Posts tagged with ‘newfoundland’ (6)
Posted by Heather Yundt
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on Thursday, March 07, 2013
The folk-country music legend Stompin' Tom Connors died yesterday at the age of 77.
The Canadian icon recorded 61 albums over his career, 10 of which, according to his website, have yet to be released.
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Posted by Heather Yundt
in Mapping
on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
View Canada's most romantic place names in a larger mapLucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables novels put Prince Edward Island — and Canada — on the map as a place of evocative place names.
Lover’s Lane, Willowmere, Violet Vale and the Lake of Shining Waters were just some of the names the spirited Anne Shirley gave her favourite spots around the Cuthbert farm.
Those place names were a product of the author’s imagination, but Canada has plenty of romantic place names that could be mistaken for something out of Montgomery's books.
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Posted by Heather Yundt
on Tuesday, January 22, 2013
[View the story "The state of geographic education in Canada" on Storify]The state of geographic education in CanadaWhen a Memorial University professor spoke out about her students' poor knowledge of basic geography, she sparked a national conversation. Storified by Canadian Geographic· Tue, Jan 22 2013 11:14:16
In mid-January, 2013, Professor Judith Adler of Memorial University told media her students were failing even the most basic geography quizzes.
Professor says students can't identify ...
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Todd and I were in Nain, Labrador last week getting ready to head out into the wilds of Nunatsiavut and Nunavik. I’d conducted a bunch of interviews already to get a perspective of the landcsape from the Labrador Inuit and others who've lived on the land and the coast here for generations.
On the two-day ferry ride up, I interviewed Captain Robert Gillard of the MV Northern Ranger, a Canadian ice-breaking ferry, who's plied the coastal waters of Newfoundland for 54 years. Since he began his ...
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After weeks of what felt like endless expedition preparations, we set sail from the northern coast of Newfoundland into the cold waters of the Labrador sea, both of us tired men. We were thankfully met with gentle winds which let us complete some unfinished work, catch up on some much needed sleep and give Rana, our on board documentary filmmaker friend, time to strengthen his stomach and find his sea legs.
While the Labrador Sea provided us with great winds, cold foggy conditions made for damp, ...
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