Arch Rock, Catalina, Trinity Bay
BY Matthew Hollett
FLIPPING THROUGH older issues of Newfoundland Quarterly, I’ve started to notice many of the same photos popping up over and over, sometimes decades after they first appeared in the magazine. A distinctive silhouette keeps catching my eye…
Sending Up Kites
BY Matthew Hollett
NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY was founded in 1901, the same year Marconi flew a 500-foot kite on Signal Hill and intercepted the first trans-Atlantic wireless transmission. The second-oldest magazine in Canada, NQ began as “a literary magazine of interest to Newfoundlanders at home and abroad,” which is not far off the way it describes itself today, as “a cultural journal of Newfoundland and Labrador.” That’s a remarkable persistency of purpose over 116 years.
When Newfoundland Saved Canada: the 2017 remake
BY Michelle Porter
THE MOMENT I READ THE HEADLINE I knew I had to get some of the province’s newest writers on it.
An orange in winter: Welcome to NQ Online
BY NQ
OKAY, SO I HAVE TO ADMIT that going online freaked me out a little bit. It was the details: planning for mobile screen sizes, linking to author bios, uploading, saving, always…
Is your star sign compatible with Newfoundland and Labrador?
BY Shannon Webb-Campbell
ST. JOHN’S IS A BULL-MINDED TAURUS. I’m a Gemini who needs to take in every view. You can leave Newfoundland and Labrador, but it will never leave you. Believe me, I’ve tried.
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?