to all Newfoundland High Schools.

Miscellaneous

  • 2012 淲ho are the Ice Whales? The Circle, No. 4, 6, 89.
  • 2005 淚ndex, O.M. Meehan, The Canadian Hydrographic Service from the Time of its Inception in 1883 to the End of the Second World War (published in The Norther Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, Vol. 14, Nos. 1 and 2), The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 15, No. 2, 299-357 (with Dennis R. Dawe).
  • 淭he Origins and Development of Shore-Based Commercial Whaling at Spitsbergen during the 17th Century: A Resource Utilization Assessment, The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, 15, No. 3, 39-52.
  • 1999 淚n Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906, L.E. Davis, R.E. Gallman and K. Gleiter (1997). A Roundtable Review Essay, International Journal of Maritime History, 11, No. 2, 163-9.