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Stories

  • Ches Penney – Accidentally Killed Building a Government Wharf at Little Heart’s Ease
  • Memories of our families old Silvertone radio
  • How the Kings of Loreburn came to Little Heart’s Ease
  • Growing up in Long Beach
  • Hanging on: Hillview, Hatchet Cove, St. Jones Within
  • Community of the Month – Little Heart’s Ease
  • Life’s About People – QSL Voice
  • The Un-Natural
  • Episode One of Hundreds
  • Christmas in St. Jones Without
  • Working as a Domestic in St. John’s
  • Struggle in 1888
  • Let’s Celebrate the Jacobs Family

New Items

- Donations to War Memorial Fund
- Lay the keel of a 60-ton schooner
- Obituary for Eldred Goobie, 1999
- Glad he joined the Royal Naval Reserve
- A Fire Alarm, 1916
- Child Fires House, 1916
- Little Heart's Ease Solid for Govt.
- Photos Northern Bight Station
- Heart's Ease Notes, 1917
- Obituary for Mary M. (Smith) Avery, 2010
- Obituary for Rita (Smith) Houlahan
- Wedding Bells, Smith-Spurrell, 1920
- Obituary for Ida Marguerite (Stoyles) Newman Reynolds
- A Soldier's Cousin Writes
- A Mother's Sacrifice
- SUF Parade 1925
- Obituary for Leander Drodge, 2010
- Obituary for Ethel Frances Jacobs
- Heart's Ease Notes, January 28, 1919
- Obituaries for Thomas Smith, 1918 and Amelia (Langer) Strowbridge, 1919
- Incidents of Winter Travel, 1911
- Poem "In Memoriam" written by William Henry Smith, 1936
- Simeon Vey and George Peddle receipts from Ryan Brothers
- Memorial to Leander Drover
- Autobiography of a Salvation Army Teacher in 1955
- 15 photos of Butter Cove
- The Halifax Explosion: A Reservist Writes Home, December 1917
- Master Boatbuilder [Eleazer Hiscock]
- Tragic Loss of HMS Laurentic
- Obituary for Nehemiah Stringer
- Obituaries for Allan Dean, Mildred Smith, and Marguerite Stringer
- War Memorial
- The Soldier Behind the Statue [Leander Green]
- Sarah Francis
- Back Where he Belongs
- Prisoner of War, The shocking true story of Private Andrew Shaw
- Two photos added to People of Little Heart's Ease
- Two photos added to People of Butter Cove Collection
- Obituary for Alex Strowbridge, March 1991
- Two new photos of People of Caplin Cove
- Seven new photos of People of Little Heart's Ease
- Three new photos of People of Butter Cove
- Added image to Midwife Jessie (Benson) Strong Price page
- Obituaries for Anne Barfett, Gordon Loder, James Roy Parsons, Gerald Price, Allison Spurrell, Marie Stringer, Ross Vivian, and Karen Whalen
- School desk added to Virtual Museum
- 13 photos of Butter Cove
- New photo of Butter Cove children

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Raising Funds for War Memorial

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Profile of Nicholas Avery

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