Never Alone: Portraits of Labrador
BY Geoff Goodyear
“The guitar is an Epiphone Nighthawk. Got this one in Toronto when we were out for a soiree. We were playing at the foot of the CN Tower for two weeks…
Baked in a Nice Oak Desk
BY Matthew Hollett
I WONDER IF a grumbling stomach was the inspiration for this delightful Recipe for a Composition Cake, concocted by a student at St. Bride’s Academy in February 1905…
Horseless Carriages and Cars on Rafts
BY Matthew Hollett
In trawling through older issues of Newfoundland Quarterly, I’m particularly looking for writing about landscape and place, stories about technology, and things that make me laugh. So far, the most perfect triangulation of those three things is The First Automobile in Bonne Bay.
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?
Scavenged art
BY Ellen Curtis
WHEN PEOPLE COME to me after seeing my art, and I get to use found material, they might bring me broken things or stuff that’s been kicking around their house, and then I get to make something out of that.
“Walking Even Where No Flowers Grow”
BY Matthew Hollett
IF WE ALL walked a little more, how would the city change?