CBC feature on Heritage NL's "Craft at Risk"

Heritage NL is excited to highlight a CBC feature with Krissy Holmes on the Craft at Risk exhibition currently on display at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador. 

Heritage NL curated the exhibition which is running from October 4 to November 8, 2024. This exhibition showcases the work of several Mentor-Apprentice participants. Please check out the exhibition in person at the Craft Council Gallery which is open Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm. For more info about the Craft Council including their location visit their website: https://www.craftcouncilnl.ca/contact

More information about Craft at Risk including our updated Craft at Risk List 2024 please visit is our website here: 

https://heritagenl.ca/programs/craft-at-risk/

Media Release: Updated List of Endangered Crafts Released for Newfoundland and Labrador

Sealskin boot making, traditional dyeing, and the building of Labrador kayaks have all been placed on an updated list of endangered crafts for Newfoundland and Labrador.

St. John’s, NL
For immediate release

The Heritage NL Craft at Risk List 2024 is designed to track changes in levels of local knowledge, and to plan for the future. Concerned about the loss of traditional know-how, Heritage NL has been working to document crafts at risk and to encourage the sharing of heritage skills.

The Heritage NL Craft at Risk List 2024 features 76 crafts, 16 of which are listed as critically endangered. These include things such as coopering, spruce root basketry, and making black bottomed sealskin boots. An additional 42 crafts are listed as endangered, while 15 crafts are listed as currently viable. Three crafts, including the recently listed hay barrack making, are listed as having become extinct in the last generation.

Heritage NL has partnered with the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador to showcase some of these crafts at risk in a new exhibition at the Craft Council Gallery on Water Street, St. John’s. This exhibition features the work of 18 participants of the Heritage NL Mentor-Apprentice Program. This program, coordinated and funded by Heritage NL, was a one-on-one immersion program to support the teaching of endangered crafts and skills from an established mentor to an apprentice craftsperson or tradesperson.

“The culture and heritage of Newfoundland and Labrador is so entwined with craft,” says Dr. Lisa Daly, chair of Heritage NL’s Board of Directors. “Through the fishery, built heritage, making clothing, and our foodways, we find the art and craft that has taken things from functional to beautiful. I hope that we can continue such partnerships to preserve and share the intangible cultural heritage that makes this place so uniquely home for us, whether our ancestors have spent generations here, or we are new to the province.”

“Heritage NL hopes to continue to work so that future generations can continue to learn the crafts that shape our identity,” Daly adds.

The Craft at Risk exhibition runs until November 8th, 2024 at the Craft Council Gallery (155 Water Street) which is open to the public from Wednesday to Saturday 12-5pm.

Find the Heritage NL Craft at Risk List 2024 at www.heritagecraft.ca

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For more information or to arrange an interview contact:

Dale Jarvis, Executive Director
Heritage NL
dale @ heritagenl . ca
709-739-1892 x1
www.heritagecraft.ca

Save Our Historic Cemeteries! Come learn about how your community can take action.

Come learn about how your community can take action to conserve historic cemeteries in this free symposium with speakers from Heritage NL, MUN Folklore, and Trinity Historical Society.

Cemeteries as Community Heritage
Thursday, November 21st
9:30am - 12:00pm

Heart's Content Regional Centre for the Arts (former Heyfield Memorial Church)
Heart’s Content Registered Heritage District, NL
Directions: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1mkEja8nYGo75uvF7


Schedule of Events:

9:30am - Doors open, tea and coffee

10am - Session start

Introduction: Dale Jarvis, Heritage NL
Before You Start Cleanup - Planning and Municipal Cemetery Designation: Andrea O'Brien, Heritage NL
Update on Heart's Content Cemetery Documentation: Juliet Lanphear, Heritage NL
What is Cemetery Tourism?: Katie Crane, MUN Folklore
Adopt a Headstone Project, St. Paul’s Anglican Cemetery: Jim Miller, Trinity Historical Society

11:30am Questions, general discussion, and wrap-up


This is a free event, and open to the general public, but pre-registration is required here.

After the event, from 12:00pm-1:00pm, there will be a post-session meeting with Heritage NL, Mizzen Heritage, citizens, and Town of Heart's Content to discuss next steps for the community:

• What has already been done?
• Are there burial records for the cemeteries? Where are they?
• What comes next? Who will do it?

Meet MANL conference panel moderator Dale Jarvis- Digital Museums Canada Session

As part of the upcoming MANL conference, Heritage NL will be facilitating a Digital Museums Canada session on Saturday Oct 26th. Come learn about how your heritage organization or museum can avail of DMC funding to help share your local knowledge and stories. 

Registration deadline is October 16th, end of day.
https://museumsnl.ca/2024-conference-agm/ 

Meet moderator Dale Jarvis

Folklorist and author Dale Jarvis is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Folklore, Memorial University, and the Executive Director of Heritage NL, helping communities to safeguard living heritage and historic places. Dale has been working for Heritage NL since 1996, and holds a BSc in Anthropology/Archaeology from Trent University, and a MA in Folklore from Memorial University. He has served on the UNESCO Consultative Body to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and regularly teaches workshops on oral history, cultural documentation, and public folklore.

Meet MANL conference panelist Neil Burgess- Digital Museums Canada session

2024 MANL Conference

Date: October 25-26, 2024.
Location: The Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave, St. John's, NL

Join us for an in-person opportunity to explore what binds us as heritage organizations! MANL, ANLA and Heritage NL are working together to help you build ideas and tell your communities’ stories. As part of the conference, Heritage NL will be facilitating a Digital Museums Canada program on Saturday Oct 26th. Come learn about how your heritage organization or museum can avail of DMC funding to help share your local knowledge and stories. 

