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Post by alum on Sept 8, 2021 6:41:33 GMT -5
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Post by hchoops on Sept 8, 2021 7:12:32 GMT -5
“Come From Away” was a wonderful Broadway play about what Gander did then.
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Post by lou on Sept 8, 2021 7:41:55 GMT -5
“Come From Away” was a wonderful Broadway play about what Gander did then. A special performance, earlier in '21, for survivors, relatives and others, now being shown on AppleTV
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Sept 8, 2021 13:33:26 GMT -5
Canadians excel at rising to a challenge
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Post by newfieguy74 on Sept 8, 2021 16:15:04 GMT -5
“Come From Away” was a wonderful Broadway play about what Gander did then. A few years ago I discovered that my people emigrated from Cork, Ireland to Newfoundland, where they were fisherman. Going to Newfoundland and specifically to Gander are bucket list items for me. I loved the play.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Sept 8, 2021 17:37:06 GMT -5
“Come From Away” was a wonderful Broadway play about what Gander did then. A few years ago I discovered that my people emigrated from Cork, Ireland to Newfoundland, where they were fisherman. Going to Newfoundland and specifically to Gander are bucket list items for me. I loved the play. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, there was a substantial migration of Irish to Newfoundland. Previously, the fishermen would sail to the Grand Banks in the summer, catch their fish, and return to Ireland. www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/irish-migration.phpA direct line on my mother's side is County Wexford to St. John's, circa 1800. My great, great, great grandfather apparently arrived in St. John's with some money, for he promptly bought farmland. His land abutted that of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, a crown court as Canada was a crown colony. He was educated as well, I can read his will which he signed. His sons were not, their wills are signed with an X.
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Post by newfieguy74 on Sept 8, 2021 18:05:21 GMT -5
It was my great grandfather who emigrated from Cork, and he ended up marrying a woman whose Irish immigrant family had already lived in Newfoundland for at least three generations. My great grandfather is buried in Harbor Grace, a small fishing town. I jokingly said to one of my siblings that we might be entitled to Canadian citizenship, but I was surprised to learn that NF was part of Great Britain until 1948.
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