Holiday lights & rush
BY NQ
December 2019
A lovely & safe Season to all, and we’ll see you back on nqonline in January 2020.
1917: The Year the War Came Home
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IN THE FALL 2017 issue of The Newfoundland Quarterly, we explore the ramifications of WWI on Newfoundland and Labrador. But what exactly was life like 100 years ago? Here are some facts to read before diving into this issue.
Thirteen Ways of Looking at an Iceberg
BY Matthew Hollett
I’VE BEEN READING After Icebergs with a Painter, Rev. Louis L. Noble’s imaginative travelogue from a voyage around Newfoundland in 1859. It’s like following a jet-setting paparazzo’s Instagram – except instead of celebrity photos, it’s full of nineteenth-century prose portraits of icebergs.
Paying Ode to Funambulists
BY Prajwala Dixit
“Do you remember everything I’ve told you?” I ask my fiancé for the millionth time. We are in the lobby of a Quality Inn near Pearson International. Four floors up, my parents await to meet their daughter and future son-in-law. This is the first time my Indian and Canadian realms will come face to face.