120 Years of NQ!

BY NQ

June 2021

We’ve never been shy about our age: NQ is 120 years old this Summer and we’re celebrating!

Our new issue is in stores now (or in your mailbox soon, if you’re a subscriber.) For the first time ever, we are featuring 4 unique, beautiful art covers by NL artists.

Which one will you get?

Not a subscriber yet? We can help (and send you one of these beautiful magazines, too!) Just head here to get set up. 

Baby Kate in a Amautik by Nelson White, (Oil on canvas, 30 inches by 30 inches, 2020.)

Squid Fish Bash! By Anastasia Tiller (Acrylic on paper, 30 inches by 24 inches, 2020.)

A Month of Sundays by Grant Boland (Oil on canvas, 24 inches by 24 inches, 2016.)

Bloom by Krista Power (Digital Media, No Dimensions, Undated.)

From the ArchivesCanada 150

The Southside Hills in History and Song

BY Matthew Hollett

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.

Events

All Hands

By Janet Harron   All hands on deck is a traditional nautical command for all sailors of all watches to muster on deck of the boat to help navigate through…

Events

Becoming Labrador

BY NQ

SJIFF: Part one NL flicks – Becoming Labrador   The St John’s International Women’s Film and Video Festival (October 16-20) is 30 years old, and now the second longest-running women’s…