Theme: From the Magazine
MAKING NEWFOUNDLAND’S SOLDIERS: THE NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT, THE BRITISH ARMY, AND TRAINING FOR BATTLE, 1914-1915
BY Dr Mike O’Brien
In early October 1914, the first contingent of the recently-raised Newfoundland Regiment left St John’s for England on SS Florizel, after having undergone a month of basic training at a…
Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs
BY Paul Chafe
I do see the beauty in Emma Hooper’s Our Homesick Songs, I do. But I have been hearing these sad old tunes my whole life and I am just about ready to throw the accordion into the ocean.
Like Sand Through the Hourglass…
BY Joan Sullivan
Like sand through the hourglass, so is the creative cycle of NQ. Our Spring issue copy deadline is just one month away…
Portfolio: Patrick Thomas Canning Q&A
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
NQ: Where and when were you born? PTC: I was born on a sheep farm in the tiny Hamlet of The Highlands in the Codroy Valley area of the province…
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.
Woody Point: Doing it the Write Way
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IF IT WAS purely artistic, with no connection to the community, it wouldn’t work.
The Trout River Blue Whale
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
IN MAY 2014, two blue whale carcasses washed up on the beaches of Trout River and Rocky Harbour. There are only 250 estimated in the North Atlantic, perhaps 20,000 worldwide.
Spirit Bird
BY Gary L Saunders
THE ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY, having canvassed the country for two years, had finally narrowed the search to Perisoreus canadensis, a robin-sized cousin of the raven and crow native to every province and territory and nowhere else on the planet. Unlike most of our birds, it stays up north year-round, nesting in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. Hardy, smart, loyal and friendly – what could be more Canadian?
“They were clean, decent people… but they had no money”
BY Katie Vautour
THERE WERE a hundred ways to get home that didn’t involve walking past the Colonial Building. We didn’t take any of them.
The day NL started driving on the right side of the road
BY Newfoundland Quarterly Magazine (Print)
WHERE WERE THE “series of cannonading accidents that would overflow hospitals, and maim or kill the majority of the city’s young and old, man and womanhood …” that had been predicted?