When 22-year-old Louisa Journeaux stepped into a rowboat one quiet Sunday evening, she couldn’t have imagined that the whole world would hear about it.…
Newfoundlander Bob Bartlett (right) and famous explorer Robert Peary (left) were a dynamic duo of Arctic exploration who faced triumph and controversy in their…
During Prohibition when booze was banned, reluctant liquor control officer Clifford Rose found himself in the middle of a dispute between a corrupt politician…
Hugh Corkum was the wireless operator of The Liberty, the fastest rum running ship operating in the Maritimes during Prohibition when booze was banned.…
L’anse aux meadows, Newfoundland Half a millennium before Christopher Columbus set eyes on North America, Vikings built several settlements across Atlantic Canada, only one…
August 31, 2021
1600s and Before •Forgotten Ruins •Newfoundland •North Shore •Nova Scotia •War •Long Read
Not modern hipsters, but rum runners from a century ago. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick P6-1232 Maritime farmers and fishermen who had spent their…
Artist William Hogarth made a career out of critiquing drinking in his paintings and etchings in the 1700s. (William Hogarth, Beer Street, 1750–51) It…
February 24, 2021
1600s and Before •1700s •1800s •1900s •Moncton •Nova Scotia •PEI •Rum Runners •Women •Long Read •Popular
The Maritimes' most feared gangster, the prohibition era rum running kingpin who went by the alias "Joe Walnut." (Archives des Religieuses Hospitalieres de Saint-Basile,…
