Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute – Hampton Hall The Return of History? Newfoundland and Labrador after the Oil Boom and the Hydro Bust Dr. Jerry Bannister April 30, 2020 Building on the themes established in A river runs through it (2012), Dr. Bannister
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: Two solitudes – the pdf version #nlpoli
This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago for The Dorchester Review. (Volume 6, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2016. I posted about the piece when it came out but now you can buy buy the whole issue online, subscribe, or download the pdf of “Two solitudes” at academia.edu) “Newfoundland and Canada,
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Historian Gerhard bassler’s new book from Flanker examines efforts by the Government of Newfoundland to develop local industry by recruiting immigrants from Germany, Latvia, and Austria between 1950 and 1970. Based in large part on interviews Bassler conducted for other research on Germans in Newfoundland, this is a personal account
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Historian Gerhard bassler’s new book from Flanker examines efforts by the Government of Newfoundland to develop local industry by recruiting immigrants from Germany, Latvia, and Austria between 1950 and 1970. Based in large part on interviews Bassler conducted for other research on Germans in Newfoundland, this is a personal account
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“Newfoundland and Canada, separate countries for so long, exist as two solitudes within the bosom of a single country more than 65 years after Confederation. They do not understand each other very well. Canadians can be forgiven if they do n…
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: Through a glass, darkly #nlpoli
Imagine that Newfoundland history is enclosed inside a gigantic room. Inside the room everything is pitch black. Every now and again, someone opens the door and goes inside the room to take a look at an event somewhere in the past. They don’t have much in the way of light
Continue readingThe Sir Robert Bond Papers: The Great War and Newfoundland Political Memory #nlpoli
“It is sobering to think,” historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been used partially for later political purposes for almost a century.” Cadigan was recounting the history of the ceremony on July 1 that started in 1917 to
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Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail. House prices are climbing in St. John’s. There are plenty of expensive restaurants around and people to eat the food and drink the wine sold there. “But,” says Crummey, “while oil execs tuck into their
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The Duke of Connaught, Governor General of Canada and uncle of King George, visited St. John’s in the middle of July, 1914. During his visit, he officially opened a new park in St. John’s and inspected the paramilitary groups that formed the basis of Newfoundland’s defence plan in the event
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The news release that announced a provincial commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War includes right at the start a picture of two couples, one older, and a small child. The photograph is curious. Look closely at it. (Read more…)
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This is a revised version of post that originally appeared on July 4, 2012. ___________________________________ Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1, 2012 about the impact of Beaumont Hamel on Newfoundland and Labrador. Humphries does an interesting job of putting
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Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a referendum on the megaproject. Some people were quite badly misinformed, so the commentary went, not just…
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Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University. He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1 about the impact of Beaumont Hamel on Newfoundland and Labrador. Humphries does an interesting job of putting the 700 dead and wounded on that day into a larger context. He likened it to
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Jerry Bannister’s paper “A river runs through it: Churchill Falls and the end of Newfoundland history” is now available in the latest issue of Acadiensis. This paper was the basis for his talks last winter on myths in local politics and history and oil and “have” status. They were well
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