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Medicos and Vikings and a MOOSE
... cards. He married an heiress and together they worked hard in the northern part of Canada. He was also a celebrated lecturer and was often invited to talk to groups across the world. His legacy to Canada’s northern regions was the health services that he set up.
Opposite the museum is a new hospital. We were told that if we had a chance, we should pop in and have a look at the mural on the walls in the hospital’s entrance. After ...
Cod Fish, Tapestry, and Lots of Irish Music
... town’s archives at the museum.
As we did not have enough excitement for one day, we were taken to the community hall, where the ladies of the town had cooked up a cod dinner for us all. I believe that the pieces of cod were taken from the town’s annual quota. The cod was accompanied by fresh Conche potatoes, carrots and peas. The entertainment had started with the town’s current intellectual reading part of her thesis on ...
Impromptu Visit to St Anthony
... 8211; until we berthed at a real harbour-St Anthony's, Newfoundland. Somehow we have missed almost half of the Labrador coastline due to high winds and bad weather. However, the small port of St Anthony’s was calm and we were going to stay for almost 24 hours in the one spot.
We were given some briefings on St Anthony and what we could find there, and the cruise director had organised for us to visit the St Anthony Mission, where ...
Vikings and more
... we noticed many folks planting gardens by the side of the road. After our inquiry we were told that the topsoil there was much deeper than anywhere else and they could get 30 60-lb sacks of potatoes from one small plot. Potatoes of course store for the entire winter. Each person's plot was his own and no one touched anyone's elses. Also wood for firewood was stacked along the highway in huge quantities and folks would come and cut into ...
Icebergs and the Strait of Belle Isle
Visited L'Anse aux Meadows again to check out the Viking story in the new world. On the drive to Saint Barbe we stopped at Dark Tickle for some Partridgeberry, Cloudberry and Bakeapple preserves. Learned that a tickle is a narrow salt water ...
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