Author: Paul Dunne

From a Sojourner’s Life to Family Reunification: Reflections on the Experiences of Chinese Immigrants in Newfoundland, 1890s-1950s

Miriam Wright & Robert Hong

February 23, 2023

Between the 1890s and 1949, over 400 Chinese men came to the Dominion of Newfoundland, looking to escape economic and political conflict at home. Arriving without female family members, these men put down roots in Newfoundland, opening and working in laundries, cafes and restaurants to earn money to support themselves, and to send what they… Read More

From Collective Begging to Collective Bargaining: The Professionalization of Teachers and Their Influence on Reforming Newfoundland and Labrador’s Denominational Education System

Rebecca Ralph

January 26, 2023

This talk will examine how teachers were professionalized and regulated, beginning in 1876, and explore the development of the teaching organization that became the NLTA in the context of the political and social debates over the purpose of education and the place of churches in education. Teachers came to take on significant roles in government… Read More

Nitinikiau Innusi/Exactly What I Said: Tshaukuesh Penashue & Elizabeth Yeoman Talk About Their Books

November 24, 2022

Please join us online as Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue & Elizabeth Yeoman speak about their books, Nitinikiau Innusi: I Keep the Land Alive and Exactly What I Said: Translating Words and Worlds, and their experiences working together. Tshaukuesh was a leader of the Innu campaign against NATO low level flying and weapons-testing on Innu land in… Read More

Annual Gilbert Higgins Lecture – A Match to a Blasty Bough: How FFAW-Unifor Confronted Power and Shared the Wealth

Earle McCurdy

October 27, 2022

Please join us online as Earle McCurdy presents a history of Fish, Food, and Allied Workers (FFAW-Unifor). The historic sense of NL as a fishing society has been described as a focal point of our cultural identity. In the next Gilbert Higgins lecture for the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society, Earle McCurdy takes a look… Read More