Knowledge as Verb
byWorking toward an encyclopedia of Newfoundland knowledge, Pam Hall recognizes the collaborative nature of understanding
Features
Prisoners of War
byAndy Flanagan shares the story of how Second World War prison guards regularly inspected Andrew “Ando” Flanagan’s diary and blacked out sections, ripped them out or beat him for what he wrote
What’s in the Water in Inverness That Creates Such Phenomenal Writers?
byLynn Coady, Alistair MacLeod, Sarah Faber, Kate Beaton, Linden MacIntyre, Frank Macdonald, Tom Ryan, Rebecca Silver Slayter, Johanna Skibsrud, Oisin Curran and Susan Paddon. Just to name a few.
The Significance of Disaster 100 Years On
by100 years after the event, in our rush to glorify Canada’s participation in the First World War, we too easily forget that had it not been for the war the Halifax Disaster would not have occurred
Fiction Brings Halifax Explosion to Heart
byNew novels allow us to investigate the unknowable questions behind unacceptable realities of human stupidity and tragedies that befall innocents
Finding Compassion in Disaster
byHow picture books help children understand horrific events like the Halifax Explosion