The reception these travelers received in the central Newfoundland communities near the airport has been one of the most widely reported happy stories surrounding that day.
Burnt Islands, like many Newfoundland coastal communities, developed around the fishery.
Like many rural Newfoundland communities, the population of Burnt Islands is beginning to age.
The Targa Newfoundland is made possible though the efforts of 2,200+ volunteers and members of 70+ Newfoundland communities.
He taught school in various Newfoundland communities, also serving as vice-principal and principal.
Tilting is one of the few rural Newfoundland communities where the full range of the buildings associated with the traditional family-based, inshore fishery can still be experienced.
After teaching in several small Newfoundland communities during the 1920s and 1930s, interspersed with stints at Memorial University College, he became a magistrate.
At the remote Newfoundland logging community of Deer Lake near the beginning of the campaign, he caught the mood of his audience perfectly.
The Newfoundland community of Terenceville was so named in his honour.
He was brought up in a variety of Newfoundland communities as his father John Pratt was posted around the colony as a Methodist minister.