Posts Tagged ‘Newfoundland’
Author’s “previously unthinkable” ideas surface in the UK’s Independent
The U.K.-based Independent has served up a slick, professional rewrite of the BBC piece on my “previously unthinkable” ideas, drawing also on my column in the Globe and Mail. Gotta love it! But does anybody know how to monetize this kind of thing? Newfoundlanders, especially, will enjoy the newspaper’s situating of the city of St.…
Read MoreCanada’s Celtic Connection . . . .
That’s the headline on my column in the latest issue (August-September) of Canada’s History magazine. The piece touches on JFK, the “coffin ships” that brought so many immigrants to Canada, and the new statue in Londonderry that matches one in Halifax harbour. It begins as follows: Some years ago, while driving with friends in Canada,…
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