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| Categories | Regional magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Monthly |
| First issue | 1988 |
| Company | Downhome Inc. |
| Country | Canada |
| Based in | St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1717-6786 |
| OCLC | 1083332463 |
Downhome, formerly The Downhomer, is a magazine published by a company with the same name [1] monthly in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. [2]
The magazine was started in 1988 with the name Downhomer Newspaper. [3] It focuses on lifestyle in Newfoundland and Labrador, with columns like Notes From Home, Family & Friends, Discovery, Healthy Living, Food & Leisure and features submissions by its reader in the forms of stories, poems, photos or letters. It is the largest paid circulation magazine in Atlantic Canada [2] and is #31 among all paid circulation magazines in Canada. More than 50,000 copies of the magazine are published each month and are distributed worldwide. [4] The magazine started as a tabloid publication in the Greater Toronto Area. [5]
To complement the magazine, there are also two Downhome stores, one located in St. John's and the other in Twillingate. [6] The company also sells items worldwide via its website and runs fundraisers for organizations and schools selling subscriptions and goods. [7]
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St. John's is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the eastern tip of the Avalon Peninsula on the large Canadian island Newfoundland. The city spans 446.04 square kilometres (172.22 sq mi) and is the easternmost city in North America.
Bernice Morgan is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland.
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John Carnell Crosbie, was a provincial and federal politician who served as the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. He served as a provincial Cabinet minister under premiers Joey Smallwood and Frank Moores as well as a federal Cabinet minister during the governments of Joe Clark and Brian Mulroney. As a Cabinet minister under Mulroney, Crosbie was known to be outspoken and controversial.
Conception Bay South is a provincial electoral district for the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. As of 2011 there are 9,938 eligible voters living within the district.
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Ron Hynes was a folk singer-songwriter from Newfoundland and Labrador. He was especially known for his composition "Sonny's Dream", which has been recorded worldwide by many artists and was named the 41st greatest Canadian song of all time on the 2005 CBC Radio One series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.
The first brief European contact with Newfoundland and Labrador came c. AD 1000 when the Vikings briefly settled in L'Anse aux Meadows. In 1497, European explorers and fishermen from England, Portugal, Holland, France, and Spain began exploration. Fishing expeditions came seasonally; the first small permanent settlements appeared around 1630. Catholic-Protestant religious tensions were high but mellowed after 1860. The British colony voted against joining Canada in 1869 and became an independent dominion in the early 20th century. Fishing was always the dominant industry, but the economy collapsed in the Great Depression of the 1930s and the people voluntarily relinquished their independence to become a British colony again. Prosperity and self-confidence returned during the WW2, and after the intense debate, the people voted to join Canada in 1949.
Corey and Trina (Fulford) Crewe were musicians and comedians from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active for about 25 years beginning in the 1970s. They were known for performing comedy and music throughout all regions of Newfoundland and Labrador. One of their best known songs is "The Northern Lights of Labrador".
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The Newfoundland Margarine Company was Canada's first oleomargarine manufacturing company, and a leading producer in the Dominion of Newfoundland and after 1949, the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It was founded by Sir John Chalker Crosbie in 1925 and was one of three margarine plants established in Newfoundland during the early 20th century. With the expertise of George Ehlers, a Danish chemist, the Crosbie family grew the firm into the largest margarine manufacturing firm in Newfoundland. The Newfoundland Butter Company through acquisition and merger over the years with the other two manufacturing plants was eventually sold to Lever Brothers of England in 1937 and became a subsidiary of Lever Brothers of Canada.
The Mount Cashel Orphanage was an orphanage that was operated by the Congregation of Christian Brothers in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The facility is remembered for a scandal and protracted court cases regarding abuse of children. The facility opened in 1898; it was closed in 1990.
Touton refers to a popular traditional dish from Newfoundland and Labrador, most usually thought of as a pancake-like frybread commonly made with risen dough. The dish has long list of regionally-distinct names, and can refer to two different types of baked or fried dough: the dough cake variant, usually fried; and a baked bun variant, made with pork fat. Toutons are usually served at breakfast or brunch and can still be found quite commonly on the breakfast menus of many local restaurants.
Newfoundland is a large island off the east coast of the North American mainland, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It has 29 percent of the province's land area. The island is separated from the Labrador Peninsula by the Strait of Belle Isle and from Cape Breton Island by the Cabot Strait. It blocks the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River, creating the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary. Newfoundland's nearest neighbour is the French overseas community of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
Donald Frederick Harvey is a Canadian Anglican bishop. He was the Moderator Bishop and director of the Anglican Network in Canada, a founding diocese of the Anglican Church in North America, from 2009 to 2014, and the Director of Anglican Essentials Canada. He was previously the Bishop of Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador in the Anglican Church of Canada from 1993 to 2004.
Isabella Whiteford Rogerson, early Newfoundland poet and philanthropist, who also wrote under the nom de plumes Caed Mille Failtha and Isabella.
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