By Christopher Payne Everyone has heard of Fogo Island. Next, they need to hear about Little Fogo Islands. One of Newfoundland and Labrador’s largest offshore islands, Fogo Island is home to 11 distinct communities spread along its coastline. While each maintains its own identity today, many trace their roots to smaller settlements once scattered…
By Zachary Mosher It’s been ten years since Courtney and Terrence Howell discovered the restorative power of seaweed. The pair are now co-founders of 7 Fathoms, a Newfoundland skincare company producing bioactive-rich seaweed skincare products. Their local enterprise enables the couple to live “at the end of the road” in Grates Cove. The development…
By Mike Buhler Newfoundland’s highway map makes exploring easy by highlighting scenic loops around the island. One of my favourites is the Bacallieu Trail, and I’m lucky enough to live on Trinity Bay, which forms one side of it. This loop follows Trinity Bay on one side of the northwest Avalon and Conception Bay…
By Gord Follett I’ve been asked numerous times over the past three years why I gave up my YouTube channel. Well, three reasons, actually. First, I lost all my camera gear in mid-June of 2023 while picking up a friend in Corner Brook on the way to Codroy and Robinsons, to – what else…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year…..it’s the 34th annual Christmas at the Glacier, and it’s even bigger and better, with over 200 vendors in two main floor arenas, including 60 new ones! Bring your list to the largest event of its type in the Province, traditionally known as the kick off to the…
By Christopher Payne Cape St. Mary’s Ecological Reserve is about a two-hour drive from St. John’s, and the view waiting at the end feels almost unimaginable. It is one of the busiest places I have ever visited, though not because of people, but because of birds. With wingspans reaching up to almost two metres and…
By Kim Ploughman For centuries, outports in Newfoundland and Labrador lived in near isolation from the outside world. News travelled slowly, if at all. By the early 1950s, a gift arrived onshore with vital information for these outports. It came from an unlikely source, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) radio program called The Fisherman’s Broadcast….
By Pam Pardy There’s something about the town of Dildo that captures people’s curiosity. Maybe it’s the name, or the small-town charm that keeps folks coming back. But for Joanne and Josh Norman, the draw goes much deeper. Just off the main road overlooking Dildo sit two of the town’s most charming short-term stays: The…
As the cod returns and old conversations resurface, those on the water and those in government wrestle with a question that still lingers beneath it all: have we truly learned from what was lost? By Pam Pardy In New-Wes-Valley, where the fishery still hums with life, Edgar Hunt doesn’t speak in hypotheticals. He speaks from…
By Gary Collins I turned 65 on August 30, 2014. A day later, my buddy Alec Oram called to tell me he had a birthday gift for me. Alec never gives me gifts! “Bryan and I want to take you shark fishin’ with us.” “Shark fishin’. How do you mean, shark fishin’, with nets?”…
