October 30, 2025
For much of its history, NL had a vibrant oral culture, but no visual culture to speak of. Starting in the 1920s a group of women and men tried to change that by campaigning for an art gallery that would foster Newfoundland art. Their hopes were realized with the creation of the Memorial University Art… Read More
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
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.
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.
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