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When the centennial bells ring out, wildly, in the tiny outport churches of Newfoundland, in the cathedrals of Quebec City, in Peace Tower on Parliament Hill, in prairie steeples and out to the West Coast, they will ring in a 100th year that Canadians should indeed find a cause for cheer. In the sound and fury of the centennial celebrations, Canadians are bound to hear echoes of their own success in turning the wilderness into a thriving nation...
...South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life as a journalist in Manhattan, Russell headed north on the scent of some wave-swept map specks off Newfoundland's and Nov Scotia's stern coasts. Among them were Hay Island, periodically exposed to it roots by the incredible fall of the Fundy tide, and Funk Island, on whose granite crest the great auk passed into extinction. Russell effectively translates for nonislomanes the mystical tug of the secret...
...England, invited Franklin to initiate a correspondence. A few weeks later Richard Oswald, a sagacious Scot, arrived in Paris with authority to negotiate. Franklin dutifully informed Vergennes, and then informed Oswald of the principal American peace conditions: "compleat independence," territorial integrity, freedom to fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland, freedom to navigate the Mississippi, no treaty without full French approval...
...Historical Society of America, warned directly: We are going to put Yale against the wall. La Corte threatened to enlist the National Geographic Society in support of Columbus, but dropped the idea when he learned it was the Geographic that sponsored the 1963 excavation of a Scandinavian village in Newfoundland that dates from about...
...Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right to catch Fish on the Banks of Newfoundland...