Living Heritage Podcast Ep168 Tilting Expatriates Association with Winnie Hamilton

Winnie is president of the the Tilting Expatriates Association, a group of former citizens of Tilting, Fogo Island. Since 1983, the Association has served as a means of contact between members, worked to preserve the cultural heritage of Tilting, and provided a way to organize charitable assistance to present and former residents of Tilting. The Tilting Expatriates Association publishes a quarterly newsletter and annual magazine. 

Learn more about the Tilting Expatriates Association here.
Learn more about the Feile Tilting here, an event organized by the Tilting community.



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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.
Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

A rare look inside the St. John's Tuberculosis Sanatorium.

This week, we were in North River helping scan photos and recipes as part of an ongoing community project. One of the participants, Sylvia Hurley, had a great collection of family photos, including some which were taken at or inside the tuberculosis sanatorium in St. John's. They give an interesting peek inside "The San" at Christmastime, decorated for the season.  The photos are undated, and the people in the photographs are unknown. Comment or contact us if you have any information!

The idea of a sanatorium in St. John's was supported by Governor Sir William MacGregor in 1908, and meetings on the tuberculosis crisis led to the formation of the Newfoundland Association for the Prevention of Consumption. A tuberculosis camp for women was established near Mundy Pond in 1911, but the outbreak of the First World War put plans for a larger facility on hold until 1916-17. After the Second World War, drugs to fight tuberculosis improved, and by 1972, all the sanatoria beds in the province had been closed.

If you have photos or memories of the sanatorium, email dale@heritagenl.ca

UPDATE: 27 April 2020

Christina Penney send on this photo, also from the san, featuring her great aunt. She writes,

She's the patient in the bed on the left. Her name was Christina May Alexander, born in Bonavista in 1915, and died in the Sanitorium in St. John's in 1942 (age 27). Looks like another Christmas photo, but I'm not sure the exact year, but probably early 1940s.

Can you identify any of the other people?

UPDATE: 1 May 2020

Robert "Bob" Francis sent us three more photos, and some more photo-identification work. He writes,

The first picture us of my mom, Lucy who was in the San in the mid 1950s. The second picture is of my mom and her sister in law, Dorothy who was also in the San. The third picture is of myself, on the left, age 5, the other person is unknown.

If you have a memory of the sanatorium, post below, or if you have old photos, send them to me at dale@heritagenl.ca and I'll add them here.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep167 The General Protestant Cemetery with Suzanne Sexty

Suzanne Sexty has been researching the St. John's General Protestant Cemetery and the people buried there since her retirement in 2001. She first moved to Newfoundland in 1968 to work at the Henrietta Harvey Library at Memorial University, and has worked at different libraries in the province and the United States. Suzanne has also recently co-authored a book titled Long Overdue: SS Beverly (1885-1918) about a mercantile ship and crew lost during The First World War. She chats with fellow taphophile Dale Jarvis about the history of the cemetery, and some of its storied inhabitants.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum
professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the
community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio.
Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing. Photo by Krissy Holmes/CBC.

North River Ascension New Horizons - bringing together seniors, youth, and food stories! #FolkloreThursday

We are working on a fun new cookbook project in cooperation with the Town of North River and Ascension Collegiate in Bay Roberts. We've been meeting at the highschool, where we have been having intergenerational chats about food memories, and the young people have been teaching the older people how to use their tablets, laptops, and phones. 

The next step will be to get the students doing some oral history and folklore interviews with the participants about their food stories and memories, digitizing some old photographs and cookbooks, and then pulling everything together into a collection of stories that will be part cookbook and part local history book. 

The group has started a Facebook page here:  North River Ascension New Horizons

The town will be hosting a recipe and photo scanning event on Tuesday, Feb 11th, starting at 10am.  Bring your old family recipes, those cocoa-stained cookbooks with all the notes, and your old family photo albums.  Have a cup of tea, and we'll scan them for you right there, and you can take your materials home again immediately!  We'd love to have a photo and recipe from each North River family if possible. 

Living Heritage Podcast Ep166 The Photographic Historical Society with Edith Cuerrier

Edith Cuerrier is a French Canadian who grew up near Montreal and has been living in Newfoundland for almost two decades.  Edith has a background in photography and photo preservation and has worked as an archivist, project cataloger, and military photographer. She served in the Royal Canadian Air Force for 22 years before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from Memorial University in 2006. In 2009, Edith completed a Master’s in photo preservation and collection management at Ryerson University. She works at The Rooms Provincial Archives in St. John’s. In 2016, Edith founded the Photographic Historical Society of Newfoundland.

You can join the society or learn more on the Photographic Historical Society on their Facebook page.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Multigenerational Mug Up - When I Was Your Age. Feb 13th

Heritage NL and Marjorie Mews Public Library are hosting a special Multigenerational Mug Up, entitled, "When I Was Your Age." We would love you to bring a memory about your youth, and to bring a friend, someone younger or older than yourself. It is a memory-sharing session for all ages, to encourage the flow of stories and memories across generations. Bring your mother, your auntie, your grandchild, your nephew, all welcome!

10am
Feb 13th
Marjorie Mews Public Library
12 Highland Drive, St. John's

Living Heritage Podcast Ep165 The Tidal Wave Tsunami with Carl Slaney

In this episode, Carl Slaney of Laurentian Legacy Tours talks about the new tour he is developing for the summer of 2020. Its a guided historical hiking tour about the Tidal Wave, a tsunami that devastated St. Lawrence, Newfoundland and surrounding communities in November of 1929. Carl shares residents personal accounts of the earthquake and tsunami, as well as the effects this event had in the years that followed.


Learn more about Laurentian Legacy Tours here.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Living Heritage Podcast Ep164 The Harry Hibbs Exhibit is Coming to Bell Island

Linda Hickey, Chair of the Bell Island Heritage Society, tells us all about a new exhibit on Newfoundland accordion player Harry Hibbs coming to the Bell Island Museum on July 25, 2020. We talk about the exhibit, Hibbs' influence on Newfoundland musicians and listeners, and discover that accordion music is alive and well on the island today.

Image of Harry Hibbs from Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador.

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The Living Heritage Podcast is about people who are engaged in the heritage and culture sector, from museum professionals and archivists, to tradition bearers and craftspeople - all those who keep history alive at the community level. The show is a partnership between HeritageNL and CHMR Radio. Theme music is Rythme Gitan by Latché Swing.

Winter Memories - A Mug Up (with free hot chocolate!) at Marjorie Mews, Jan 9th.

What are your winter memories of sliding, skating, ice fishing, new winter boots, or knitted mittens? Come tell us! You bring a memory, we'll brew up the hot chocolate!

The Mug Up Series is an informal story sharing session hosted by folklorist Dale Jarvis, where people gather, have a snack, and share memories. The event is free and open to anyone!

10am
Thursday, January 9th
Marjorie Mews Public Library.
12 Highland Drive, St. John's,