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Stuart's Newfie Webpage

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Lark Harbour, Newfoundland 
Canada

Last updated 2000-04-14

photo: Lark Harbour Head
Lark Harbour Head from Sword Point, Governor's Island
Picture by Byron Wheeler

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I hope to continue the same level of reliability and quality of presentation at the new
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Happy Face       If you have not already done so, you are invited to sign our GUEST BOOKHappy Face

During the years since this webpage began (1996) I have received many messages of appreciation from a wide variety of people. Some are total strangers; some are people I have met briefly, either in person or via the Internet; many are people I have known quite well: past students of St James All-Grade School, Lark Harbour, where I served as Principal from 1974 to 1994. I am always happy to receive comments and e-mail messages from everyone, particularly my past students and expatriate Newfoundlanders wherever you may be. I am specially happy if my efforts here have been able to help those people keep in touch with home. Please keep those messages coming.

 Also I do not wish to forget those people who have not yet visited Newfoundland. If these webpages will provide you with useful information that may help you to decide on making a visit to Newfoundland, I would be glad to hear from you too, and to assist you in any way I am able.

 My apologies also to those who have noticed that the page went a very long time with no updating. I hope for a while at least to be more efficient in my page maintenance!

 Thanks to everyone who reads these pages, and especially to those who take the time to send me a few remarks. Don't forget to sign the Guest Book. (SLH)

About Our Communities

Lark Harbour is a small, very scenic town ( Pictures) on the west coast of Newfoundland, on the south side of the Bay of Islands and west of the City of Corner Brook. Combined with neighbouring York Harbour, there is a population of about eleven hundred, a K-12 school which sponsors an army cadet corps; there is also a public library, an Anglican church, a clinic operated by the VON, a Volunteer Fire Department, a community Round Table group, restaurants and take-outs, a bed-and-breakfast home, and several stores and businesses. The rugged and scenic Blow-Me-Down Provincial Park lies on the boundary between the two communities. Even within our civic limits are some of the most magnificent views to be found in Canada, or anywhere in the world.

NEW ITEM

THE FORGOTTEN BAY, my unpublished history of the Outer Bay of Islands, tells how the area was settled, from prehistory to modern times and Confederation with Canada in 1949. Contemporary accounts from letters, journals and newspapers are included, and extensive references for further reading are provided in endnotes and a detailed Bibliography.

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Review this CHRONOLOGY of events relating to the Outer Bay of Islands.

Learn about the EARLY SETTLERS IN OUR COMMUNITIES, and some of the problems they had to cope with.

Learn HOW OUR COMMUNITIES GOT THEIR INTRIGUING NAMES, and what was cooking here in 1767.

Find out about the FIRST EUROPEAN TO ENTER THE BAY OF ISLANDS, and the big codfish he caught.

PICTURE ESSAYS OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND OTHER PLACES

See LARK HARBOUR : NEWFOUNDLAND FISHING VILLAGE, a collection of pictures.

View an illustrated account of The MATTHEW's visit to Lark Harbour on 23 July 1997.

See some pictures of ST JOHN'S : CANADA'S OLDEST CITY.

Discover about the history of RAILWAYS in NEWFOUNDLAND, and a very fascinating "might-have-been" project of two great Canadians that would have changed the map of eastern North America, had it come to pass.

And see a little of what it was like in MONTRÉAL during the ICE STORM of 1998 ... pictures and text.

SIGHTS of the MONTRÉAL REGION A glimpse of some of the sights and locations, historic and modern, private and commercial, that give to La ville de Montréal and its environs a unique cultural heritage.

Please email me with remarks about the webpages or about anything else.

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