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  • 2026-10-08
    This late Georgian house, begun in 1818, was built by the Corps of Royal Engineers as the residence and offices…
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    While in remission from cancer, Terry Fox set out to run across Canada in 1980 to raise money for cancer…
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    This military chaplain worked tirelessly to commemorate Newfoundland’s role and sacrifice during the First World War. On behalf of his…
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    Irish settlers began to shape this landscape from about the 1730s, building houses and fishing rooms around the harbour to…
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    As the Seven Years War drew to a close in 1762 the Comte d'Haussonville led a final French attack on…
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    Between 1919 and 1937 many pioneer aviators, displaying courage and a spirit of high endeavour, undertook uncharted flights across the…
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    Here, from 1895 to 1966, men from Bell Island, Conception Bay and elsewhere in Newfoundland mined one of the world's…
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    This walled landscape represents a now rare, but once common, strategy of making subsistence gardens in Newfoundland outports. Across this…
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    A strong promoter of settlement in Newfoundland, John Guy was governor of Canada's first officially sanctioned English colony, founded here…
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    In 1866, the first transatlantic telegraph cable linking Europe with North America was successfully landed at Hearts Content, Newfoundland. This…