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The story of Bay Roberts is one of an ordinary people who lived through a turbulent and extraordinary past.

Philip Riteman is a Holocaust survivor whose mission is to educate today’s youth on the atrocities committed against millions of Jews and Gentiles by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime during World War II.

Before he walked onto the political stage, Norman Doyle grew up in Avondale, Conception Bay, in a family of nine children.

Clarissa, eleven, has been orphaned by a disease that has kept her far from home for as long as she can remember. Despite the many inmates in Dr.

“In the harsh, bitter, cold environment we work in, seal harvesting and fishing are two of the most dangerous jobs in the world. The North Atlantic has no friends.

The dramatic incredible story of the South Coast Disaster of 1929.

On the evening of February 6, 2000, thirteen-year-old Samantha Walsh left her grandmother's house for her home not far away. It was the last time she was ever seen alive.

Each day we begin life, not from where we are, but from where we have been. The mind is life's most seasoned traveller.

Sydney Frost, a young Nova Scotian, was working in St. John’s at The Bank of Nova Scotia when the First World War began in August 1914.

A thrilling tale of the notorious pirate Peter Easton.

The waters off the east coast of Canada have seen their share of accidents and disasters during the twentieth century.

On the night of November 29, 1929, eleven schooners set sail for home from the comfort and safety of St. John’s harbour. They all headed north: directly into the teeth of a deadly hurricane.

At the heart of Gros Morne National Park is Bonne Bay with its magnificent landscape, sheltered arms and coves, and abundant marine life.

“They didn’t die like flies, you know, like I’ve heard some reporters say over the years. Oh no, it wasn’t like that a’tall. The men who died didn’t just drop like flies.

“Hope dies hard with a sailor.” — W. B. Cullen, mate of the Roanoke, 1909 Globe and Mail bestselling author Robert C. Parsons presents more than fifty exciting stories of high-seas adventure!