Some places in Canada carry stories that feel like part of our collective memory. This summer, I brought Bill and my girls to one of them: the Terry Fox Mile 0 Memorial on Water Street in St. John’s, Newfoundland — the place where Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope on April 12, 1980. […]
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You might think you’ve landed on Mars, but this extraordinary landscape is right here in Newfoundland & Labrador. The Tablelands in Gros Morne National Park are unlike almost anywhere else on Earth. Those barren, reddish-brown mountains are made of rock from the Earth’s mantle — material normally found deep beneath our feet, pushed to the
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Fog rolled off Signal Hill just as we arrived, and suddenly the whole of St. John’s Harbour was there. This is the first half of a Newfoundland homecoming — Signal Hill, Cape Spear, the quiet beginning of the Terry Fox story, and a proper Screech-In to close the night.
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What Gander Teaches Us About Caring for One Another There are places where history feels very far away. And then there’s Gander, Newfoundland. We recently visited Gander International Airport and the North Atlantic Aviation Museum, where one of Canada’s most remarkable stories of kindness and community comes vividly back to life. On September 11, 2001,
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Home, Twice Over If you noticed I was quieter than usual last week, you weren’t imagining it. I was home. Newfoundland home. https://youtube.com/shorts/X_dGnLPN8as?si=sqR33j0UUOWDO2x- We started on the west coast and drove to the east coast, to St. John’s, for a family wedding — the kind of celebration where you hug people you haven’t seen in
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