New Issue Podcast: All Things “Corner Store”

BY NQ

April 2023

Our editor, Joan Sullivan, joined Adam Walsh, host of the Signal on CBC, to chat about all things “corner store”. They were joined by guests Paul Rowe, Reed Weir, David Michael, and Eva Crocker for a colourful look at the role that corner stores play in the life of this province.

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Art by Jessie Donaldson

Making Album Rock

BY Matthew Hollett

You can find such surprising and funny things while digging through archives. The Pilote de Terre-Neuve, published in 1869, is full of dollhouse-like illustrations of Newfoundland’s coastline, complete with tiny ships and houses. I also came across a sea captain’s letter to his daughter, in which he describes “seven little gulls recently hatched” that he is attempting to raise.