Registration deadline is October 16th, end of day.
https://museumsnl.ca/2024-conference-agm/

Meet panelist Neil Burgess

Neil Burgess has a Masters in Science and worked as a wildlife biologist for 30 years. Now that he is retired, he pursues his passion for learning more about shipwrecks in this province. With friends, he established the Shipwreck Preservation Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. The aim of the Shipwreck Society is to document, protect and promote awareness of shipwrecks and nautical history across the province. The Society has partnered with local museums to create two Community Stories exhibits with funding from Digital Museums Canada. They partnered with the Bell Island Heritage Society to create a virtual museum exhibit online on the U-boat attacks at Bell Island in 1942 and the sinking of four ore ships, and partnered with the South West Coast Historical Society Inc. on an exhibit about the sinking of SS Caribou.

The Tragic Sinking of S.S. "Caribou" 

https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/tragic-sinking-ss-caribou_naufrage-tragique/

When World War II Came to Bell Island, Newfoundland

https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/wwii-came-to-bell-island_seconde-guerre-mondiale/

Meet MANL conference panelist Terra Barrett - Digital Museums Canada session

As part of the upcoming MANL conference, Heritage NL will be facilitating a Digital Museums Canada session on Saturday Oct 26th. Come learn about how your heritage organization or museum can avail of DMC funding to help share your local knowledge and stories. 

Registration deadline is October 16th, end of day.
https://museumsnl.ca/2024-conference-agm/ 

Meet panelist Terra Barrett

Terra Barrett (she/her) is the Intangible Cultural Heritage Program Planner with Heritage NL. She holds a BA in Folklore and an MA in Public Folklore from Memorial University as well as a Social Media Certificate from Algonquin College. She is currently documenting untold histories, traditional skills, and the associated narratives of Newfoundland and Labrador’s historic places. Previously for Heritage NL, Terra conducted fieldwork in several communities, and worked with the Oral History Roadshow and Craft at Risk projects. She volunteers with a number of organizations, and is particularly interested in the crafts, foodways and folk beliefs of the province. Terra has past experience working with MUNFLA, Them Days Inc., and The Rooms.

Terra has been the Heritage NL lead on the following DMC projects:
-The Early Lebanese Community in Newfoundland (2024)
-Heritage Underground - A History of Root Cellars in Newfoundland and Labrador (2022)
-Carved by the Sea: Heritage Places of Bay Roberts, Newfoundland (2020)
-Remembering the Merchants of Main Street, Windsor (2019)

Meet MANL conference panelist Leah Resnick - Digital Museums Canada session

2024 MANL Conference

Date: October 25-26, 2024.
Location: The Rooms, 9 Bonaventure Ave, St. John's, NL

Join us for an in-person opportunity to explore what binds us as heritage organizations! MANL, ANLA and Heritage NL are working together to help you build ideas and tell your communities’ stories. As part of the conference, Heritage NL will be facilitating a Digital Museums Canada program on Saturday Oct 26th. Come learn about how your heritage organization or museum can avail of DMC funding to help share your local knowledge and stories. 

Registration deadline is October 16th, end of day.
https://museumsnl.ca/2024-conference-agm/

Meet panelist Leah Resnick

Leah Resnick (she/her) is a seasoned museum leader with a proven track record directing and forging strategic partnerships nationally, internationally and in cultural diplomacy. She is currently Director of Digital Museums Canada. Over the course of her career she has led close to 100 high profile cultural projects (digital initiatives, exhibitions, grants, art commissions, festivals, art prizes and community engagement). Highlights include leading the Sobey Art Award, Venice Biennale, and a number of world class travelling exhibitions. At the National Gallery of Canada, she was instrumental in reinventing the National Outreach Program. She champions the power of digital, diversity and inclusion, accessibility and sustainability in museums.

Links to Heart’s Content , NL, Cemetery Resources

 

Heart's Content Carbonear Road Anglican Cemetery, 2021.

Links to Heart’s Content Cemetery Resources

Heart’s Content Anglican Cemetery Notes.pdf - rough draft c2000

Heart'sContentAnglicanRectoryCemetery.pdf

Heart'sContentCableOfficeCemetery.pdf

Heart'sContentCarbonearRoadAnglicanCemeteryBook182.pdf

Heart'sContentHayfieldMemorialUnitedCemeteryBook181.pdf

Heart'sContentHeyfieldMemorialUnited2.pdf

Heart'sContentMainBrookCemetery.pdf

Heart'sContentParishHallHillCemeteryBook183.pdf

Heart'sContentRomanCatholicCemetery.pdf

Heart'sContentSalvationArmyCemetery.pdf

BillionGraves pages

Heart's Content Anglican Cemetery

Heyfield United Churchyard

Main Brook Cemetery

Last updated 2024-09-04 by Dale Jarvis

Stories of Early Occupational Therapy in Newfoundland and Labrador

 

A new online exhibit shares the personal stories and memories attached to the development of the profession of Occupational Therapy in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The digital Occupational Therapy History Archive Project is an initiative of the Newfoundland and Labrador Occupational Therapy Association (www.nlaot.ca), in partnership with Heritage NL and Memorial University’s Digital Archives Initiative. 

The exhibit includes stories of pioneer occupational therapists who worked in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1900-1960, as well as audio interviews from a sample of occupational therapists who worked in Newfoundland and Labrador from 1960-2022.  The stories of the pioneer occupational therapists are based on information from historical documents, family members, and occupational therapists who were interviewed for this project. 

“We were really intrigued by the therapists’ stories and the parallels between practice then and now,” says Brenda Head, one of the project coordinators.

The interviews reflect the therapists’ memories and chronicles the development of the profession, highlighting the many early achievements and challenges of a predominantly female profession.

The collection can be viewed online at https://dai.mun.ca/digital/occuptherapy