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Grand Concourse Launches Interactive Walking Map
6/17/2009 4:21:25 PM

by Ed Kirby,
Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism 
Want to find out how far you walk, or how many calories you burned on that trek up Signal Hill? Maybe you're interested in a themed walk around the St. John's metro area. The new interactive map at grandconcourse.ca will help you do all that and much mor... Read more
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From Sketch to Signature: Watercolour Video
6/16/2009 4:15:09 PM

Source: Grant W. Fuller  
Across the province, you can find beautiful watercolor paintings depicting the Newfoundland and Labrador way of life, as well as its unique landscape. Ever wonder the process behind making one of these works of art?
Grant W. Fuller has a video that can show you how one of these stu... Read more
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St. John's Aims High
6/11/2009 2:19:28 PM

Source: Steve English
Aeroplan Arrival 
St. John's, the provincial capital, has begun to rival Halifax as Atlantic Canada's hipster nexus thanks to a network of artists, musicians and entrepreneurs. All this and torn-from-a-postcard good looks, too.
The city's snug streets, lined with candy-coloured hou... Read more
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Spirits of the Vikings
6/11/2009 2:19:21 PM

Source: Janie Robinson
The Star

Clayton Colbourne grew up playing with ghosts – the spirits of Vikings that lived on the grassy shores of L'Anse aux Meadows fishing village, more than 1,000 years ago.
"We always called them the Indian mounds when we were kids," says the 59-year-old Newf... Read more
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Newfoundland Celebrates Arctic Explorer
6/11/2009 2:19:13 PM

Source: Rick Cropp and Barbara Braidwood
Canwest News Service (published in The Star Phoenix)

Capt. Robert Bartlett, an explorer born in Newfoundland who became a sea captain at the age of 17, led one of the most famous expeditions to the Arctic in 1909. He captained the ship that took Robert Pear... Read more
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Newfoundland Travels - Labrador
6/11/2009 9:12:12 AM

Source: City Travel Guides
Travel Articles
A beautiful day for traveling in Labrador. Travel the Trans Labrador Highway. Stop at L'Anse Amour, the site of a grave 7,500 years old. The grave site was found by a group of students who thought that the rock pattern was quite unusual. Under the rock they found an en... Read more
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Quidi Vidi Lake
6/11/2009 9:11:58 AM

Source: Meg Coles
Suite 101
Residents from St. John's don't have to be told twice. Jeans are thrown to the back of closets and short sleeves take priority when the temperature turns toward pleasant on the Avalon Peninsula. Newfoundlanders have been waiting all winter for those first few days in the double digit... Read more
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Grenfell Heritage Day celebrations planned for St. Anthony
6/11/2009 9:11:50 AM

Source: Northern Pen
Grenfell Heritage Day celebrations are set for Tuesday, July 14. The annual event, organized by the Grenfell Foundation, will be held from 7:30 a.m. till midnight.
Heritage Day at St. Anthony celebrates the life and work of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell and his devotion to improving the lives of resid... Read more
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Flower River Lodge, Labrador
6/11/2009 9:11:32 AM

Source: Wilson's Fly Fishing
DiscoverFlyFishing.com 
WILSON'S is pleased to be working with Jim Burton of Flowers River Lodge in Labrador. Nestled in the mountains of northern Labrador 166 miles north of Goose Bay, Flowers River Lodge is a remote location with little angling pressure and the fishing here i... Read more
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Find may indicate medieval Norse presence in Nunavut.
6/10/2009 4:47:41 PM

Souce: Gwinna
Anthropologist blog
One of Canada's top Arctic archeologists says the remnants of a stone- and-sod wall unearthed on southern Baffin Island may be traces of a shelter built more than 700 years ago by Norse seafarers - a stunning find that would be just the second location in the New World wit... Read more
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