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Stories

  • Charles Churchill’s Wooden Leg by Isabel Meadus Rowsell
  • Ches Piercey – Accidentally Killed Building a Government Wharf at Little Heart’s Ease by Lester Green
  • Christmas in St. Jones Without as told by Olive and Gordon Banton
  • Episode One of Hundreds by Eric Stringer
  • The Ghost by H. Joseph Seaward
  • Growing up in Long Beach by Gertie (Vey) Soper
  • Hanging on: Hillview, Hatchet Cove, St. Jones Within, Newfoundland Herald
  • Home Again by H. Joseph Seward
  • How the Kings of Loreburn came to Little Heart’s Ease by Lester Green
  • The Journey Begins by Joseph Seward
  • Let’s Celebrate the Jacobs Family by Lester Green
  • Life’s About People – QSL Voice
  • Memories of our families old Silvertone radio by Lester Green
  • Old Colony Airways Land at Hodge’s Cove, 1934 by Jim Peddle
  • Random and the Nuclear Age by Leslie Dean
  • Struggle in 1888
  • The Un-Natural by Ron Stone
  • Visit to Deer Harbour, 1951 by Jim Peddle
  • Working as a Domestic in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage Website

New Items-

- 1972 photo of United Church On the Point, Little Heart's Ease
- 1972 photo of Southport
- Smoked Herring from Newfoundland, 1924
- Profile of Captain John Peddle (1850-1918)
- Photo c1960s of Lower side of Little Heart's Ease
- Two photos added to People of Little Heart's Ease
- Photo of St. Jones Within, c1960s
- Fatality at Harpoon Steady, 1923
- 1964 photo of Little Heart's Ease
- Clarenville Packet, August 1968
- Obituaries for William Drodge, 1951; Elizabeth Ann Smith, 1958; Stephen Price, 1958
- Clarenville Packet, July 1968
- Additional information on Salvation Army
- Obituary for Kenneth Hastings, 1968
- Obituaries for Sarah (Sally) Drover (nee Barfitt) and Minnie Murphy (nee Seward)
- Bloomfield edges Hodge's Cove 5-4, Clarenville Packet, March 28, 1968
- Updated information on schooner A. Davis
- Obituary for Alphaeus Barfitt, 1975

Honouring Southwest Arm Military Women

  (Click on image to enlarge)   The general public is invited to attend this year’s … [Read More...]

Remembrance Day 2025

On Remembrance Day, the Southwest Arm Historical Society will be be holding a special ceremony at … [Read More...]

2025 Summer Events:

July  1st: Memorial Service at 10:50 a.m. at the Southwest Arm War Memorial, Hodge's … [Read More...]

Remembrance Day 2023

Special thanks to Crystal Martin for all her work on this wonderful video of our Remembrance Day … [Read More...]

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-Dictionary of Newfoundland English
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-Newfoundland Grand Banks, Genealogical and historical data for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador
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