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unusual facts about Catalina, Newfoundland and Labrador



30th Anniversary Concert

Vollmer first encountered the Wiechmanns in Newfoundland when their band, KAOS, opened for Helix on the 1985 Long Way to Heaven tour.

Aksel Sandemose

Apart from his writing, in his early years he worked as a teacher, journalist, sailor and lumberjack in Newfoundland.

Anthocharis cethura catalina

The Catalina Orangetip (Anthocharis cethura catalina), is a subspecies of the butterfly Desert Orangetip that is found only on Santa Catalina Island.

Art Finley

He enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, and in the Korean War, he was recalled to active duty as a reserve officer in the U.S. Air Force, where he helped establish radio stations in Newfoundland and Greenland for the Strategic Air Command.

Aspidella

In 1872, Elkanah Billings described Aspidella terranovica fossils from Duckworth Street, St. John's, Newfoundland.

At the Hundredth Meridian

In the video, Downie is wearing a ball-cap advertising Gros Morne National Park, located in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Biak Numfor Regency

The visibility is well up to 30 meters which a favourite World War II wreckage of US Catalina seaplane is preserved with anglefish, lionfish, damselfish and other smaller fish swim around the wreckage.

Bird Innovator

During the late 1960s Dr Forrest Bird and his Bird Corporation developed a conversion for the PBY Catalina to improve performance.

Black Boneens

The term Boneen is Newfoundland Gaelic dialect for a young pig (derived from Dineen > Erse Gaelic).

Brice Goldsborough

Washington Post; December 26, 1927; New York, December 25, 1927 (Associated Press) Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, who has been missing since she took off Friday with three companions for Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, was preparing to undertake her fourth attempt within three months to fly the Atlantic in her Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Dawn.

Catalina affair

The second aircraft to be shot down was a Swedish Air Force Tp 47, a Catalina flying boat, involved in the search and rescue operation for the missing DC-3.

Catalina Cruz

She later increased the size of her breasts to DD and changed her name to Catalina Cruz because she has been "told just about daily that I resemble Penélope Cruz with large breasts".

Catalina Foothills High School

The Catalina Foothills School District was also involved in a 1993 Supreme Court case, Zobrest v. Catalina Foothills School District.

Catalina Lercaro

This marriage of convenience did not please Catalina, who on her wedding day decided to kill herself by leaping into the pit which is located in the courtyard of the family mansion (now the Museum of the History of Tenerife).

Catalina Magnet High School

In the 1960s Catalina was known as the Disneyland for the higher income students who attended Catalina from central Tucson and the Catalina Foothills.

Catalina Vallejos

Catalina Alejandra Vallejos Sepulveda (born October 10, 1989) is a Chilean model and television personality best known for winning Miss ATP in 2009 and Calle 7 in 2010 and 2011.

Cromarty Firth

During World War II, there was a large training and operational base for Catalina amphibians and Sunderland seaplanes, which extended from Invergordon to Alness point - also now an industrial estate.

Fernando von Reichenbach

Catalina or graphic analog converter (1967): capable of synthesizing sounds following an analog score by a video camera.

Gaspar Méndez de Haro, 7th Marquis of Carpio


His mother was Catalina Fernández de Córdoba y Aragón, the youngest daughter of Enrique Fernández de Córdoba Cardona y Aragón, a Grandee of Spain, 5th Duke of Segorbe, 6th Duke of Cardona, 4th Marquis of Comares, 6th Marquis of Pallarés, 36th Count of Ampurias, 11th Count of Prades and many other lesser titles, and Catalina Fernández de Córdoba y Figueroa.

Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal

The Great Recycling and Northern Development (GRAND) Canal of North America or GCNA is a water management proposal designed by Newfoundland engineer Thomas Kierans to alleviate North American freshwater shortage problems.

Heinrich Timm

The U-862 sank five merchantmen and also shot down a British Catalina flying boat of No. 265 Squadron RAF while en route.

Henry Collingwood

Born St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada and educated at Prince of Wales Collegiate in St. John's, Collingwood began his working career at the family firm of Baine Johnston in 1934.

Herman Maxwell Batten

Born in Bareneed, Conception Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, he was elected to the Canadian House of Commons in 1953 as a Member of the Liberal Party to represent the riding of Humber—St. George's and re-elected in the elections of 1957, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1965 and he was defeated in the election of 1968 in the riding of Humber—St. George's—St. Barbe.

Ki Adams

Mr. Adams is Music Director at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in St. John's, Newfoundland and has recently retired after 14 years as Associate Conductor and Accompanist of Shallaway (formerly the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir).

Laurieton, New South Wales

A Catalina seaplane carrying entertainer Bob Hope was forced to make an emergency landing on Camden Haven adjacent to Laurieton on August 14, 1944.

