Author Jenny Higgins Jenny's Latest Articles Race across Labrador By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● June 10, 2011 On June 27, 1905, two teams of explorers set off on a race across Labrador’s interior. The Log Driver’s Waltz By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● May 27, 2011 For he goes birling down a-down the white water / That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly Merchant mariners: the captains courageous of WWII By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● May 13, 2011 Merchant mariners faced constant threat from enemy submarines, destroyers and aircraft during the Second World War. A right worth fighting for By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● April 29, 2011 How nice it would be if we always voted as though it’s a right worth fighting for. Arctic adventurer By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● April 15, 2011 Captain Bob Bartlett of Brigus skippered some of the most famous – and dangerous – expeditions ever made to the Arctic. This month is the 65th anniversary of his death. 1914 Sealing Disaster By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● April 1, 2011 On this day in 1914, a tragedy was unfolding on the North Atlantic ice floes. 1929 Tsunami on the Burin Peninsula By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● March 18, 2011 Although not as devastating as the one that struck Japan last week, a tsunami once hit Newfoundland’s south coast A press for change: early newspapers in N.L. By Jenny Higgins ● Past Tense ● March 4, 2011 In what is quite possibly the province’s newest newspaper, it makes sense to look back at the earliest mass media in Newfoundland and Labrador.