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Gordon Rodgers (born 1952 in Gander, Newfoundland) is a Canadian writer.
Rodgers is the author of two books of poetry: Floating Houses (1984), and The Pyrate Latitudes (1986), as well as a novella entitled The Phoenix (1985). In 1999, he released his first novel, A Settlement of Memory, which is loosely based on the life of William Coaker. He obtained his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and an MSc from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
He was a clinical psychologist, (retired 2016) and was a part-time lecturer with the Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Rodgers lives in Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador, with his wife Paula, and is working on his second novel.
He has two sons, David, a lawyer in St. John’s, NL and Christopher, a computer engineer in St. John’s.
Newfoundland and Labrador is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. It is composed of the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador to the northwest, with a combined area of 405,212 square kilometres (156,500 sq mi). In 2018, the province's population was estimated at 525,073. About 92% of the province's population lives on the island of Newfoundland, of whom more than half live on the Avalon Peninsula.
John Christopher Pratt, is a Canadian painter and printmaker.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN, is a public university based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, with several satellite campuses. Memorial University offers certificate, diploma, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programmes, as well as online courses and degrees. Memorial's campuses include St. John's, Corner Brook, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and Harlow.
Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. In 2011 Johnston was awarded the Writers' Trust Engel/Findley Award in recognition of his overall contribution to Canadian Literature.
Cluny Macpherson was a physician and the inventor of an early gas mask. After World War I he served as the president of the St. John's Clinical Society and the Newfoundland Medical Association.
Donald Arthur Hillman, was a Canadian paediatrician and professor of pediatrics best known for working in Third World countries in international child health and development. He held positions at McMaster University, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Boston University, and the University of Ottawa.
Faculty of Medicine of Memorial University of Newfoundland is located on the eastern edge of North America and is one of two medical schools in Atlantic Canada. It was founded in 1967 and is the academic core of health research in the province.
David Lloyd ("Smoky") Elliott (1923–1999) was a Canadian poet.
Saint John Regional Hospital is a Canadian hospital in Saint John, New Brunswick.
John Derek Williams Tomlinson was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire in 1946.
Walter Carmichael Carter was a Canadian politician.
Michel Chrétien, is a Canadian medical researcher specializing in neuroendocrinology research at the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, or Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, (IRCM).
Percy Janes was a Canadian writer and novelist, known primarily for his novel House of Hate. His work often deals with life in Newfoundland, mainly from his own first hand experience.
Jessica Grant is a Canadian writer, whose debut novel Come, Thou Tortoise won the 2009 Winterset Award and the 2009 Books in Canada First Novel Award and was named as the winner of the 2009 Amazon.ca First Novel Award. The novel was also short-listed for the 2010 CANADIAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION Young Adult Book Award, was long-listed for CBC's Canada Reads 2011 competition.
Helen Fogwill Porter is a Canadian author and activist.
Augustus Taylor Rowe was a Canadian physician and politician. He served as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for Carbonear from 1971 to 1975. He also spent three years as the province's Health Minister within the cabinet of the former Premier Frank Moores from January 1972 to 1975.
Doctor Ian Edwin Lawman Hollands Rusted was a Canadian doctor in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Nigel Francis Scarth Rusted, was a Canadian doctor. He is credited with having made outstanding contributions to the medical profession in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Andrew John Furey is a Canadian orthopedic surgeon, politician, and the 14th Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, since August 19, 2020. Furey is the Member of the House of Assembly for Humber-Gros Morne.
Ed Kavanagh is a Canadian writer residing in Mount Pearl, Newfoundland. He is also a musician, theatre director, actor, and university lecturer. His first novel, The confessions of Nipper Mooney, won the 2002 Newfoundland Book Award.
