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 is an ...

Christmas is often called the season of peace, but in 1883 a Boxing Day confrontation between Protestants and Catholics in ...

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 ...

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 been ...

The first thing I sought, before I even folded back the front cover, was the origin of this book’s main title: Where Once They Stood. It felt fraught with meaning and I felt like an idiot for not ...