Archives & Special Collections, Memorial University

What is a historic crime club? We come together each quarter to investigate, research and discuss old crimes from Newfoundland and Labrador and beyond 🔎Join us as we explore “1834: Catherine Snow, the last woman hanged in Newfoundland”

🔎Wednesday, February 25th @ 6:30pm🔎
Adults only. Register here: https://nlpl.ca/events/historic-crime-club-4/

It is December! Have you read all of our new bios from November?

📖 Margaret Gascoigne (1876–1934), educator, school administrator, and musician: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gascoigne_margaret_16E.html
📖 John Skirving Ewart (1849–1933), lawyer and author: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ewart_john_skirving_16E.html
📖 Norman McLeod Rogers (1894–1940), soldier, university professor, author, civil servant, and politician: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/rogers_norman_mcleod_16E.html
📖 William James Roche (1859–1937), physician, politician, and office holder: https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/roche_william_james_16E.html

Powell's Supermarkets Powell’s Supermarket is a full-service supermarket dedicated to offering the freshest produce, highest quality meats and poultry, and quality products for you and your family. We also have a full-service deli with hot meals to go, an in-store bakery that produces fresh bread, birthday cakes, and p...

It has been a good week at the MHA. In addition to History 3840 (Historical Methods, Dr. Jeff Webb) students who are poring over old passenger liner crew agreements for their term paper project, we have also been fortunate to host a research team from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Porto. Alice Nouvet, Neftalí Sillero, and Rafael Sousa Santos are part of the ERC-funded project, Fishing Architecture, examining how the industrialization of North Atlantic fisheries affected marine ecosystems, and the role that architecture played in that process. We have enjoyed working with them to find archival documents that support their research.

🚨Drifting Smoke Alert 🚨

The St. John’s Regional Fire Department is advising residents that the Kingston wildfires are causing drifting smoke into St. John’s and surrounding areas. As a result, a special air advisory has been issued for the St. John’s metro region this morning.

Residents are advised to keep windows and doors closed and to turn off air exchangers and HVAC units that draw air from outside to help reduce indoor smoke exposure. Please contact 811 or see a health-care provider if you experience any concerning symptoms related to smoke exposure such as a severe cough, shortness of breath, heart palpitations and/or wheezing.

You can check out the air quality statement at https://loom.ly/kPx_umY

SJRFD

Honoured to visit beautiful Grand Falls Windsor to help unveil a statue honouring my old pal Gordon Pinsent on what would have been his 95th birthday. Bravo on another masterwork. Love you Gordon.