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Introducing NQ Fall 2024!

September 2024

Antarctic expeditions, sailor’s valentines, WWII disasters, the history and mystery of the Lubov Orlova – read all about this in Swift Sails, Fearful Wrecks – not to mention portfolios brimming with imagery of vessels, stages, and harbours. You can pick up a copy here, or subscribe here.

(Moon and Monolith, by Barbara Pratt. Image courtesy Emma Butler Gallery.)

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Yvonne Jones looks Just Around the Corner

Congratulations on your new memoir. Where did the idea of the book come from? For a long time in my life I felt that I wanted to tell my story,…

Bethany MacKenzie: Exploring the line between intriguing and repulsive

Congratulations on being named the regional winner of the BMO 1st Art! Award. Can you tell us more about your piece, What Will the Worms Think of Me? And can…

From the ArchivesCanada 150

The Codfish Splitting Machine

BY Matthew Hollett

IN THE FALL 1922 ISSUE of Newfoundland Quarterly, anchored between a lament for the drowning of a local businessman and a brief history of Puerto Rico, I found a curious article titled “The Iron Splitter for Dressing Codfish.”

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