Happy Father’s Day to all the fathers, grandfathers, stepfathers and father figures. This month we’ve baked up some simple classics, inspired by an old cookbook sent to us by reader Susan Herdman. Published in 1948 by the United Church Girls’ Club of Corner Brook, the Family Favourites cookbook lived up to its title. Between the ads for…
In researching for his latest book, Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador, Dale Jarvis uncovered some interesting back stories on local community names. In 2011, it was estimated that there were 30,000 official place names listed for Newfoundland and Labrador, with as many as 50,000 other names in the oral tradition that had never been recorded….
By Marie Bishop Yay! It’s Come Home Year! Clearly we are still dealing with you know what… But we have managed to navigate our way through and around it. Yes, we are still cautious. Yes, there are still serious cases and even deaths due to it, but we have decided that life goes on. So…
As we head into our 35th year at Downhome, we’re taking a trip down memory lane. Every month for the next 12 months we’ll unearth a little snippet of Downhome history to give you a glimpse into what was on our radar way back when. Here’s one of the stories we ran in June 1988,…
