Boulder Books, founded in 2002, is an award-winning independent publisher based in Newfoundland and Labrador with a reputation for high-quality, culturally significant works. Their catalogue spans history, nature, field guides, cookbooks, knitting traditions, and more, often highlighting underrepresented aspects of Canadian culture. Known for beautifully designed books like the bestselling “Saltwater Knits” series and acclaimed titles on Newfoundland history, Boulder has earned recognition including multiple Atlantic Book Awards and the Atlantic Canada Craft Award for Excellence in Product Design.

With a commitment to excellence in editing, design, and cultural storytelling, Boulder Books continues to connect readers with the rich heritage and evolving voices of Atlantic Canada.

From Silence to Suffrage reveals the remarkable history of how Newfoundland women won the right to vote, despite fierce opposition.

Duley documents the long struggle of Newfoundland women to organize starting in the early nineteenth century. She follows the women’s temperance movement, along with public debates about poverty, domestic violence, alcohol abuse, prison reform, and other issues considered too delicate for “respectable” women to discuss.

She reveals the lives of women leaders—mostly long-forgotten—who fought for change against fierce resistance. They include Armine Gosling, a remarkably advanced thinker for her time, among other inspiring suffragists who took up the cause.

Through persistence, the Newfoundland Women’s Franchise League overcame political opposition and popularized the radical idea of women voting & running for office.

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