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54 unusual facts about Newfoundland and Labrador


1575 in poetry

August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, 'Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, was the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.

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

2004 World U-17 Hockey Challenge

The two main venues were the Mile One Stadium in St. John's and the Glacier Arena in Mount Pearl, while the S. W. Moores Arena in Harbour Grace and the Whitbourne Arena were also used for exhibition games.

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.

Adele Fifield

Born in Trinity East, Newfoundland, Canada, Fifield enrolled in The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program after losing a leg to cancer at the age of 13.

Aksel Sandemose

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

Anthony Cohen

He conducted fieldwork in Springdale, Newfoundland (1968–70) on local-level politics; and in Whalsay (1973–90), the longest sustained study of a rural British community ever undertaken.

Area code 709

Stephenville 709 - 214, 283, 444, 641, 643, 646, 649, 721

Gander 709 - 234, 235, 256, 287, 422, 424, 571, 651

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.

Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve

Burnt Cape Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve located within the town of Raleigh, Newfoundland and Labrador, and just northwest of Pistolet Bay Provincial Park.

CJRM-FM

On July 21, 2009, Radio communautaire du Labrador Inc. applied to add rebroadcasterrs in La Grand'Terre (on 96.1 FM CKIP) and St. John's (on 95.7 FM CKIJ).

translator = CKIJ-FM 95.7 St. John's
CKIP-FM 96.1 La Grand'Terre

Cressie

Cressie is a mysterious, eel-like creature which is reputed to lurk in the depths of Crescent Lake in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Donovans, Newfoundland and Labrador

Donovans was a village located west of St. John's.

Doris Saunders

Saunders was born in Cartwright, Labrador in 1941 and was the second child of six.

Geoffrey Malcolm Gathorne-Hardy

In 1910 he travelled with H. Hesketh Prichard from Nain, Newfoundland and Labrador to Indian House Lake on George River, and contributed a chapter on fishing to Prichard's Through trackless Labrador (1911).

George Garland, Jr.

At the age of 14, he was sent to Trinity in Newfoundland to be trained in the fishery operated by his family.

Grand Falls-Windsor

On the other hand, the town is slightly over two hours east of Deer Lake, two hours and forty-five minutes east of Corner Brook and close to five hours east of Port Aux Basques, when traveling on the Newfoundland and Labrador Route 1, part of the Trans-Canada Highway.

Harry Mews

Henry George Reginald (Harry) Mews (December 18, 1897- January 6, 1982) was the eighth mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland and a political leader in the province.

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.

Hyalophora cecropia

In August 2012, a cecropia moth caterpillar was accidentally imported from Ontario to St. John’s, Newfoundland, via a shipment of dogwood shrubs.

John Charles Puddester

He was born in Northern Bay, the son of Mark Puddester and Sarah Sellers.

Julian Moreton

He raised money to build a new church on Pinchard's Island and to pay lay readers in the mission.

Kate Corbett

Kate Corbett (born in Holyrood, Newfoundland and Labrador) is a Canadian actress best known for her role in Family Biz.

L. E. Emerson

He even travelled to London to attend negotiations for the Leased Bases Agreement, which granted the United States 99-year leases to military bases in Stephenville, Pleasantville, Goose Bay, Argentia etc.

Leo Ferrari

Ferrari was reported to have nearly fallen off "the Edge" of the Earth at Brimstone Head on Fogo Island.

Little Harbour

Little Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador, a drive-through community of about 15 families in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Loch Leven

Loch Leven, Newfoundland and Labrador, a lake and inhabited place in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

Markland, Newfoundland and Labrador

The "Markland experiment" began in the spring of that year when a group of private citizens in St. John's vouched for the Commission of Government to give them relief payments for farming and agriculture.

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.

Moses Morgan

Born in Blaketown, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Morgan was educated at Bishop Feild College and Memorial University College.

