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72 unusual facts about 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.

Avalon Peninsula Campaign

The following year construction began on professionally engineered fortifications at Fort William.

The Avalon Peninsula Campaign occurred during King Williams War when forces of New France, led by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville and Governor Jacques-François de Monbeton de Brouillan, destroyed 23 English settlements along the coast of the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland in the span of three months.

Belsnickel

The tradition also exists in parts of Newfoundland, the prairie provinces of Canada and some communities in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

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).

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself

In the book, the author chronicles his experiences as a volunteer firefighter in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Burry Port

On 17 June 1928 Amelia Earhart flew from Newfoundland with co-pilots Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and Louis "Slim" Gordon in a Fokker F7 and on 18 June landed safely in Burry Port, becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

C.B. Colby

In 1943 he became aviation editor of Popular Science magazine and became a war correspondent with the U.S. Army Air Forces in Newfoundland, Labrador, and Alaska.

Canada–France Maritime Boundary Case

The zone that was awarded to France was unusual and in two parts: first, the boundary was set at an equidistant line between the French islands and the Canadian island of Newfoundland.

Canadian system of soil classification

They occur commonly in the more humid parts of the area of Podzolic soils; e.g., coastal British Columbia and parts of Newfoundland and southern Quebec.

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).

Cantino planisphere

Newfoundland was probably visited by an English expedition in 1497-98, and again, by the Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real in 1500 and 1501.

Carabus nemoralis

Carabus nemoralis is a ground beetle common in central and northern Europe, as well as Iceland and the island of Newfoundland.

Chapel Island Formation

The Chapel Island Formation is a sedimentary formation from the Burin Peninsula, Newfoundland, Canada.

Charles-Henri-Louis d'Arsac de Ternay

In 1762, late in the Seven Years' War, Ternay was chosen to lead a secret expedition against the British-controlled island of Newfoundland.

Most active in the Seven Years' War and the War of American Independence, Ternay was the naval commander of a 1762 expedition that successfully captured St. John's Newfoundland.

Consolidated PB2Y Coronado

The 10 aircraft were used for trans-Atlantic flights, staging through the RAF base at Darrell's Island, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, though the aircraft were used to deliver vital cargo and equipment in a transportation network that stretched down both sides of the Atlantic, from Newfoundland, to Brazil, and to Nigeria, and other parts of Africa.

Copyright Act 1911

The Copyright Act 1911 was adapted to circumstances and enacted by the then self-governing dominions of Australia (Copyright Act 1912), Newfoundland (Newfoundland Copyright Act 1912) and the Union of South Africa (Patents, Designs, Trade Marks and Copyright Act 1916).

Curtiss NC

The other three NCs, NC-1, NC-3, and NC-4, set out on what was intended as the first demonstration of transatlantic flight, via Newfoundland and the Azores, on 8 May 1919.

Fire in the Abyss

The last which recorded history knows of Gilbert is that he and his ship the "Squirrel", were lost in a severe storm off Newfoundland in 1583.

Friedrich Martens

Among the controversies which he sat as judge or arbitrator were: the Pious Fund Affair, between Mexico and the United States – the first case determined by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague – and the dispute between Great Britain and France over Newfoundland in 1891.

He represented Russia at the Hague Peace Conferences, (during which he drafted the Martens Clause), and helped to settle the first cases of international arbitration, notably the dispute between France and Great Britain over Newfoundland.

Geocaulon

It is native to northern North America, where it is common and widespread from Alaska to Newfoundland and into the northernmost contiguous United States.

Helianthus nuttallii

Helianthus nuttallii (Nuttall's Sunflower) is a species of sunflower native to northern and western North America, from Newfoundland west to British Columbia, south to New Mexico and California.

History of the Acadians

The French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon near Newfoundland became a safe harbor for many Acadian families until they were once again deported by the British in 1778 and 1793.

HMS Delight

She may not have been part of the Royal Navy, and was possibly part of Sir Humphrey Gilbert's 1583 expedition to Newfoundland.

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).

Johan Alfred Björling

His route passed through Newfoundland, where he met bought a schooner called Ripple for the trip north.

John Frederick Dewey

During this period he produced a series of classic papers centered around the history of the Appalachians in Newfoundland as well as the Scottish and Irish Caledonides.

Following a period as lecturer at the University of Manchester (1960–64), the University of Cambridge (1964–70) and Memorial University of Newfoundland (1971), Dewey was appointed Professor of Geology at the State University of New York at Albany.

Joseph Banks: A Life

The biography covers Banks' life including his voyages to Newfoundland and the most famous episode, the three-year voyage of the HM Bark Endeavour, captained by James Cook.

La Isabela

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

Labrador wolf

In the late 2000s and early 2010s, there were several confirmed and unconfirmed sightings of the Labrador wolf on the island of Newfoundland which was surprising since the native wolf was hunted to extinction.

Lanier W. Phillips

After giving speeches at schools across the U.S., Phillips was awarded an honorary degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2008 for his efforts to end discrimination.

Lanier W. Phillips (March 14, 1923 – March 11, 2012) was a survivor of the wreck of the USS Truxtun off the coast of Newfoundland, a retired oceanographer and a recipient of the U.S. Navy Memorial's Lone Sailor award for his distinguished post Navy civilian career.

Laurentian Channel

The channel is of glacial origin and is the submerged valley of the historic St. Lawrence River, running 1400 km from a sharp escarpment downstream from the confluence of the St. Lawrence with the Saguenay River, past Anticosti Island and through the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the edge of the continental shelf off the island of Newfoundland.

