Category: Newfoundland and Labrador
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The CBC NL Pensioners Association Pop-Up Picnic
The CBC NL Pensioners Association Pop-Up Picnic on August 18, 2021 Wednesday was awesome! Warm weather and a gentle breeze greeted us with loads of shade avail to enjoy the festivities in Doreen’s backyard garden at Wedgewood Park, St. John’s. Perfecto. ? Check out the photos on the website: https://www.cbcpensioners.ca/member-galleries/ Lots of last-minute prep for our […]
read moreVirtual Reading with Anne Budgell – February 25, 2021
“Let ’em die”: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Labrador, by Anne Budgell During the second wave of the pandemic of “Spanish” influenza in 1918, the virus was brought to the coast of Labrador at the end of the fishing and shipping season. People started dying days after the last vessels sailed away for the long […]
read moreNL Region – Published Authors
The people of Newfoundland and Labrador are always staunchly proud of the accomplishments of their own people who achieve high levels of success in their chosen profession in many parts of the world. Download file.
read moreGreat time playing darts
It was a very cold day on February 20, 2019, with a wind chill of minus 25. Still that did not discourage the CBC pensioners in St. John’s from heading to the Royal Canadian Legion Club on Blackmarsh Road for an afternoon of darts and doughnuts. The air was hot inside as some of the […]
read moreNL/Labrador Christmas Luncheon 2018
There was fine food, lots of stories, plenty of laughter and some foolishness at this year’s annual Christmas Luncheon for members of the CBC Pensioners Association in St. John’s, NL. The event was held on Monday, December 10 at the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 1. President Bill Maher extended Christmas Greetings to everyone and thanked […]
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