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Twenty-seven useless. stunning estate losses.
Triggered via an offshore earthquake at the Grand Banks, a tsunami unleashed its fury at the sea coast of the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, killing 27 humans and destroying houses and fishing premises in 50 outports.
Here is the dramatic, outstanding tale of the South Coast catastrophe of 1929, the superhuman efforts of Nurse Dorothy Cherry to avoid wasting the ailing and demise, and Justice of the Peace Malcolm Hollett’s tireless crusade to rebuild shattered lives and devastated groups.
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