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    • Newfoundland at Armageddon - CBC Documentaries →

    This documentary.  

    I got to listen to the excellent Michael Winter talk about his book on the topic this past Canada Day, at a literary event in Margaree.  Many days later the image he quoted in it’s title, Into the Blizzard, doesn’t leave my mind: a man who was there describing these Newfoundland soldiers walking into a wall of gunfire at the Somme the same way they walked headlong into and through a icy blizzard back home.  Forward with a shoulder ahead, tucking the chin of their face into it, and pushing through.  Being from another province, sometimes we don’t think about just what it means to say that Newfoundland didn’t join Canada until 1949.  This story, this story.

    July 15, 2016
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