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Hello, On Thursday, November 30, more than 80 people gathered at Memorial University’s Marine Institute in St. John’s to attend the Newfoundland and Labrador Historical Society‘s Gilbert Higgins Lecture, an annual event co-sponsored by the Museum Association of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Association of Newfoundland and Labrador Archives. The audience consisted of members of […]
Hello! For the last week, Rozanne Enerson Junker and I have been working with designers from the 99designs platform to come up with the cover for Rozanne’s new book Renatus’ Kayak: A Labrador Inuk, an American G.I. and a Secret World War II Weather Station. The book, to be officially launched on November 30, 2017, […]
Angus Andersen loves listening to indigenous music. Quite often you’ll find him searching on YouTube for new songs and performers. But, in March 2016, something changed! As a member of the Inuit Drum group Kilautiup Songuninga (strength of the drums), Angus flew from St. John’s to Ottawa to take part in the Inuit community’s Spring […]
Good day, I am so excited and proud to tell you about the “Germany and Canada: Partners from Immigration to Innovation” exhibit that just opened last night in Ottawa. The exhibit is being presented by the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, and its many partners, to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary. It is located […]
(version française de ce texte) Hello, For the last few years, every Wednesday, I’ve been admiring ice photos (#icephotos) being posted on Twitter. Well! With this summer’s two trips above the 50th parallel, I now feel that I have sufficient photos of icy subjects to start posting one every Wednesday. To kick things off, here […]
(version française de ce texte) Hello all! Happy Inuit Day! Today, November 7th, being Inuit Day, could we have found a better occasion to officially announce the publication of the book In the Footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab which reveals the results of a four-year investigation into the fate of the remains of a group of […]
(Version française de ce texte) At last! It’s here!! Voyage with the Labrador Eskimos, 1880-1881 (and its French counterpart, Voyage avec les Eskimos du Labrador, 1880-1881) represents Polar Horizons’ very first publication and first official deliverable stemming out of the research project In the footsteps of Abraham Ulrikab. As many of you know, the […]
(English version of this post) Enfin! La toute première publication d’Horizons Polaires est arrivée! Voyage avec les Eskimos du Labrador, 1880-1881 (et son équivalent de langue anglaise, Voyage with the Labrador Eskimos, 1880-1881) représente également le premier livrable émanant officiellement du projet de recherche Sur les traces d’Abraham Ulrikab. Comme plusieurs d’entre vous savez déjà, […]
(Version française de ce texte) Hello everyone, After more than two years rusting in the St. John’s harbor, the cruise ship Lyubov Orlova is now on its way to its final resting place: the Dominican Republic where it will be dismantled. But, from what I’m reading, chances that it will indeed make it to the […]
(Version française de ce texte) Happy New Year everyone! For my first post of 2013, I thought I’d share one of the great excitement I had during the holidays: seeing one of my photos in a Reader’s Digest publication. The book A Country for All Seasons was released in November 2012. It is a […]
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