Excerpt about Harbour Main-Chapel Cove-Lakeview from the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, Volume 2. Just before the holidays we ha...

Yesterday our team headed out to the Roman Catholic Cemetery in Blackhead for a little introduction to headstone cleaning. We were joined by...

Updated war memorial in St. Paul's Anglican Cemetery. November 2021. Photo courtesy of Trinity Historical Society. In this episode of th...

Often well-meaning people clean or “restore” old gravestones in ways that actually damage them or hasten their deterioration by using the wr...

Cemetery sleuths Dale Jarvis and Katie Crane introduce you to the BillionGraves app for your mobile phone.  BillionGraves is the world's...

Last week we visited the most adorable churchyard in Placentia to teach a cemetery conservation workshop with the O'Reilly House Museum ...

Group in the unmarked cemetery. On Thursday Dale and I met with three archaeologists from Memorial University, and three residents of Ba...

On a cold and wet Friday, June 15, 2018, I visited Lower Island Cove, Conception Bay North, with Judy Rogers as my guide. While there, J...

Volunteer Cemetery Enthusiasts Wanted! We've posted here and here about the ongoing cemetery conservation project underway at St....

Yesterday was Orangeman's Day in Newfoundland and Labrador, one of the curious provincial holidays that some people get off work, an...

Last week Dale and I went to Carbonear with Edwina Suley of the Baccalieu Trail Heritage Corporation. We were there to talk with volunteers...

One of our former board members, Doug Wells, was inspired by the podcast we did last week with archaeologist Robyn Lacy ( listen to that int...

Robyn Lacy is a 2nd year Masters student in the Archaeology Department at MUN, and completed her BA in Archaeology at the University of...

When driving through St. Lawrence a large concrete crucifix can be seen from the road, standing tall among the headstones in St. Cecilia Rom...

I posted a little while ago about a mystery headstone motif from Cupids, which generated some suggestions, and an article in The Tel...

I love old cemeteries, and always enjoy poking around the older sections, reading the epitaphs and admiring the artistry of the old grave ...

Just up the road from the Roman Catholic Church in Portugal Cove, on the side of a green hill, is the RC cemetery. It's a fairly large, ...