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Works about Newfoundland and Labrador (3 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Culture of Newfoundland and Labrador" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
Mummering is a Christmas-time house-visiting tradition practiced in Newfoundland and Labrador, Ireland, Philadelphia, and parts of the United Kingdom. Also known as mumming or janneying , it typically involves a group of friends or family who dress in disguise and visit homes within their community or neighboring communities during the twelve ...
Newfoundland and Labrador [b] is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region of Labrador, having a total size of 405,212 km 2 (156,453 sq mi). As of 2024 the population of Newfoundland and Labrador was estimated to be 545,880. [8]
Television shows filmed in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (17 P) Pages in category "Culture of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The Rooms is Newfoundland and Labrador's cultural facility, and is in the downtown area. [133] Other museums include the Railway Coastal Museum, a transportation museum in the 104-year-old Newfoundland and Labrador train station building on Water Street. [134] The Johnson Geo Centre is a geological interpretation centre on Signal Hill. [135]
Use of three collections of Newfoundland songs [79] demonstrates how by 1930 or so a Newfoundland song culture had replaced earlier cultural traditions. These songs suggest that the island was still a cultural mosaic; some outports were completely Irish, others were West Country, and in a few ethnically mixed communities, including St. John's ...
The cultural milieu in which those early Irish thrived is evidenced today both in the material culture and vibrant oral traditions for which Tilting is so well known. Tilting is one of the few rural Newfoundland communities where the full range of the buildings associated with the traditional family-based, inshore fishery can still be experienced.
Newfoundland and Labrador is an Atlantic Canadian province with a folk musical heritage based on the Irish, English and Cornish traditions. Newfoundland music, while clearly Celtic and seafaring in its orientation, has an identifiable style of its own.