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unusual facts about Fort William, Newfoundland



1628 in poetry

Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland

342d Fighter Day Group

The enemy was on the defensive, and the American defensive outposts in the Atlantic (Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Bermuda) were shifting to secondary roles.

Aksel Sandemose

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

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.

Bergall

The bergall, alxo known as the cunner, conner or chogset, Tautogolabrus adspersus, is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic, where it is found from the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland to the Chesapeake Bay.

Binic

The port annually receives 150 to 160 ships and the activity was divided between fishing in Newfoundland and cabotage (imported salt, wine, wood North, flour and vegetables).

Black Boneens

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

Blue Ensign

Yachts belonging to members of certain long-established Canadian yacht clubs, such as, the Royal Cape Breton Yacht Club, Champlain Yacht Club, Montreal Yacht Club, Royal Canadian Yacht Club, Royal Kennebaccasis Yacht Club, Royal Lake of the Woods Yacht Club, Royal Newfoundland Yacht Club, Royal St. Lawrence Yacht Club, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, and Royal Victoria Yacht Club.

Camanachd Cup

The 2009 final was held at Mossfield Park, Oban between Kyles Athletic and holders Fort William on 19 September.

Canalipalpata

The earliest known member of the Canalipalpata is Terebellites franklini, which was found in the Clouds Rapids Formation of Newfoundland, and dates from the mid Cambrian (St David's series).

Charles Bellamy

Bellamy's career first began during the summer of 1717 when he raided three ships off the coast of both New England and New Brunswick, before sailing northwards to establish a fortified encampment somewhere in the Bay of Fundy (most likely Saint Andrew's where he continued attacking fishing and raiding ships off the southern coast of Newfoundland.

Charles Feake

He was born in Cossimbazar in West Bengal, where his father was governor of Fort William (1718 to 1723).

CJON

CJON-DT, a television station (channel 21) licensed to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Commander, Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet

In 1955, Barrier Force, Atlantic had been established in Argentia, Newfoundland, flying radar early-warning missions using the WV-2 (EC-121 Warning Star aircraft in the North Atlantic from 1957.

Don Allum

In September 1987 Allum completed his westward crossing of the Atlantic, from St John's, Newfoundland to Dooagh on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland.

Early modern Britain

The British Empire was territorially enlarged: from France, gaining Newfoundland and Acadia, and from Spain, Gibraltar and Minorca.

Eric Blackwood

Newfoundland Aero Sales and Servivce was eventually sold to Maritime Central Airways in 1949.

Fort William, Ghana

In 1698, the Royal African Company "licensed" ship captains not in its employment upon the payment of a 10% "affiliation fee" to enable them to trade in its areas of monopoly.

Grand Bruit, Newfoundland and Labrador

Located east of Channel-Port aux Basques, Grand Bruit was experiencing depopulation related to changing economic and demographic conditions in rural Newfoundland, in particular the collapse of the Newfoundland cod fisheries in the early 1990s.

Henry Blackwood

Early in 1798 Brilliant was sent out to join Admiral Waldegrave on the Newfoundland station; and on 26 July, whilst standing close in to the bay of Santa Cruz in quest of a French privateer, she observed the frigates Vertu and Régénérée preparing to sail for Rochefort.

Indigenous languages of the Americas

These encounters occurred between the beginning of the 11th century (with the Nordic settlement of Greenland and failed efforts at Labrador and Newfoundland) and the end of the 15th century (the voyages of Christopher Columbus).

Jerry Mercer

Gerald "Jerry" Mercer (born April 27, 1939 in Newfoundland) is a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his work with the groups Mashmakhan and April Wine.

Joan Cook

Cook has also been heavily involved with charitable efforts, chairing fundraising campaigns for Newfoundland's branch of the Canadian Cancer Society.

Jonathan Miles

Reginald F. Sparkes (1906 – January 1990): educator, author and political figure in Newfoundland who wrote a weekly column under the name "Jonathan Miles"

Joseph Broussard

In the Action of 8 June 1755, a naval battle off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on board the French ships Alcide and Lys were found 10,000 scalping knives for Acadians and Indians serving under Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and Acadian Beausoleil as they continue to fight Father Le Loutre's War.

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).

