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Showing posts with label Newfoundland Railway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newfoundland Railway. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Occasional Paper No. 008 - A Social and Architectural Analysis of the Harbour Grace Railway Station

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Harbour Grace Railway Station and Freight House c. 1980. Photo by Joe McMillan.  For the past couple of months, I've been res...
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Friday, July 21, 2017

Memories of Historic Places: A Trainful of Mary Brown's Secret Recipe Dough

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Over the past couple of weeks I have been researching the Gordon G. Pike Railway Museum and Park. Erected in 1881, this building was onc...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Launch of "Railway Memories - Stories of the Newfoundland Railway"

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In the summer of 2016, I started chatting with Stephen Bonnell and the folks at the Clarenville Heritage Society. The Society, based out...
Monday, January 9, 2017

#CollectiveMemories Monday - Colin Pike: railway man, woodsman, and lineman

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Photograph of Colin Pike (right) and his son, Wayne Pike In August 2016, we had a visit in the Heritage Foundation office with Colin Pi...
Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Harbour Grace Railway Memories

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Canadian National Train in Harbour Grace. Photo from the Town's website. On Sunday evening the Heritage Foundation along with the To...
Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Railway Memories Photo and Story Swap - Harbour Grace

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Harbour Grace Railway Station. Photo by Michael Philpott. Did you work in the building or on the railway line? Do you know someone or ha...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

The Goose Cove Train Derailment - an update and new photo!

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Last week, I posted a story from Baxter Tuck about a derailment along the Bonavista Branch Line. You can listen to that story here . H...
Monday, July 25, 2016

Trapped by the heels - a train derailment on the Bonavista Branch Line. #oralhistory

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As part of our ongoing Collective Memories project to record the stories of Newfoundland and  Labrador seniors, we've been doing so...
Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Tuesday's Folklore Photo: Riding the Rails

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This is a picture of my great grandmother, Ethel Peddle (nee Ivany), taken circa 1927-1933. Her father was a roadmaster with the Newfound...