Twenty-nine NFB clips from five films made in
Newfoundland in the 1940s and 50s. View them with new, fast, streaming technology in our NFB Gallery.
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Our new Salt-Fish Essays section. We've added
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Mrs. Abbie Whiffen's
remarkable essay about growing up in the Trinity Bay outport of Caplin Cove-Hant's
Harbour. Check out Growing Up 'Up in Cove'.
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A brand new multimedia essay
on the northern fisheries: the Labrador inshore salt fisheries of livyer, stationers, and
mercantile rooms -- with a special focus on Battle Harbour: Fishing the Labrador Coast.
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The Centrality of Women. This
short essay that explores the roles of women in the salt fisheries has now been remounted
with images from the PANL collection.
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Our brand new Education Section. This is a new,
experimental direction for the site that introduces the Newfoundland salt fisheries to
grade-nine students using the Department of Education's Social Studies curriculum
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We have provided resources for teachers.
These include: curriculum and web objectives, lesson plans that are directly tied into our
site, and other resource links on and off of our site. Go to the Teacher's Area.
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For students there is a lively multimedia
essay with audio and video clips, online puzzles, a fish-landing game, and a quiz. Click
here to check out the Students' Area.
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And there is lots
more...
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Over 120 new photos spread
around our salt fish essays, our Known
Gallery and our Mystery
Gallery -- especially from the Labrador coasts!
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18 new audio clips with new faster streaming
formats available for all of the clips-- old and new.
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Two new Flash and Javascripit slideshows:
"Tools of the Trade" and "Ghost Outports". As well, all of our old
shows have been re-scripted in Flash and Javascript to run more reliably and more quickly.
Click HERE to go to our slideshows.
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New pop-up glossary definitions embedded in
the text of our essays as well as our old style glossary found on the tab above.
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We have a whole new graphical look with
streamlined frames and non-frames versions that load faster and work better!
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We hope you enjoy our new content and our
new look and feel. We would be very happy to hear your comments -- positive or negative!
To let us know what you think check out our feedback forms and guest-book by clicking on
the tabs found above.
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