Newfoundland
Written by: Julie Ovenell-CarterSome comments deserve to be elevated to full-fledged posts.
After I posted Three things about Canada, my old J-school pal Martha Muzychka–the first Newfoundlander I ever met way back in 1984–took up the challenge to write about her own backyard.
Here’s her excellent list:
(Feel free to do the same thing for your own hometown. Instructions: Start a note, cut-and-paste this, replace my answers with your own.)
Three names I go by:
1. The Rock (Newfoundland)
2. The Big Land (Labrador)
3. NL
Three places I have worked:
1. The Haunted Hike
2. Royal St. John’s Regatta
3. Woody Point Literary Festival
Three places I have lived:
1. Devon House Craft Centre
2. Anna Templeton Centre
3. Cabot Tower
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Hatching, Matching and Dispatching
2. This Hour has 22 Minutes
3. Land and Sea
Three places I have been:
1. Gros Morne
2. Happy Valley Goose Bay
3. Eastport
Three people who e-mail me:
1. Danny (Williams)
2. Damhnait (Doyle)
3. Michael (Crummey)
Three of my favorite foods:
1. fish and chips
2. tea buns
3. bread pudding
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop begging
2. Repeat the gold medal win in curling at the 2010 Winter Games
3. Teach people how to dance a jig
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. People stop using the term Newf or Newfie to describe the people of the province
2. The 2010 JUNO Awards
3. Maintaining status as a have province!
Ok, Rest of Canada: your turn…and I promise to give your province or city its very own post too…
Sarah Geddes
on March 10th, 2009Hi Julie, greetings from Calgary!
Three names I go by:
1. Cowtown
2. Centre of the Universe (sorry TO!)
3. Gateway to the Rockies
Three TV shows I watch:
1. Dragon’s Den
2. Real Life Housewives of Orange County
3. Til Debt do Us Part
Three places I have been:
1. Cowboys
2. Chinook Centre
3. Mountains
Three people who e-mail me:
1. charities
2. people looking for a job
3. people looking for a deal in the mountains
Three of my favorite foods:
1. Alberta beef
2. sushi – which some of you might find confusing
3. Bernard Callebaut chocolate
Three things I would like to do:
1. Stop defending myself as second fiddle to TO
2. Be known for more than the Calgary Stampede
3. Be known worldwide as the gateway – worthy of a stopover – to the Canadian Rockies
Three things I am looking forward to:
1. Gaining recognition as culinary hotspot of Canada:)
2. Watching Gillian on The Bachelorette shake her Canadian/Albertan bootie on the next season
3. Handing the Olympic torch to Vancouver
Gillian Marx
on March 19th, 2009Here are some things that I think are outstanding about Newfoundland and Labrador….of course my list could reach 300 so narrowing them down to 3 is tricky
1) Whales and Bergs – this is where their paths cross
2) Cape Spear – the mostly easterly point in North America
3) Home to 2 UNESCO World Heritage sites – L’Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site – the only authenticated Viking site in North America and Gros Morne National Park – A journey to the center of the earth.