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Larry Dohey 1959 – 2019
News · August 28, 2019
The Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society is deeply saddened to hear of Larry Dohey’s sudden passing. Larry was Past President of the Society and contributed to the preservation of NL history and heritage in immeasurable ways. He was knowledgeable, charismatic, and passionate about NL history and heritage, and he was a connector — connecting people… Read More
George Story Lecture and AGM
Shane O’Dea
April 25, 2019
Shane O’Dea will talk about the George Story he knew and about George’s central role in the development of the Newfoundland preservation movement. The lecture will reach from the first glimmerings of concern for our built heritage up through the trials and triumphs of the sixties and seventies into the present. The Newfoundland and Labrador… Read More
Gilbert Higgins Lecture
Raymond B. Blake
March 28, 2019
Raymond B. Blake presents “An Eighty-Five Year Odyssey: The Voter and Newfoundland’s Rocky Road to Confederation, 1864–1949”. This paper considers the issue of Confederation in Newfoundland politics from the early 1860s when, like the other British North American colonies, it too seriously turned its focus to union, to 1949, when it became a province of… Read More
The Grenfell Medical Mission
March 7, 2019
The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 1890s to 1940s, a new collection of essays by eleven authors co-edited by Jennifer J. Connor and Katherine Side of Memorial University, explores the American personnel, supplies, and money that sustained the organization that became the International Grenfell Association. (For more information click here)… Read More
Wordsworth’s Nephew in Labrador 1853-1867: Part II
Marie Wadden
February 28, 2019
Last year, Marie Wadden introduced us to Rev. George Hutchinson and his famous English family, including the poet William Wordsworth. It is thanks to his “uncle Wordsworth” that we know heartbreak (the mysterious Miss R.) may have driven Hutchinson across the Atlantic. But what happened when he got here? What happened after Bishop Edward Feild… Read More