Limonium

Limonium carolinianum (Carolina Sea-lavender; eastern North America, Newfoundland to Bermuda, Florida and Tamaulipas; syn. L. angustatum, L. nashii)

Litoceras

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

Louise Huntington

Director Varick Frissell, cinematographer Alexander G. Penrod, and almost all the film crew were killed on March 15, 1931, when the sealing ship SS Viking, from which they were shooting additional footage, exploded in ice off the Horse Islands on the northern Newfoundland coast.

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.

Maritime history of Colonial America

The beginnings go back to at least as far as the first European contact with the Americas, when Leif Erikson established a short-lived settlement called Vinland in present day Newfoundland.

Michael Schoeffling

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

MV Peter Faber

In the Fall of 2008 the Peter Faber will be laying a telecommunication cable connecting Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland.

Neodiprion abietis

Female sawflies in Newfoundland lay their eggs in late September or early October using their saw-like ovipositor into foliage of the current year or foliage of the previous year.

Newfoundland-Labrador fixed link

It was again put forward by mining engineer Tom Kierans during the early 1970s as a means to bring hydroelectricity from Churchill Falls to the island part of the province.

No More Fish, No Fishermen

No More Fish, No Fishermen is a song, the lyrics for which were composed by Canadian folklorist Shelley Posen, about the demise of the Newfoundland fishery.

Northern long-eared myotis

This species is found primarily in coniferous forest from Newfoundland to the Yukon, and in the southeastern United States through to Florida.

Ohio Country

Trying to improve relations with the Native Americans to encourage trade and avoid conflicts with colonists, George III in his Royal Proclamation of 1763 placed the Ohio Country in what was declared an Indian Reserve, stretching from the Appalachian Mountains west to the Mississippi River and from as far north as Newfoundland to Florida.

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.

Panther, Pennsylvania

Panther was originally located between the towns of Canadensis, La Anna, and Newfoundland.

Pat and Joe Byrne

The Pat and Joe Byrne band is a quintessential Newfoundland traditional folk music group that is notorious for writing songs about the lifestyle that goes with living on the island of 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.

Porlock Bay

The type of geomorphological development seen at Porlock has been noted for coastal shingle systems elsewhere (e.g. west coast of Newfoundland, Canada).

Port au Choix Archaeological Site

A Maritime Archaic Indian cemetery dates as far back as 4400 B.P. 4 was found in 1967 by James Tuck, of Memorial University of Newfoundland, who excavated 56 graves, determined to be between 4400 and 3300 years old 3.

Ralph T. Pastore

Ralph T. Pastore, historian and archaeologist, late of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's NFLD, discovered the Boyd's Cove Beothuk settlement.

Rob Oliphant

Oliphant has been stationed in diverse communities such as Montreal, Toronto, Quyon, Quebec, Newfoundland and Whitehorse.

Saint-Pierre-en-Port

The growth of fishing in Newfoundland also took sailors away from the village to spend 9 months at sea.

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.

Scouting and Guiding in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland is administratively connected to Labrador in the Newfoundland and Labrador Council of Scouts Canada.

Sealed Cargo

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

Shorthanded, he hires Danish sailor Konrad, and the Daniel Webster sails for the Grand Banks fishing grounds.

Shane Peacock

It was based on an ocean-kayaking trip he took to a ghost-town island off the coast of Newfoundland.

SS Abyssinia

At 12:40 pm on 18 December 1891 off the coast of Newfoundland a fire broke out in her cargo hold which quickly overpowered her crew's firefighting efforts.

St. John's College, Waterford

In the 1830s the college established a mission to Newfoundland in Canada, over the years the a number of priests trained would have served dioceses around the world, with about 250 serving in the United States.

Stigmatogaster subterranea

Stigmatogaster subterranea is a species of centipede in the family Himantariidae that can be found in Central Europe, Ireland, Newfoundland, Scandinavia and the United Kingdom.

Teleophthalmology

A number of teleophthalmology programs exist in Canada, including those in the provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Newfoundland, Ontario, and Quebec.

Terreneuvian

The name Terreneuvian is derived from Terre Nueve, a French name for the island of Newfoundland, Canada, where many rocks of this age are found, including the type section.

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.

Women in early radio

Guglielmo Marconi achieved international fame in 1901 when he succeeded in sending a simple message in Morse code - the letter "s" - across the Atlantic from Cornwall in England to Newfoundland.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

On 1 September 1985, a joint French-American expedition led by Jean-Louis Michel of IFREMER and Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution identified the location of the wreck of the RMS Titanic which sank off the coast of Newfoundland 15 April 1912.


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

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.

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.

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.

Churchill Falls Generating Station

In 1953 British Newfoundland Development Corporation (Brinco) was formed by the Rothschilds and six partners: two paper companies: Bowater and Anglo-Newfoundland; a manufacturer, English Electric; and mining concerns Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Frobisher.

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.

Dale Kirby

As chairperson of the Newfoundland and Labrador component of the Canadian Federation of Students in the 1990s, Kirby led a successful campaign to freeze college and university tuition fees in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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.

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.

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.

John Slany

Slany's interest in Newfoundland was heightened by favorable reports from John Guy and William Colston of the vast riches to be had in Newfoundland.

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).

Max Gottschalk

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

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 general election, 1959

*The CCF supported the Newfoundland Democratic Party which was founded by the Newfoundland Federation of Labour to run candidates as a protest against the Liberal government's decertification of the International Woodworkers of America in the course of a logging strike.

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

Recollects

In Newfoundland, Recollect friars established a friary in 1689 at the island's capital, Plaisance (now Placentia), which was staffed until 1701 by friars from Saint-Denis, near Paris.

Sandy Point, Newfoundland and Labrador

Various levels of government are undertaking a process to create the territory as an historical site and conservation area for the numerous species of migratory birds which inhabit the island during the summer months; these include Piping Plovers, with the Sandy Point colony comprising between 15-30% of Newfoundland's overall plover population.

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.

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