Our contest closes August 31, 2024. Until then anyone who buys, renews, or gives a subscription to NQ gets a ticket towards winning this gorgeous prize – No Straight Lines, by Jean Claude Roy (oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2023). You can subscribe here and we’ll also be set up at Sunday’s Coastlines event.
I’M NOT SURE who first referred to them as the “Dear Old” Southside Hills, or if anyone still calls them that. Possibly the name went out of fashion when the huge oil tanks were built. But the nickname seems to have stuck for a while in the early 1900s, a curious term of affection for the imposing hillside that gives shape to St. John’s Harbour.
What does July 1st mean to you? “Up front, I should say that I am a pacifist and that has always coloured the way I’ve marked July 1st. Nationalism is strongly…
In the early 1960s, me, my Mom, Dad (who was mostly absent because he worked at sea) and my two sisters lived in an upstairs apartment on Church Hill in…