Explore the Lore
Those venturing out to the Memorial University Botanical Garden this September are advised to have bread in their pockets to keep the fairies away. The university’s garden staff has combined resources with folklorist Dale Jarvis of the St. John’s Haunted Hike to present The Fairy Path, an exploration of fairy […]
Newfoundland is swimming in mariner folklore, but no other story about a run-in with Architeuthis dux captivates audiences more than the Squires-Picot sighting on Oct. 26, 1873. Two fishermen and a boy were fishing in the tickle near Bell Island, just a few miles north of St. John’s, when they […]
When you dive into the annals of Canadian business history, most people would be right in thinking that the Hudson’s Bay Company monopolized most of it. But in St. John’s, Newfoundland, the Newman family is on par with Hudson’s with its mercantile prowess. A tie to that history still remains […]
Memorial University PhD student Karin Murray-Bergquist has taken her interest in history and folklore and mapped it out for her new home province. The 29-year-old Ottawa transplant has marked phantom ships, lights, dogs and shipwrecks through an online Map app called MapHub. Initially, she wanted to map legends of the […]