Chapter 1  Introduction - Signal Hill: A Significant Place Feature

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 Theoretical Approach
• 1.2.1 The Home Concept 
• 1.2.2 Sense of Place Scholarship
• 1.2.3 Sense of Place within Folklore 
• 1.3 Methodology 
• 1.3.1 Images of Signal Hill 
• 1.3.2 The Interviews
• 1.3.3 Questionnaire Response
• 1.3.4 Song, Poetry, and Prose
• 1.4 Conclusion

• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Sense of Place in St. John’s
• 2.2.1 The Perspective from Inside and Out
• 2.3 Signal Hill in the Lives of Local Residents
• 2.3.1 History and Stories
• 2.3.2 Landmark
• 2.3.3 Like a Rock: The Sense of Permanence
• 2.4 Conclusion

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 Early Settlement of "This Worthless Isle…"
• 3.2.1 Early Settlement in St. John's
• 3.3 World View: Expectations and Cultural Expressions
• 3.3.1 Aesthetic Evaluations: Comparisons to Home
• 3.3.2 "A Description of Newfoundland" - Chaplain B. Lacy
• 3.3.3 "Lines on Captain Court’nay’s Grotto" - Anonymous
• 3.3.4 Aesthetic Miscalculations: Learning from Experience
• 3.4 Conclusion

• 4.1 Introduction
• 4.2 St. John’s - Newfoundland’s Capital Emerges
• 4.2.1 The Emporium of the Island
• 4.2.2 Growing Confidence and Self-Rule
• 4.2.3 The Rise of Sectarianism
• 4.2.4 St. John’s Riot of 1861
• 4.3 Identity Building
• 4.3.1 A Society of Natives
• 4.3.2 Disastrous Events
• 4.3.3 Daily Routines
• 4.3.4 The "Grand Lookout" 
• 4.3.5 The Sailing of the Fleet
• 4.4 Conclusion

• 5.1 Introduction
• 5.2 Cabot and the Making of a Homeland
• 5.2.1 The Cabot Committee and Controversy
• 5.2.2 A "Hardy Race of Mariners"
• 5.2.3 The Cornerstone Ceremony
• 5.3 Signal Hill: Landscape of Home
• 5.3.1 Nostalgia for Days Past
• 5.3.2 Leaving Home: Out-migration 1900 - 1930 
• 5.3.3 Scenes from Home
• 5.4 Conclusion

• 6.1 Introduction
• 6.2 Queen’s Battery Barracks
• 6.3 The Great Depression
• 6.3.1 Exiles in Newfoundland: The Hope Simpson Letters
• 6.3.2 Marconi and his Signal
• 6.4 World War II
• 6.4.1 Stories of the Hill
• 6.5 Confederation
• 6.5.1 Appropriation of a Newfoundland National Icon
• 6.5.2 Changing Sentiments
• 6.6 Conclusion

• 7.1 Introduction
• 7.2 The Tradition of the Commons
• 7.2.1 Social Control and the Restructuring of Space
• 7.2.2 The Battle for Mousehold Heath
• 7.3 Signal Hill as Commons
• 7.3.1 Fringe Area Behavior
• 7.3.2 Social Control and the Restructuring of Space at Signal Hill 
• 7.3.3 Conflict at Signal Hill: The PUF Protest 
• 7.4 Conclusion

• 8.1  Introduction 
• 8.1.1  Thesis Outline
• 8.2  Contribution to Research 
• 8.2.1  Future Research Areas 
• 8.3 Conclusion