Newfoundland at the time had a lot of PTSD as a result.' In the wake of the tsunami, many Newfoundlanders had no shelter and they certainly had no work. In the wake of the tsunami, many Newfoundlanders had no shelter and they certainly had no work. 'The tsunami caused or certainly coincided with a disastrous collapse of the cod fishery, which these communities were dependent on. Linden MacIntyre's The Wake is a popular book at this Charlottetown store.'This natural disaster came on the eve of the collapse of democracy in Newfoundland and on the eve of the Great Depression that hammered the Western world. And it all happened a few years after the First World War which had wiped out a generation of young Newfoundlanders.

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Some people also became sick and others became terrified for the rest of their lives.' During the day there were several waves and 27 people died. All these were fishing villages, where people had their wharves, their houses and their fishing stages or flakes that were close to the water. 'Shortly after that phenomenon, this wall of water came roaring down these bays, inlets and harbours. 'There were about 40 communities spread out along the bottom of the Burin Peninsula and all of a sudden they started noticing, independently of one another, that the harbours were going dry and they could see at the bottom of the bay. Lawrence area - but it absolutely paled in comparison to the tsunami waves that hit a few hours later. This is an inherently visceral Newfoundland story.

'This is an inherently visceral Newfoundland story. MacIntyre spoke with Shelagh Rogers about writing The Wake. Twenty-eight people died in that tsunami and hundreds more were injured or left homeless. Lawrence, a Newfoundland community that was almost completely wiped out by a tsunami in 1929. Though raised in Nova Scotia, he was born near a small village called St. Linden MacIntyre is an author of bestselling novels - including The Long Stretch, The Only Café and 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner The Bishop's Man - and was the longtime co-host of CBC's award-winning investigative documentary program The Fifth Estate.

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