Bernice Morgan is a Canadian novelist and short-story writer. Much of her work portrays the history and daily life of Newfoundland. She is best known for her novel "Random Passage" which became a television mini-series on CBC.
Newfoundland and Labrador is an Atlantic Canadian province with a folk musical heritage based on the Irish, English and Cornish traditions.
Figgy Duff was a Canadian folk-rock band from Newfoundland, Canada. They played a major role in the Newfoundland cultural renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s. Formed in 1976 by Noel Dinn, who named the band after a traditional pudding, Figgy Duff travelled across Newfoundland, learning traditional songs and performing them with distinct elements of rock and roll.
Celtic music is primarily associated with the folk traditions of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany and Wales, as well as the popular styles derived from folk culture. In addition, a number of other areas of the world are known for the use of Celtic musical styles and techniques, including Newfoundland, and much of the folk music of Canada's Maritimes, especially on Cape Breton Island and Prince Edward Island.
Roaches Line is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on the western side of Conception Bay and south of Bay Roberts.
Figgy duff is a traditional bag pudding from the province of Newfoundland and Labrador most commonly served as a part of a Jiggs dinner. It is sometimes called a raisin duff. The word 'Figgy' is an old Cornish term for raisin; perhaps indicating the origin of the settlers who brought this dish to the area. It is very similar to the Scottish clootie dumpling.
Jiggs dinner, also called boiled dinner or cooked dinner, is a traditional meal commonly prepared and eaten on Sundays in Newfoundland. Corned beef and cabbage was the favorite meal of Jiggs, the central character in the popular, long-running comic strip Bringing Up Father by George McManus and Zeke Zekley.
Suzanne M. Duff is a Canadian politician who has served as the 12th mayor of St. John's from 1990 to 1993 and as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
Nicholas J. Wall was a Newfoundland Colony born jockey who competed successfully in Canada and was the 1938 National Champion rider in the United States.
Anita Best C.M. is a teacher, broadcaster, and well-known singer from the Atlantic province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Franco-Newfoundlanders, also known as Franco-Terreneuvians in English or Franco-Terreneuviens in French, are francophone and/or French Canadian residents of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The name Franco-Terreneuvian derives from Terre-Neuve, the French name of Newfoundland.
Idlers is a Canadian reggae band from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, consisting of eleven members.
Émile Joseph Benoît was a Canadian fiddler who became known for popularizing Franco-Newfoundlander folk music traditions.
The Hangashore Folk Festival was a folk festival based in Corner Brook, Newfoundland in 1980–1994. The festival was run by the Bay Of Islands Folk Arts Council.
Poutchine au sac is a Métis bag pudding dish made of beef suet, flour, brown sugar, raisins, currants, and milk. The ingredients are combined in a cotton bag or sealer jars, then steamed. The cooked dish is usually topped with a sauce made from sugar, cornstarch, vanilla, and nutmeg.
Cornelius Francis "Frank" Maher is a Newfoundland musician known for his work on the buttonbox. Maher has performed solo, as well as with "almost every traditional band on the island at some point in his career", and as the leader of the band Maher's Bahers.
Dinn is an English and Irish surname, of Gaelic or Norman origin. The name has three possible origins, a nickname for Dennis (Dinis), another origin is an Irish Byname meaning Brown or Dark coloured, another origin is Anglo-Norman meaning an inhabitance of the Norman town Dives-sur-Mer. The surname is well known in the United States and Canada. The surname is very common in Massachusetts and Indiana in the United States, and in Canada the surname is very common in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Young Saints were a Canadian hard rock band of the early 1990s. Although they recorded only one album before breaking up, they are most noted for garnering a Juno Award nomination for Most Promising Group at the Juno Awards of 1992 and for being only the second band from Newfoundland — and the first in a mainstream popular music genre, as their only predecessor was the traditional Newfoundland folk music band Figgy Duff — ever to sign a deal with a major record label.
Kelly Russell is a Canadian fiddle player and founding member of Newfoundland musical groups Figgy Duff and the Wonderful Grand Band. He is known for having worked closely with fellow Newfoundland fiddle players Émile Benoît and Rufus Guinchard and has collected over 500 traditional tunes unique to Newfoundland and Labrador. He is a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal and was named as a Member of the Order of Canada. Russell is the son of famed Newfoundland writer and politician, Ted Russell, and Dora Oake Russell. His sister, Elizabeth Miller is an academic.
Tobias F. "Toby" McDonald, is a Canadian curler, curling coach and lawyer from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
