As the world wonders whether the coronavirus will turn into a pandemic, historical evidence details how the former colony of Newfoundland dealt with fear and prepared for the worst during cholera ...

Sir Ambrose Shea, of Newfoundland, who has been in Washington for the past two weeks, representing the commercial interests of that colony respecting questions of trade relation between that ...

As in Canada’s maritime Provinces, one of which the Colony of Newfoundland has steadfastly refused to become, the unemployment and relief problem on the island springs largely from the ...

THE COLONY OF UNREQUITED DREAMS. Wayne Johnston. Doubleday. $24.95. 562 pp.Joe Smallwood, who was the first premier of Newfoundland after it voted in 1948 to confederate with Canada, probably ...

Patti Broughton, 41, is executive director of the Colony of Avalon (www.colonyofavalon.ca), a nonprofit heritage site south of St. John’s, Newfoundland, at the easternmost part of Canada. Here ...

FERRYLAND, NEWFOUNDLAND—A small copper crucifix with the Virgin Mary and Christ Child on its back has been unearthed at the Colony of Avalon site on the coast of Newfoundland. The territory had ...

The Vikings landed in what is now Newfoundland, Canada around the year A.D. 1000. So why didn't they colonize the region like other Europeans did centuries later?

Heidi Coombs reaches into a box labelled "quarantine letters." She pulls out a bound booklet and reads from a proclamation dated July 17, 1832. It's the duty, the letter said, "of every inhabitant of ...