Jenny Higgins

Jenny Higgins is a freelance writer and researcher living in St. John’s. She has been contributing to the Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Web Site at Memorial University since 2006 and is delighted to share her research with Indy readers. She has also worked for CBC Radio, the Newfoundland Quarterly and this site’s ancestor – the wonderful weekly print Independent. Also an avid gardener and beekeeper, Jenny does her best writing in the backyard while snacking on snap peas, tomatoes, and other home-grown veggies.

Posts


  • > Race across Labrador
    June 10, 2011
    On June 27, 1905, two teams of explorers set off on a race across Labrador’s interior. The starting point was North West River, in central Labrador, and the f... Read More

  • > The Log Driver’s Waltz
    May 27, 2011
    “The Log Driver’s Waltz” is a Canadian folk song written by Wade Hemsworth and made famous by an animated film short the National Film Board released in 1... Read More

  • > A right worth fighting for
    April 29, 2011
    A whopping 90 per cent of women voters went to the polls in Newfoundland’s 1928 general election. Compare that to the 2008 federal election, when only 58.8 pe... Read More

  • > Arctic adventurer
    April 15, 2011
    Bob Bartlett’s life was the stuff of legends. During more than 50 years as a seafarer, he travelled further north than almost any other living person, was shi... Read More

  • > 1914 Sealing Disaster
    April 1, 2011
    On the morning of March 31, 1914, the wooden steamer SS Newfoundland was jammed in the ice floes off Newfoundland’s north coast. Unable to take the ship any f... Read More

  • > 1929 Tsunami on the Burin Peninsula
    March 18, 2011
    At 5:02 p.m. on Nov. 18, 1929, an underwater earthquake shook the Grand Banks and sent a tsunami racing towards Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. The quake meas... Read More