Abstract
When the Historic Passion series first started in History Workshop Journal, contributors were invited to reflect upon a book that had helped awaken them to history and its possibilities. But my historic passion stems from a book that was never published, indeed, never really written in the first place. It was the book I thought my grandfather was writing about the place where my family comes from. My maternal grandfather, Jacob Harrison Button, was born in 1929 on a tiny island off the coast of the island of Newfoundland when, in his words, ‘times were not only bad but damned bad’.1 Silver Fox Island, as it was charmingly called, sat at the mouth of the Indian Bay inlet, on the northwest side of Bonavista Bay – famed for the cape where John Cabot is said to have first seen land in 1497, after setting off from England to discover a new world.
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