Introducing the NQ Stay Home Summer Pack

BY NQ

July 2020

There’s so much to enjoy here on our doorsteps! Spend some time at home this summer with the NQ Stay Home Summer pack. It’s the perfect way to relax and unwind between visits to the many amazing places of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Enjoy a full year’s subscription to Newfoundland Quarterly, a treat from Newfoundland Chocolate Company, a soothing blend from The Newfoundland Tea Co. and an entry to win an original J.C. Roy painting, all for just $45. Drop-off available in the metro area, with pick-up locations province-wide.

Get it, or gift it here.

Making the East Coast Trail

BY Susan Flanagan

It was, and is, the sweat and perseverance of both the expat and local community volunteers that makes the East Coast Trail a continued success. That and making trail blazing an enjoyable exercise.

From the Archives Canada 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.”

Non-Fiction Essay

A Grand Time: NL Music at the Irish Traditional Music Archive in Dublin

BY Marie Stamp

“O’Hara would eventually make hundreds of recordings of the stories and songs of the people he met in Newfoundland. He did not have to insist too much to coax them to take the mic. “Sing a song or hum a tune, do a dance or leave the room! That’s what they used to say,” he remembers of his time in Branch.”