Hywel “Taff” Roberts will present a talk, The History of Newfoundland and Its People, on Thursday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the Winona County Historical Society.

Pictured here, children watching a house being towed from Fox Island. August 1961. (National Archives of Canada, PA-154123) Between the mid-1950s and the early 1970s, the Newfoundland government ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) The Newfoundland Company went bankrupt in 1631 and it was only after 1650 that the colonization of the island took off.

Jeff Webb, a history professor at Memorial University ... It was already costly to make things in Newfoundland — an island in the North Atlantic Ocean — and the taxes just made everything ...

Boasting a jagged coastline of almost 6,000 miles, Newfoundland is roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the island of Ireland. Many of the Irish who settled in Newfoundland came from small ...

Fogo Island is not so much a place as a state of mind. With a long maritime history, the largest offshore island of Newfoundland and Labrador is a gentle world of bright-colored clapboard houses ...

The Faroes? $98,000 per person. Like Newfoundland and Labrador, the Faroese often have to pay higher prices as much is imported to support the islands. But through their fishing and salmon farming ...

If you’re going to Newfoundland, one of the most-sought ... Once ashore, I found the sleepy island’s little-changed history gradually unfolds. I drove past brightly painted clapboard houses ...

Grant Young says Newfoundland's Trump Islands have nothing to do with the U.S., but they ... It's got character, it's got history, it's caring." Years of enjoyment Young said he isn't sure where the ...

Jeff Webb, a history professor at Memorial University ... It was already costly to make things in Newfoundland — an island in the North Atlantic Ocean — and the taxes just made everything expensive, ...