Corner Brook, Newfoundland & Labrador Blog
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If you have not had the chance, you should pop over to visit CornerBrooker.com. Tom Cochrane, the guy behind the Corner Brook based website, is doing an awesome job writing about many of the things that are going on in Corner Brook. From their about page. Welcome to the Corner Brooker, a grass roots based [...]
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Pathfinder is a blog by Newfoundlander Perry Burton that documents his journey of building a 17ft cruising sailboat designed by a well known NewZealand native John Welsford. Perry started the blog in May of 2008 and I have enjoyed watching / reading about his hobby / passion for some time. He started the blog to [...]
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moovy.ca is an online interactive and collaborative community space for emerging and professional filmmakers. moovy.ca is based in St. John’s, Newfoundland. The moovy Story moovy was formed to help independent filmmakers in Newfoundland and Labrador to get “a leg up in getting their projects financed, made, marketed and sold.” According to their about us page, [...]
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The other night, in the comfort of my 1991 room at the Mt. Peyton in Grand Falls, I watched the election results come in. What made one of the most boring federal elections in recent memory the most interesting for me was – how I watched the results. In a word Twitter. Try and un-ring [...]
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Recently I came across a Newfoundland Blog by Irene Duma called Hello Newfoundland. About Hello Newfoundland According to the about us page Hello Newfoundland is created by filmmaker, actor and web designer Irene Duma who moved to St. John’s from Toronto in the summer of 2008 – because she really really liked it here. In [...]
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Great video trailer for the movie Outlander staring James Caviezel. According to Wikipedia, part of the video was shot right here in the Bay Of Islands just outside of Corner Brook. Filming was also done at the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, which was found by a production designer who looked at photos of Newfoundland’s west [...]
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So what is it? Pease pudding or peas pudding? You get more search results using Pease rather then Peas. According to Wikipedia, “pease” pudding was traditionally produced in the industrial North Eastern areas of England. Many people from Newfoundland and Labrador serve peas pudding with traditional Jigs Dinner. Do you know where the word Jigs [...]
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Dan at Crazy About Newfoundland has posted the following YouTube video with some great old pictures of Newfoundland.
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Regardless of how anyone felt about the The Independent or the editorial direction, I think it’s fair to say that most people lament the loss of any news outlet. I recently came across a new website here in Newfoundland and Labrador called NL Press and my first impressions are very positive. The about us page [...]
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Bloomberg is reporting that almost 1 in 3 new homeowners in the United States now owes more on their mortgage then their properties are worth. They classify a new homeowner as anyone who has purchased a house within the last five years. Second-quarter home prices fell 9.9 percent from a year earlier, giving 29 percent [...]
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