A history-packed edition of the Heritage Update for May/June 2017.

In this month's Heritage Update:

• The Oral History Roadshow is hitting the streets;
• Digitization of the 35mm slide collection from the Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s Archives;
• Commemorating the St. John’s Great Fire of 1892;
• The Goats of New Perlican;
• A call for Modern memories;
• Hooked rugs in Cupids;
• Recognizing the Legacy of World War Two on Our Province’s Built Landscape; and,
• Finding the profit in heritage.

Also, an invite to our Historic Places & Folklore of Bay Roberts event on June 8th, 7pm, at the Shearstown Community Centre, Bay Roberts.

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Photo: Ambrose and Maude Squires of St. Philip’s,
standing in front of a yellow house, July 4th, 1962.
Allen and Pearl Squires Fonds (028) courtesy of the
Portugal Cove-St. Philip’s Archives.