La Isabela

The only earlier European settlements in America were settlements by the Vikings in Greenland and Newfoundland which dated from 500 years earlier.

Litoceras

Litoceras is a trocholitid (Tarphycerida) genus that has been found in the Lower and Middle Ordovician of Newfoundland.

Lochgoilhead

A few miles north of Lochgoilhead, is a junction which on the left goes through Hell's Glen, Loch Fyne, Dunoon, Inverary, Lochawe, Oban, Tyndrum, Glencoe and Fort William.

Maianthemum trifolium

Maianthemum trifolium (syn. Smilacina trifolia, Three-leaf Solomon’s-seal, three-leaf Solomon’s-plume, smilacine trifoliée) is a species of flowering plant that is native to Canada and the northeastern United States, from Yukon and British Columbia east to Newfoundland and south to Delaware.

Max Gottschalk

The Newfoundland government assigned him the task of designing workshop furniture for the agricultural community of Markland.

Michael Schoeffling

Schoeffling lives with his wife, Valerie L. Robinson of Virginia, also a former model, in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania.

Mickey Hennessy

He was first elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1977 provincial election, defeating New Democratic Party candidate Iain Angus by 2,256 votes in Fort William.

Music of Newfoundland and Labrador

Radio programs such as Irene B. Mellon and The Big Six, the television shows All Around The Circle (1964) and Ryan's Fancy, collections such as Gerald S. Doyle's Old Time Songs and Poetry of Newfoundland, musicians including accordionists Ray Walsh, Wilf Doyle, Omar Blondahl, John White and the McNulty Family, and scholars including Maud Karpeles also contributed to the preservation of Newfoundland and Labrador music.

Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve

When World War I began Walter Edward Davidson, the governor of Newfoundland, committed to increasing the Reserve to 1000 men, and to do so relaxed some of the age and health requirements for joining.

North Atlantic Tracks

Air Traffic Controllers responsible for the Gander FIR are based at the Gander Oceanic Control Centre in Gander, Newfoundland, Canada.

North Harbour

North Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, a community on St. Mary's Bay, Newfoundland, Canada

Pan Am Flight 115

At 22.05 GMT (16.05EDT) on 3 February 1959 it was involved in one of the most notable jet upset incidents of the jet airliner age, over the North Atlantic near Newfoundland.

Penmarch

It owed its prosperity to its cod-banks, the disappearance of which together with the discovery of the Newfoundland cod-banks and the pillage of the place by the bandit La Fontenelle in 1595 contributed to its decline.

Peter L. Gluck

After designing a series of houses from New York to Newfoundland, Gluck went to Tokyo to design large projects for Takenaka Komuten Co., LTD a leading Japanese construction consortium.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario

Little further expansion took place until about 1836 when Rev. Proulx began an expansion which reached Fort William in 1849.

Scopula frigidaria

It is found from Fennoscandia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and in northern North America, where it occurs across the boreal forest region, from Alaska across the Northwest Territories and Nunavut to Newfoundland, and in the mountains south to southern Wisconsin, Alberta and British Columbia.

Sealed Cargo

He reluctantly agrees to transport Margaret McLean to Trabo, a small community in Newfoundland.

Swami Shyam

In 1986, at the First International Yog Conference in New Delhi, Swami Shyam was awarded the Yog Shiromani Award by the President of India, Giani Zail Singh, for his work in the field of meditation and Self Realization and the 1974 Integrity Award presented by Geoff Stirling on behalf of Apache Communications in Gander, 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.

Transylvanian Society of Dracula

The Canadian chapter is run by Prof. Elizabeth Miller, Professor of English (retired) at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, author, among others, of “Dracula, Sense & Nonsense” and a facsimile edition of Bram Stoker's notes for Dracula.

Turbidity current

Within minutes after the 1929 Grand Banks earthquake occurred off the coast of Newfoundland, transatlantic telephone cables began breaking sequentially, farther and farther downslope, away from the epicenter.

WGB

Wonderful Grand Band, a music and comedy group from Newfoundland, Canada

Women's Patriotic Association

The WPA began in St. John’s on August 31, 1914, when the wife of the Governor, Lady Margaret Davidson, called upon the women of Newfoundland to “do their bit” for the war effort.

YBI

Black Tickle Airport, the IATA code for the airport in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


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