An icon of the French cultural presence in Newfoundland, the late Emile Benoit is shown with his beloved fiddle outside his home in Black Duck Brook, 1985.
Photo by Louise Abbott
In this issue:
Feature Articles ...
500 Candles!—A Celebration Year for Francophones in Newfoundland and Labrador by Sophie Roch (translated by Marc Despatie)
2004 marks the 500th year of French presence in the province, the 400th anniversary of the founding of l'Acadie and the 100th year since France gave up its fishing rights on the historic French Shore. The province's francophones will have many candles to blow out this year.[ read online ]
D'un Caillou à un Rock ou le dialogue de deux peintres en quête d'expansion de vision par Claude L'Espagnol (with translation by Sue Crocker)
It was twenty years ago that Jean-Claude Roy hung his first paintings of the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon on the walls of the St. Pierre Cultural Centre. The explosion of dreary subarctic scenes done in exaggerated colours were the catalysts for the work of Jean-Claude Girardin.
Excursions and Entertainments in 19th-Century Newfoundland by Henri de la Chaume (translated by Dr. James M.F. McGrath)
Henri de la Chaume came to Newfoundland in 1883 as an attaché to the French Consul in St. John's. On his return to France, he published a book about his experiences in the colony. The following diary entries are taken from the closing sections of Newfoundland: The Land and its Ladies.
Ode-Fashioned Music by Jenny Higgins
Adopted in May 1904 as Newfoundland's colonial anthem, the Ode to Newfoundland has had an eventful inception and maturation, undergoing a series of musical metamorphoses, copyright disputes and legal technicalities before becoming the song now recognized as Newfoundland's provincial anthem.
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