All regular lectures at the Marine Institute at Ridge Road are suspended due to COVID-19. We are working to provide online lectures for the 2020-21 season, the first of which can be viewed below. Please check back for updates.
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October 7, 2021
Dr. Pam Hall will share her art-and-knowledge project Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge. Created over the last decade, in collaboration with knowledge-holders in rural Newfoundland, the Encyclopedia continues to have a real and virtual “life”, opening conversations about vernacular, embodied, and traditional ways of knowing and the contribution they make to our understanding of… Read More
September 30, 2021
The Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society recognizes and commemorates this first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The Society joins members all across the province in honouring the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families, and communities. We encourage everyone to reflect on the history of residential schools and recognize the long shadow… Read More
News · August 28, 2021
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 Terry Bishop Stirling, deals with how Newfoundlanders first learned about Beaumont Hamel and how newspapers portrayed these events. ( More articles will… Read More
April 29, 2021
This lecture explores the changing roles of history since the province’s economic downturn. It traces patterns in political culture and collective memory from the Williams era to the present day, as the province experienced the end of triumphalism and the return to a politics of loss. In discussing the causes and consequences of the Muskrat… Read More
March 25, 2021
Without an abundance of fertile soil to grow crops, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians have always depended on food imports from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States to sustain life. The Great War’s impact on the global economy, and the U-Boat menace, created shortages and threatened to cut Newfoundland off from the vital necessities of… Read More