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St. Patrick's Hall Schools, the creation of the Benevolent Irish Society (BIS), was the first modern school in Newfoundland.

Story goes back to rural China in 1926, where a group of women forge a sisterhood amidst the reeling machines that reverberate and clamour in a vast silk factory from dawn til dusk.

From the northern shores of Labrador to the south coast of Newfoundland, there are as many ghost stories as there are bays and inlets.

Launched in 1945, the schooner Norma & Gladys illustrates the best qualities of Newfoundland and Labrador’s industries of shipbuilding, the Labrador fishery, the Grand Banks fishery, and coasti

In 1959, the small town of Badger was the centre of a labour confrontation that forever changed the social and political landscape of Newfoundland.

Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. But, when Ben's father, Ronnie dies, their whole world changes.

The year is 1932. The place is Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, where most of the early transatlantic flights take off. Unfortunately, more of them end in tragedy than in success.

“But I think I have told you a love story. Is there any other word for it? “Sense of place” doesn’t seem to quite cut it for Tack’s Beach and me.

The harrowing tale of the last woman hanged in Newfoundland.

Presents a selection of Ted Egan's hilarious, very true tales. This is classic, down-to-earth humour.

In 1925, in a London restaurant, J. Bruce Ismay, former chairman of the White Star Line, has a quiet dinner with his daughter Evelyn.

Every family has its secrets. In 1935, Hannah Parsons left her home in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland, at the age of seventeen to work in service for Charles and Virginia Sinclair, a wealthy St.

One of Canada's favourite storytellers is back with a collection of classic ghost stories for young readers.

Emmet Keogh, a young Irish gunman, is saved from the noose only to face death a dozen or so more times at the hand of the most dangerous man in Mexico.

Bestselling author Frank Galgay offers up this collection of his personal favorites from a wide variety of Canadian writers.