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Showing posts with label Newfoundland history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newfoundland history. Show all posts
10 March 2020

NL after the oil boom and hydro bust #nlpoli

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Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society George Story Lecture and Annual General Meeting Marine Institute - Hampton Hall The R...
30 April 2018

Two solitudes - the pdf version #nlpoli

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This is an article I wrote a couple of years ago for  The Dorchester Review.  (Volume 6, Number 1,  Spring/Summer 2016.  I posted about the ...
28 February 2017

Escape Hatch #nlpoli

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Historian Gerhard bassler's new book from Flanker  examines efforts by the Government of Newfoundland to develop local industry by recru...
04 July 2016

Two Solitudes #nlpoli

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"Newfoundland and Canada , separate countries for so long, exist as two solitudes within the bosom of a single country more than 65...
03 July 2015

Through a glass, darkly #nlpoli

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Imagine that Newfoundland history is enclosed inside a gigantic room.  Inside the room everything is pitch black. Every now and again,  so...
02 July 2015

The Great War and Newfoundland Political Memory #nlpoli

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“It is sobering to think,”  historian Sean Cadigan wrote in the Telegram on Tuesday, “that the memory of the casualties of war has been use...
21 August 2014

Identity Crisis #nlpoli

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Newfoundland is changing, Michael Crummey writes in the Newfoundland nationalists’ newspaper, the Globe and Mail.   House prices are climbin...
16 July 2014

Shapes and sizes #nlpoli

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The Duke of Connaught,  Governor General of Canada and uncle of King George, visited St. John’s in the middle of July, 1914.  During his vis...
18 November 2013

Remembering… or not #nlpoli

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The news release that announced a provincial commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the First World War includes right at the start a pi...
01 July 2013

The Great War and Newfoundland Nationalism #nlpoli

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This is a revised version of post that originally appeared on July 4, 2012. ___________________________________ Mark Humphries is an ...
12 November 2012

Some Thoughts on Politics, Myth, and Identity #nlpoli

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Your humble e-scribbler saw a couple of comments last week that said the NDP town hall on Muskrat Falls was a good argument against having a...
04 July 2012

Beaumont Hamel and the Newfoundland nation #nlpoli

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Mark Humphries is an historian at Memorial University.  He spoke with CBC’s Chris O’Neill-Yates on July 1 about the impact of Beaumont Hame...
09 May 2012

A river runs through it #nlpoli

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Jerry Bannister’s paper “A river runs through it:  Churchill Falls and the end of Newfoundland history” is now available in the latest issue...
26 July 2009

The Newfoundland Flag: Great War version

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For those who have been following the Newfoundland flag posts , here’s another contribution that may well surprise some people. This is a...
29 May 2009

Everything old is new again, fisheries version

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From the New York Times , November 2, 1889, quoting a report by the Newfoundland Chamber of Commerce: The lobster fishery has been expa...

Newfoundland pre-Confederation trade, a snapshot

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As reported by the New York Times , 1889 Exports: Destination Amount (US $) ...
14 November 2008

Free Newfoundland!

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From a comment by Wallace Ryan on a cbc.ca/nl story : Despite the ugly words of Canadians, Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are finally...
14 September 2008

Full moon and a call to arms

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Justice minister Jerome Kennedy took time to call the Sunday evening talk show at the voice of the cabinet minister to lambaste Stephen Harp...