Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador is an encyclopedia commissioned by Joey Smallwood to capture the people, places, events and history of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Every person, every event, every location, every institution, every development, every industry, every intellectual activity, every religious movement in Newfoundland belongs in there.The work took nearly thirteen years to complete and contains 5 volumes containing over 3,900 pages by more than 200 authors.
Smallwood had suffered a stroke two months after volume two was released.
The work was suspended until 1987 when the Joseph R. Smallwood Foundation was established with a mandate to complete the five volume encyclopedia.
Marketing of the volumes is by The Institute of Social and Economic Research of Memorial University[1] with proceeds going toward the J. R. Smallwood Centre for Newfoundland Studies.