Mount Pearl

Southlands, a neighbourhood in St. John's was a large part of Mount Pearl's future growth plans for filling in the area between its boundary and Cochrane Pond Provincial Park.

No-kill shelter

In 2009, the Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada provincial government and the town of Stephenville began negotiations to close their no-kill animal shelter, claiming that upwards of 100 dogs and cats with diseases or behavioral problems were suffering severe neglect.

Norstead

Norstead (Newfoundland), a reconstructed Viking-age village and port near L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland and Labrador

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

North Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador

People worked in St. Joseph's and Admiral's Beach fish plants or commuted to St. John's.

Operation Skyshield

Despite this, the Vulcans achieved unprecedented survivability with seven of the eight British bombers managing to reach their targets and return to Stephenville, Newfoundland unscathed.

Percy Barrett

He was born in Woody Island, the son of Sidney Barrett, and was educated at Memorial University and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

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.

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.

Rex Yetman

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

Richard Hibbs

He represented Fogo from 1919 to 1923 and from 1924 to 1932 and Trinity Bay in 1923 as a member of the Fishermen's Protective Union.

Robert Alsop

He represented Trinity Bay in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 1866 to 1871 as a Liberal and then anti-Confederate.

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.

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.

Ship Harbour, Newfoundland and Labrador

It is 140 kilometers west of St. John's and can be reached on the TransCanada Highway and exiting at the Argentia Access Road.

St. Jones Within, Newfoundland and Labrador

It takes approximately two hours to drive there from the province's capital city, St. John's.

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.

Upper Ferry

Upper Ferry, Newfoundland and Labrador, a settlement on the island of Newfoundland, Canada

William Halfyard

He represented Fogo from 1913 to 1919, Trinity Bay from 1919 to 1928 and Trinity North from 1928 to 1932 in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.

Woody Island

Woody Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, near Garden Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada


2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard

The 2012 Newfoundland and Labrador Tankard men's provincial curling championship, was held February 7-12 at the Carol Curling Club in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador.

40th Canadian Parliament

He was a former Conservative who voted against the 2007 budget, claiming that it broke the Atlantic Accord with his province and Newfoundland and Labrador, and was subsequently expelled from the Conservative caucus.

99-year lease

The Lend-Lease program of the 1940 was enabled by 99-year lease of British bases on several islands (Gander International Airport in Newfoundland) by the Destroyers for Bases Agreement.

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.

Black Boneens

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

Clovelly Trails

Since being developed in the late 1990s, the area has undergone tremendous growth with such businesses as Boston Pizza, Costco, Dominion Supermarket, Future Shop, Wal-Mart, Old Navy and McDonalds moving into the area.

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.

Greg Power

Gregory J. Power (1909 – May 15, 1997) was a politician, office holder, farmer, poet and athlete, who was born in Dunville, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, Canada.

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.

John Gilbert Higgins

As party leader Harry Mews failed to win his seat, Higgins became the province's first Leader of the Opposition.

Julian Moreton

A year later, in 1848, the Bishop of Newfoundland, Edward Feild, accepted Moreton who was recommended by a friend of Feild a prominent High Church clergyman, William Scott of Hoxton.

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).

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.

Nick Wall

Born in Lower Gully, Kelligrews, Conception Bay, Newfoundland, while still a small boy Nick Wall's family moved to Glace Bay, Nova Scotia.

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.

Rawlins Cross, St. John's

A popular Newfoundland Irish band, Rawlins Cross, has taken its name from this St. John's landmark.

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.

Rogers TV

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

Spánverjavígin

Captain Martín de Villafranca of San Sebastián, whose father and grandfather had both been involved in Terra Nova whaling was among those who were killed.

Stephenville International Airport

In 1941 the United States obtained rights to construct a United States Army Air Forces base in the St. George's Bay area of Newfoundland.

Terra Nova National Park

Terra Nova National Park is located on the east coast of Newfoundland in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, along several inlets of Bonavista Bay.

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.

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.