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George Story Lecture and AGM – On Gerry Squires
Stan Dragland
April 27, 2017
Bio Stan Dragland is originally from Alberta and now lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Western University. He has taught creative writing at the Banff Centre and at Los Parronales, Chile. He was founder of Brick magazine and Brick Books, and is still active with the latter. Between 1994… Read More
The Impossible Dream
Rick Cooper
March 30, 2017
A lecture about how and why the Janeway Hospital, St. John’s was opened in 1966. The opening of a Child Health Centre in the Old Pepperrell Hospital in 1966 against enormous opposition from the medical community was a remarkable story. Listen to Rick Cooper’s lecture:
Observing the Outports, the foundation of our understanding of Newfoundland society in an era of modernization
Jeff Webb
February 23, 2017
In Dr Webb’s lecture he will draw upon his recent book Observing the Outports: Describing Newfoundland Society and Culture. Parallel to the cultural revival that occurred in the 25 years after confederation, there was a Newfoundland Studies Movement at the university. Anthropologists, folklorists, historians and others developed active research in an effort to document Newfoundland… Read More
Fathoming the Depths for the First Trans-Atlantic Cables
Charles H. Stirling
January 26, 2017
Abstract: In the 1850s when the first transatlantic telegraph cable was envisioned very little was known about the deep ocean and its seabed. However, hydrographic information was considered essential to determine the practicality of the project. This presentation will discuss the hydrographic surveys completed for the transatlantic cable project, the hydrographers who did them, how… Read More
One Child’s Book History in St. John’s in the 1950s
Margaret Mackey
November 24, 2016
An extensive study of the materials that made the speaker a literate child, growing up in St. John’s, NL, in the 1950s and 1960s.