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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.
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]
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 ...
Newfoundland and Labrador's arts community is now recognized nationally and internationally. Fogo Island Arts, launched in 2008 on Fogo Island, supports a residency-based contemporary art program. [30] In 2013 and 2015, the province was represented at the Venice Biennale as Official Collateral Projects. [31]
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]
The Groswater culture was a Paleo-Eskimo culture that existed in Newfoundland and Labrador from 800 BC to 200 BC. The culture was of Arctic origin and migrated south after the decline of the Maritime Archaic people following the 900 BC Iron Age Cold Epoch. It is believed to have been replaced by or developed into the Dorset culture around 2000 ...
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.
This is a list of historic places in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador entered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places, whether they are federal, provincial, or municipal. For reasons of length, the list has been divided as follows: St. John's; Avalon Peninsula except St. John's; Labrador; Western Newfoundland; Central Newfoundland