Theme: From the Magazine
Fall 2023 on the stands!
On the theme of Place, as in the geography, memory, and putting things in properly of. If you’d like to pick up an issue, or subscribe or give a subscription…
Summer issue on the Stands
On the theme of Hollywood, from NL’s earliest film stars and filmmakers, through the lyrics of a Ron Hynes’ classic, and packed with buzz and scoops and did-you-knows. On the…
Spring issue on the stands
We’re getting a great response to our spring issue, packed with assessments, appreciations, and imagery on the theme of Corner Stores. Where can you buy it? In St John’s, try…
Coming this spring, here’s a sneak peek at our theme – on the shelf April 3
One of our contributors, Luke Quinton, is part of a group of urban-design-minded people in St John’s, called Re-Vision YYT. Among other initiatives is a crowd-sourced map of both current…
Look inside our Winter issue!
BY NQ
The Winter issue of NQ is full of creatures who might make you feel better about spending so much time indoors!
Take a Peek Inside our Fall Issue!
BY NQ
We’re not quite ready to admit that summer is on the way out. Luckily, a new issue of NQ is now on-stands, ready to ease you into the Fall without any need for pumpkin spice.
A Sneek Peek of the Summer Issue!
BY NQ
On visual art Q&A with Daniel Rumbolt What subjects attract your eye, and why? I’m a sucker for clean lines, seamless blends, and a gorgeously muted (typically pastel) colour palette….
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?