SS Saganaga "Running to my sister's bedroom window which overlooked the eastern portion of the tickle, I arrived there before...

The two German U-boat attacks in 1942 sank four ore ships off Bell Island and left 70 sailors dead. Do you have memories or family stori...

One of the Bell Island Mine entrances taken in 1954. This photograph is part of the Allen and Pearl Squires Fonds from the Portugal Cove-...

Allen Squires in uniform (028.02.02).  Detail of one of the many letters he wrote to Pearl Morcombe. In April I had the pleasure to...

Gail (Hussey) Weir is the author of The Miners of Wabana, published by Breakwater Books in 1989 and 2006. Her latest publication is a ch...

In celebration of Halloween, today I've pulled together some audio clips recorded in the Newman Wine Vaults from the Young Folklorist Pr...

Teresita E. McCarthy is a retired educator. She taught for thirty-three years in the classrooms in her native community of Bell Island, N...

"The Miner", depicting miner Billy Parsons, is one of a series of murals commemorating Bell Island's heritage. The iron o...

Despite its fairly small size, Bell Island has at least 12 different cemeteries. Some of these are considered new, while others are histo...