Newfoundland Boy

My interview with Marjorie Doyle, author of Mary Foley, Mary Doyle (Boulder Books, 2024) ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Marjorie Doyle’s site: https://www.marjoriedoyle.ca/ 

○ Boulder Books: https://boulderbooks.ca/product/mary-foley-mary-doyle/ 

○ Amazon.ca:  https://www.amazon.ca/Mary-Foley-Doyle-Unravelling-mothers/dp/1989417914/▬ 

Degrees of good and bad service exist everywhere, but in St. John’s at least, they seem to be extreme ▬ 

My interview with Nicole Penney, Assistant Archivist at MUNFLA, Memorial University’s Folklore and Language Archive ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Memorial University, MUNFLA,  https://www.mun.ca/munfla/ 

○ Painting of W.J. Kirwin, one of the editors of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, located at the Folklore and Language Archive, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZaFYY8MQ46hB_IeRKlYE4Kv36QC-D7k/view?usp=sharing ▬ 

Newfoundland English, a puzzling complaint for a Zimbabwean doctor to hear, and my own experience with health care in St. John’s ▬ 

Sources: 

○ Canadian Medical Association, How Is Health Care Funded in Canada?, https://www.cma.ca/how-health-care-funded-canada 

○ CBC Radio, “Dr. Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia’s Journey from Zimbabwe to Newfoundland to the Canadian Senate,” The Sunday Magazine, June 15, 2018, https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-edition-june-17-2018-1.4692469/dr-mohamed-iqbal-ravalia-s-journey-from-zimbabwe-to-newfoundland-to-the-canadian-senate-1.4707848 

○ CBC Radio, “My Own Private Twillingate,” The Sunday Edition, https://www.cbc.ca/nl/features/privatetwillingate/ 

○ “Is ‘Dicky Bird’ a Newfoundland Thing?,” Reddit, 2022, https://www.reddit.com/r/newfoundland/comments/ukn276/comment/i7ra458/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button 

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Welcome to Twillingate, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/destinations/twillingate 

○ “Twillingate Islands,” Wikipedia, August 23, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twillingate_Islands  

○ “Twillingate,” Wikipedia, April 24, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twillingate 

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I celebrate Mothers Day in person with my mother ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ Mike Ellis, Newfoundland Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Newfoundland Terms and Phrases, Gibbs Smith, 2019 ▬ 

○ “molasses,” Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, 2nd edition with supplement, 1990, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/#2921 

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Is St. John’s the oldest city in North America? ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ Joan Rusted. St. John’s: A Brief History. Breakwater Books, 2011 

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/ 

○ “List of Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities,” Wikipedia, May 15, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities 

Some notes about driving across Newfoundland ▬ 

Sarcastic greeting cards and good people ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ Photos of a restaurant, greeting cards, and a dress, https://photos.app.goo.gl/KkXdgY4he9sTwA2U8

○ Oxford Dictionary of English, 3rd edition, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001

○ “Tilt Cove,” Wikipedia, February 20, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_Cove

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How I became calm ▬ 

Source ▬ 

○  Georgios Kakarinos and Theodoros Koutsomitros, “Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP),” July 7, 2019, in EFPT Psychotherapy Guidebook, https://epg.pubpub.org/pub/istdp/release/5 

I haven’t been from Newfoundland in a very long while ▬ 

Sources ▬ 

○ “List of municipalities in Newfoundland and Labrador,” Wikipedia, November 1, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ List_of_municipalities_in_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

○ Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Immigration, Population Growth and Skills, St. John’s Population and Labour Market Overview Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), February 2023, https://www.gov.nl.ca/labourmarketinformation/files/Census-2021-Profile-St.-Johns-CMA.pdf

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Statistics Agency, St. John’s Census Metropolitan Area, 2016, https://www.stats.gov.nl.ca/Maps/pdfs/StJohnsCMA.pdf

○ Statistics Canada, Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population: Profile Table, Newfoundland and Labrador, February 1, 2023, https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&SearchText=Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador&DGUIDlist=2021A000210&GENDERlist=1,2,3&STATISTIClist=1,4&HEADERlist=0 ▬