Race across Labrador
On June 27, 1905, two teams of explorers set off on a race across Labrador’s interior.
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The Log Driver’s Waltz
For he goes birling down a-down the white water / That’s where the log driver learns to step lightly
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Merchant mariners faced constant threat from enemy submarines, destroyers and aircraft during the Second World War.
A right worth fighting for
How nice it would be if we always voted as though it’s a right worth fighting for.
Arctic adventurer
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
On this day in 1914, a tragedy was unfolding on the North Atlantic ice floes.
1929 Tsunami on the Burin Peninsula
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.
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.
