Trivia EH? The Heritage Tree of Newfoundland & Labrador
Wood: cedar Height: 52 ft Width: 4.5 ft Weight: 9 tonnes Carvings: 56 Location: Steady Brook, NL
Category: Newfoundland & Labrador
The Heritage Tree
(featured July 2004) Have you heard about the huge totem pole we have here on the island of Newfoundland? We call it the Heritage Tree of Newfoundland and Labrador and if you ever come to visit Newfoundland’s west coast you can see it right from the Trans Canada Highway. But let me tell you why [...]
Little Boats of Newfoundland
Yes, the little boats are going out to sea tonight, and tomorrow and tomorrow night and for many days and nights to come this summer. It is the first night of the ‘Recreational/Food Fishery’ and the little Newfoundland boats are bobbing proudly around on their moorings just waiting to be unleashed and allowed to do [...]
Shoal Harbour
The two large windows in the front of the little post office gave me a great view of the copper colored kelp spreading out from the little causeway into the deeper water. The postmaster remarked on how low the tide was today, and we all agreed it must be the extreme tide of the full [...]
Newfoundland & Labrador
I thought it appropriate to outline this province first, in light of it’s part in last week’s terrorist attacks. A peek into the world of the brave citizens of Newfoundland. After the horror of the plane crashes into 3 U.S. sites on September 11, 2001, Newfoundland handled a great deal of air traffic – 12,000 [...]
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