Manuel Barbeyto

Barbeyto was born in Tondo, Manila, where he was raised by his parents, Inocencio Barbeyto and Catalina Costosa.

Marcelo Figueras

Cartagena Film Festival: Golden India Catalina Award; Best Screenplay for Kamchatka, 2003.

Martin Mate

He held incumbencies at Pushthrough, St. Barbe, Cookshire, Catalina, Bonavista Bay and Pouch Cove before his ordination to the episcopate

Mary Beth Harshbarger

Mary Beth Harshbarger (born February 19, 1965) is an American woman who rose to media attention when she shot her husband, Mark Harshbarger, during a hunting trip in Newfoundland, Canada.

Mount Lemmon

The Catalina Highway, also called the Mount Lemmon Highway, as well as the Hitchcock Highway (after Frank Harris Hitchcock) runs up the Santa Catalina Mountains from the east side of Tucson up to Summerhaven, at the top of Mt. Lemmon.

No. 43 Squadron RAAF

Equipped with Catalina aircraft the Squadron flew its first operational patrols from Karumba on 8 September.

Omar Blondahl

Omar Blondahl, (6 February 1923 – 11 December 1993), also known as "Sagebrush Sam", was a musician who became fascinated with the largely unrecorded folk songs of Newfoundland, Canada, and became famous for popularizing them.

Rex Yetman

Rex Yetman (1933 – December 18, 2009) hailed from Jamestown, Newfoundland, Canada.

Riverwood Academy

Riverwood Academy is a school with an enrollment of 330 students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 from nine different communities in the Gander Bay area of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell

He was invited by Bishop Spencer, of Newfoundland, to go to Bermuda, where he was made deacon in December 1842, and priest in March 1843, and was also appointed domestic chaplain to the bishop and inspector of schools in the colony.

Rogers TV

Rogers TV broadcasts into the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario.

Santa Catalina de Guale

After two major slave raiding attacks in 1680, the Santa Catalina de Guale mission was moved south to Sapelo Island.

In 1684 the Santa Catalina de Guale mission was moved to Amelia Island in present-day Florida.

Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental

The town of Santa Catalina got its name after the supposedly miraculous image of the patron saint, Santa Catalina de Alejandria, installed in the community chapel.

Seducing Doctor Lewis

Producer Roger Frappier wanted to film Seducing Doctor Lewis in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada but the film was eventually shot on an island with a population of about 300, Harrington Harbour, Quebec, Canada.

Service Improvement Plan

The CRTC held regional consultations on the issues of PN 97-42 in eight locations from Whitehorse, Yukon to Deer Lake, Newfoundland and Labrador during May and June 1998, and received comments and submissions from the public, telephone companies and other organizations.

Snipe Hansen

Jim Vitti, author of The Cubs on Catalina, told of Hansen's trip to the bottom of a canyon on the island, led by two teammates who gave him a burlap bag and disappeared, ostensibly to flush out the snipe.

The Isles of Notre Dame

The District of The Isles of Notre Dame shall consist of and include all that part of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador to include the islands of Twillingate, New World Island, Change Islands, Fogo Island and the following adjacent islands: Black Island, Western Indian Island, Eastern Indian Island and Bacalhao Island.

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour

In 1632, after the death of his father George, (1579-1632), the first Lord Baltimore, and late loyal friend and Secretary of State, King Charles I renewed the grant originally made to his father, with the proprietorship of Maryland after an earlier unsuccessful colony of Avalon in Newfoundland.

Thomas Francis Brennan

Two years later, on February 1, 1893, he was transferred to the titular see of Utilla, and was made Auxiliary to Bishop Thomas James Power of St. John's, Newfoundland.

Transatlantic communications cable

It was laid between Gallanach Bay, near Oban, Scotland and Clarenville, Newfoundland between 1955 and 1956 by the cable ship Monarch.

Transatlantic crossing

Transatlantic radio communication was first accomplished on December 12, 1901 by Guglielmo Marconi who, using a temporary receiving station at Signal Hill, Newfoundland, received a Morse code signal representing the letter "S" sent from Poldhu, in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

William P. Anderson

Among the more important works may be mentioned the Colchester Reef lighthouse (1885) on a caisson in Lake Erie, the construction and installation in 1898 of the first-order fog siren station on Belle Isle (Newfoundland and Labrador), and the nine flying buttress lighthouses at Pointe-au-Pere, Escarpement Bagot, Estevan Point, Michipicoten Island, Caribou Island, Belle Isle Northeast, Cape Bauld, Cape Norman, and Cape Anguille.

Yampi Sound

During World War II, several raids were launched against the Japanese forces in Borneo and Java using Catalina Flying Boats by the RAAF from Cockatoo Island in Yampi Sound.


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