This book is endorsed by Dr. Clar Doyle in his preface to this book. Dr. Doyle is very well known locally.
This book is about the contemporary life of grandparents in Newfoundland and Labrador - a geographically isolated and culturally unique rural region of Canada. The book can be used for courses in the areas of critical social work, family studies, gerontology, nursing, rural development, critical pedagogy, and diaspora studies.
Clar Doyle, Professor of Education, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and member of the Founding Scholars Advisory Board, The Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy.
"This book offers a platform not only to look in on the lives of vital grandparents but paints, in broad strokes, a mural of coming, changing, as well as challenging cultural and social settings.... In what the astute editors ....call "small nuanced studies" we find telling narratives of generational connections in the face of changing and challenging odds....This book does a great service to the concept of diaspora, as well as to the changing nature of that concept... This book elevates the status of grandparents by positioning them as vital members of a complex and challenging society where their skills, gifts, and sheer presence are most formative.... As is strongly advocated in this book, it is essential that educators, curriculum developers, and teachers appreciate the place of grandparents in their students' lives."

Preface: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Family; Acknowledgments; About the Contributing Authors; Introduction; Place, Diaspora, Nostalgia, Hope, and Possibilities; Rural Newfoundland and Labrador; Memoirs From Away, A New Found Land Girlhood (An Excerpt); Remittance, The New Way to Work in Newfoundland and Labrador; Alberta's Oil Sand Workers and the Role of Grandparents; Sense of Community and Community Profiles: Grandparents and Grandparenting Styles; Prominence of Grandparents; The Role of Grandparents in the Development of Community; Goat Island; The Influence of Grandparents within Families and Communities; A randmother's Contribution to Community & Community Culture; Grandparents as Contributors to Community and Community Culture; Nan "M" about Churchville: Back to the Basics; Grandparents and Community; The Role of Grandparenting; Voices of Grandparents: Community-Family-School Relationships; Newfoundland and Labrador Diaspora; Parenting Two Generations; The Forgotten Catalogue; Grandparents Passing Legacies Through Story Telling and Active Living; "It's Wonderful to be a Newfoundland Grandmother"; Returning to Our Roots...Vegetables; The Role of Grandparents; The Affects of Divorce on Grandparents; Contributions of Grandparents in Today's Society; The Dynamic and Diverse Roles of Grandparents; Grandparents' Roles in Changing Schools, Communities and Families; The Ties That Bind; Supporting Roles of Grandparents in Holding the Family Together; The Increased Role of Grandparents in Newfoundland Families; Grandparents' Roles in School, Community and Families; Grandparents Raising Grandchildren; The Role of Grandparents; The Role of Grandparents in Today's Society; Grandparents' Role in Their Grandchildren's Education; Grandparenting in Newfoundland and Labrador; From Feeling of Cultural Loss to Nostalgia to Agency (Praxis) For Sustaining Home and Place; Making Sense; Future Newfoundland Grandparents; Appendix.