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| Type | Weekly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
| Editor | Dave Sorensen |
| Founded | 1949 |
| Political alignment | None |
| Headquarters | St. John's, Newfoundland |
| Website | www.mun.ca/gazette |
The Gazette is the official newspaper of Memorial University of Newfoundland, located in St. John's, Newfoundland. [1] [2]
Sir Robert Bond was the last Premier of Newfoundland Colony from 1900 to 1907 and the first prime minister of the Dominion of Newfoundland from 1907 to 1909 after the 1907 Imperial Conference conferred dominion status on the colony. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, as the son of merchant John Bond. Bond grew up in St. John's until 1872 when his father died and left the family a good deal of money. He went to England where he was educated and came back to Newfoundland and articled under Sir William Whiteway.
Memorial University, or MUN, is a public research university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Saint Pierre, and Harlow, England. Memorial University offers certificate, diploma, undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate programs, as well as online courses and degrees.
Carbonear is a town on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It overlooks the west side of Conception Bay and had a history long tied to fishing and shipbuilding. Since the late 20th century, its economy has changed to emphasize education, health care, retail, and industry. As of 2021, there were 4,696 people in the community.
The Western Star is a weekly newspaper published Wednesdays in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, and also serving Stephenville and the Bay of Islands, Bay St. George and Humber Valley areas.
Kim Mun is a Mienic language spoken by 200,000 of the Yao people in the Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Hunan and Yunnan, with about 61,000 of the speakers in Hainan Province. There are also speakers in Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand.
Sir Henry Edward McCallum, GCMG was a British colonial governor.
Lester Leland Burry, OC (1898–1977) born Safe Harbour, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland was a chaplain, missionary and politician.
Otto Tucker, was a Newfoundland and Labrador heritage activist, storyteller, and educator. He was a recipient of the Order of Canada for his work in promoting and preserving Newfoundland and Labrador heritage and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador for his efforts that have made significant contributions to both the educational and cultural sectors of the province.
Glover Island is a large (178 km2) lake island in the interior of the Island of Newfoundland in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The island was named after Sir John Hawley Glover, former governor of Newfoundland. It is the 18th largest lake island in the world by area, and the largest natural island in a lake on an island. The island is located in Grand Lake, a natural lake whose waters were raised for the Deer Lake Power Development. Historic maps show that Glover Island pre-dates this.
This is a list of media in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Margaret Iris Duley was arguably Newfoundland's first novelist and certainly the first to gain an international audience. She was born in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. Her four novels combine a deep sense of geography and place, and especially of the sea. Her main characters are often outport women who are set apart or restive in their surroundings, and her writing reflected a feminist sensibility.
The Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland is a 4-star hotel in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, operating under the Marriott International banner.
Keith Matthews was an English jazz pianist and prominent historian of Newfoundland, best known for his Oxford University DPhil thesis "The West of England Newfoundland Fishery" and for a highly influential essay "Fence Building: A Critique of the Historeography of Newfoundland."
Daai, which borders the Mün and Ütbü language groups, is a Kuki-Chin of Myanmar. It is spoken in 142 villages in Kanpetlet, Matupi, Mindat, and Paletwa townships in Chin State, Burma (Ethnologue).
Dale Kirby is a politician who served in the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly from 2011 to 2019.
Ignatius Aloysius Rumboldt C.M. was a choir director, organist and educator in Newfoundland.
Barbara Neis is a Canadian social scientist. She is a John Lewis Paton Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Senior Research Associated in the SafetyNet Centre.
Ursula Anne Margaret Kelly is a Canadian University Research Professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Helen Peters is a Canadian scholar of English literature and a specialist in the theatre of Newfoundland. She is a winner of the British Academy's Rose Mary Crawshay Prize for 1981.
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