23 Community Groups Receive Provincial Wellness Grants
The Provincial Government is continuing to invest in the health and well-being of Newfoundlanders and Labradorians through the Provincial Wellness Grant program. This year, 23 organizations and groups received a total of $322,000 in funding.
Today, the Honourable Ross Wiseman, Minister of Health and Community Services, presented one of those organizations, the St. John’s Women’s Centre, with a $25,000 wellness grant for Nurturing Health and Wellness, a joint project involving the Namaste Program for Women. Continue Reading >>
Rural Secretariat Region: Gander-New-Wes-Valley
The Twillingate-New World Island Development Association received $4,000 towards the New World Island Regional Recreation Initiative. The objective of this initiative is to improve the physical health of residents of New World Island. Funding will be used to build capacity for partnership development and to conduct a needs assessment, which will help guide this initiative. Central Health will work with the association to provide advice and resources to assist with the development and implementation of a recreation program. Continue Reading >>
Boyd’s Cove – Stronghold of the Beothuk
The sheltered inlet of Boyd’s Cove (and the twin settlement of Boyd’s Harbour), due east of Chapel Island in central Notre Dame Bay, forms the junction between Route 340 and the Reach Run causeway. The town’s name supposedly honours a New World Island logger by the name of Boyd who harvested timber in the area. Although its history as a European-settled community is relatively recent, the area was inhabited for centuries by a number of Aboriginal groups, the last being the Beothuk. Today, an award-winning interpretation centre celebrating this people’s culture is located in Boyd’s Cove (see below). Continue Reading >>
Lewisporte – “Gateway to the North”
Lewisporte, with a population of 3,312 in 2001, is located in Notre Dame Bay on Newfoundland’s Northeast Coast. It was incorporated in 1946 with Albert Anstey as its first Mayor. In the days when most Newfoundland communities were linked only by sea Lewisporte was home to the “bay boat” S.S. Clyde. Found near the head of Burnt Bay in the Bay of Exploits (part of Notre Dame Bay), Lewisporte fills the role of distribution centre for the Northeast Coast, central Newfoundland, and Labrador north to Nain. Its modern role as a shipping entrepôt has earned Lewisporte the moniker “The Gateway to the North.” Its harbour is home to a boating marina complex where visitors can avail of boat tours and sailing charters. Continue Reading >>
William Coaker and the Fishermen’s Protective Union – Part II, Politics and Decline
On the eve of World War I (1914-18) the Fisherman’s Protective Union (FPU), founded by William Ford Coaker, was prospering. It had recruited members from all over the colony of Newfoundland, especially in the heavily-Protestant settlements along the Northeast Coast. The union had also spun off into other ventures aimed at helping fishers break free of merchant control. Apart from establishing the Union Trading Company (UTC), which operated its own stores, the FPU took an even more radical step in 1919 when it founded its own community, Port Union. Continue Reading >>
