Events & Past Lectures · Page 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
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.
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.
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
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