Archive for the ‘Newfoundland History’ Category
Hi Yesterday I told you about my great-grandfather Elias Coffin and his son Hubert who died aboard the SS Caribou. Today I am going to tell you about my grandfather Elias Coffin son of Elias Coffin. My grandfather Elias Giles Coffin was born 1920 and died 1965. He was forty five, my mother was 16. [...]
Hi In the early hours of October 14, 1942 a torpedo from the German submarine U69 hit the passenger ship SS Caribou, on route to Port aux Basques, Newfoundland from Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of the 237 people aboard the Caribou 136 had perished. Fifty-seven were military personnel and 49 were civilians. The Channel-Port aux Basques area was the worst hit as many [...]
Hi When I see or find anything related to the tourism of our province I always stop and have a look or read. I do this because for the years that I worked as an Art Director I worked on the branding for Newfoundland Tourism. So when I came across these vintage tourism ads for our [...]
Hi The Rug Hooking Guild of Newfoundland and Labrador were inviting people to take part in an exhibition of rug hooking celebrating the lighthouses of the province. I did not enter but I thought it was a great project and I loved the subject. The lighthouse I choose is/was in Channel-Port-aux-Basques, Newfoundland. I selected this site [...]
Hi This week the air waves have been filled with stories and reports marking the one hundred year anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and because it sank just 400 miles off our shore of Newfoundland I thought I would write a post about it. Loving anything Newfoundland I did a bit of research and [...]
