Author: Paul Dunne

George Story Lecture – The Return of History? Newfoundland & Labrador after the Oil Boom and the Hydro Bust (On Line Lecture)

Dr. Jerry Bannister

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

Food Fight: Food Rationing, Price Control, and Feeding Newfoundlanders in the Great War (Online Lecture)

Michael Westcott, PhD

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

“Let ’em die”: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Labrador (Online Lecture)

Anne Budgell

February 25, 2021

During the second wave of the pandemic of “Spanish” influenza in 1918, the virus was brought to the coast of Labrador at the end of the fishing and shipping season. People started dying days after the last vessels sailed away for the long winter. Word of the disaster did not reach the outside world for… Read More

“Newfoundland and Labrador Women Creating Place Through Story” (Online Lecture)

Dr. Vicki S. Hallett

January 28, 2021

We make place through the stories we tell about it.  We create our sense of who we are, but also our sense of where we are and where we belong by telling tales. Join the NLHS as Dr. Vicki Hallett discusses two fascinating women who have made important contributions to the story of this place,… Read More

The Spanish Flu in Newfoundland, 1918-19 (Online Lecture)

Dr. Ean Parsons, Professor Terry Bishop Stirling and Dr. Heidi Coombs

December 3, 2020

In September 1918, the second wave of the global influenza pandemic reached the shores of Newfoundland and Labrador. The pandemic, colloquially known as the Spanish Flu, became one of the deadliest outbreaks of infectious disease in world history. Join us as Dr. Ean Parsons, Professor Terry Bishop Stirling and Dr. Heidi Coombs present the history… Read More