Newfoundland

Canada’s importance as an inventive, courageous, and efficient military. However, the battle of the Somme was not a momentous battle for the Canadians. The main connection Canadian had to this battle was the Newfoundland regiment, but the regiment was not successful in this battle, and Newfoundland was not even a Canadian province yet. Without the Canadian Corps, troops lacked the fresh intellect, bravery, and productivity that Canadians brought to the plate.…

Navigator, Jacques Cartier was born 1491 west of the port of Saint-Malo. Jacques Cartier was a very respectable navigator/mariner that sailed multiple times across many lands in order to find new land. Jacques Cartier become very well known when he married Mary Catherine a women that was in a very good leading family In 1530 Jacques Cartier is also very well known in the in the port of Saint-Malo as he was born near there. First Voyage In 1534 In 1534 around two years after the Duchy of…

Dr. Andrea Kitta is associate professor of English in the Thomas Harriot College of Arts and Sciences. She received her PhD in 2009 from the Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland. That same year she joined the ECU faculty with responsibility for teaching and scholarship in Multicultural and Transnational Literature. Her chair’s nominating letter concluded with the statement: “Dr. Kitta is a terrific and challenging teacher and an internationally recognized scholar.…

“The First Voyage to Roanoke” written by Arthur Barlowe in the year 1584 is a primary source. Although there is little information known about Arthur Barlowe, history has proven that he was once a member of Sir Walter Raleigh’s household. Barlowe’s voyage lead him to land where future settlers would call Virginia and North Carolina. Barlowe writes about how perfect, sweet and plentiful the soil is. Along with all the natural resources spread amongst the land. While in Roanoke, Barlowe interacts…

In America, written and directed by Jim Sheridan, focuses on a family of Irish immigrants who move to New York in the 1980s, and must adjust to their new life. Personal experiences of the Irish during the diaspora have stayed the same throughout this film, for a countless number of reasons including job type, and crime. In America captures real life struggles throughout the eyes of the Irish, and how they had to make the best out of any situation. The Sullivan family emigrates from Ireland to…

It has been widely accepted that Christopher Columbus discovered the Americas. There is undisputable evidence which proves that in fact, other civilizations had first sailed to the Americas. Some of those civilizations are the Viking/Norse and the Polynesians. Who was Christopher Columbus? Columbus was an Italian navigator, who sailed westward across the Atlantic, in his search of new routes to Asia. During the voyage, he indeed reached land, but it was no Asia. He landed on what is known today…

The cod fish has become a major topic of conversation across multiple reaches of different conversation. The once vastly abundant cod fish has dwindled in numbers. The impacts of the depleted cod populations have had great impacts on worldwide economies and ecological systems. It is important to acknowledge how we came to be in such a situation and how our past actions in regards to cod fish will shape our present and future actions. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief chronological…

1928 Amelia received a call from a man asking her if she wanted to become the first woman to fly across the Atlantic. She replied “yes.” Later the team left Trepassey Harbor, Newfoundland in “Friendship”, a Fokker F7. About 21 hours later arrived in Burry Port, Wales. On may 20, 1932 she flew from Grace Harbor, Newfoundland and headed to Paris. Due to poor weather and mechanical problems she had to land near Londonderry, Ireland. Earhart was the first women awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross…

cause was even less popular in New Brunswick, which approved women's suffrage on April 17th, 1919. Prince Edward Island, with practically no popular agitation, changed its Election Act on May 3rd, 1922, and Newfoundland women gained the vote on April 13th, 1925. In Nova Scotia, PEI and Newfoundland, the right to stand for provincial office accompanied voting rights, but New Brunswick avoided that radical step until March 9th, 1934. In Québec, under the courageous leadership of Thérèse Casgrain,…

February 15th, 2016 in Corner Brook Newfoundland. The interview took place in my Chalet on Grenfell campus. We were positioned around my bed in as comfortable position as possible which consisted of me sitting on the bed while Tyler knelt on the floor. This area of the Chalet tends to be the quietest spot therefore it made for a better recording and it is a place we both tend to feel quite relaxed in. The interview itself was about contrasting the various Newfoundland foodways that Tyler has…