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A Forgotten Decade (2025-09-23) (2)

A FORGOTTEN DECADE: Reappraising Healthcare Delivery on the Island of Newfoundland in the 1920s

Patrick Kennedy, LLB, LLM, MA

September 23, 2025

In the 1920s, the health care system on the island of Newfoundland was better developed than is generally assumed. The view of the system as unsatisfactory and inefficient stems from the influential Amulree report – a political document that presented a reduced state of health care in Newfoundland. Subsequent historians and politicians uncritically accepted Amulree’s… Read More


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Past “Aspects” – New Article

News · September 2, 2025

A new addition has been made to the Past “Aspects” page,  which contains our “Aspects” articles from past issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly and is located under our Publications Page. This new posting, by Dr. Jim Connor, continues with the topic of nutrition and deficiency diseases in Newfoundland.


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Past “Aspects” – New Article

News · July 29, 2025

A new addition has been made to the Past “Aspects” page,  which contains our “Aspects” articles from past issues of the Newfoundland Quarterly and is located under our Publications Page. This new posting, by Dr. Jim Connor, deals with the topic of nutrition and deficiency diseases in Newfoundland.  


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Annual George Story Lecture – ‘Go to the Devil to the River Head to Your Own Bogs’: Unsettling Femininity in Early Irish-Newfoundland Fishing Communities

Dr. Willeen Keough

April 24, 2025

Threats, curses, common assaults, and communal actions involving Irish-Newfoundland women provide intriguing insights into gender, ethnicity, and class relations in Newfoundland fishing communities during early settlement. For a variety of motives — self-defense; defense of reputation, property, or family business; employment disputes; enforcement of community standards; and maintenance of ethnic boundaries—these women deployed power in… Read More


Only a Baby Gone

Child Health and Welfare in Newfoundland before 1949

Dr. Rick Cooper

March 27, 2025

Pre-Confederation Newfoundland was a challenging place to grow up, especially for children in low-income families. Infectious diseases – including cholera, typhus, smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, gastroenteritis, and whooping cough – circulated unchecked. Poverty, meagre sanitation, inadequate transportation, ignorance, and isolation compounded the effects of poor health. Health care was difficult to access, particularly in outport communities…. Read More