Family Life
These log structures chinked with moss sheltered a lone hunter during the long season.
What is a tilt?
Newfoundlanders are known for welcoming guests into their home and offering food and drink to them. This is referred to as ____?
What is hospitality? (Candy Prize!)
What played a pivotal role in community status, operating schools, sponsoring social events and providing spiritual guidance?
What was the church? (Candy Prize!)
Communication in the early 19th century, was delivered by mail and spread by ____________?
What is word of mouth? (Candy Prize!)
This food now considered a delicacy in many parts of the world was once considered to be suitable for only the poor and less fortunate.
What is lobster? (Candy Prize!)
Famous residential architectural structure common in the 1800s that featured a peaked roof design.
What is a Salt Box house?
What was a 19th century Newfoundland game where teams played with two sticks?
What is Tiddly or Piddly (Candy Prize!)
Mary Southcott practiced nursing in St. John's in the early 1900s. She was responsible for helping to establish The Child Welfare Association, Girl Guides, and The League of Women Voters. Who else also is remembered as a pioneer who brought, and improved, medical care to Newfoundland and Labrador.
Who is Sir Wilfred Grenfell?
This communication system was developed in the mid 1800s and involved the use of morse code to transmit a message.
What is the telegraph?
What do you call a form of a language that is spoken in a particular part of a country, province or by a particular group of people. Some people call it “tis the way we talk b’y”.
What is dialect? (Candy Prize!)
Common residential structure in the early 1900s which featured a curved sloped roof pointing outward at the bottom.
What is a mansard roof home? (Candy Prize!)
This was a ball game played in the outports similar to baseball.
What is Rounders?
Who delivered the babies in many rural communities in Newfoundland and Labrador?
What are midwives? (Candy Prize!)
How did Signal Hill get its name?
It was where flags signaled the arrival of ships at St. John’s Harbour, so that the merchants could prepare for docking and unloading without delay. (Candy Prize!)
What popular spring activity among young boys helped them get ready for the seal hunt?
What is copying ice pans?
What is a small underground structure built below the frost line used to preserve vegetables in the outports during the winter?
What are root cellars? (Candy Prize!)
A certain annual celebration within communities that involved celebrating with bonfires.
What is Guy Fawkes Night - November 5th
What was the name for small hospitals set up in rural parts of Newfoundland and Labrador? Usually they were operated by a nurse.
What is a nursing station? (Candy Prize!)
In the 1870’s this type of transportation was essential to providing a link for outports to the outside world.
Coastal steamships
Popular Christmas activity which usually starts on St. Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) and people dress in outlandish costumes.
What is mummering?
Foods like flour, molasses, tea, beans, and salt beef were used by most all Newfoundland families to make meals. What were they also known as?
What are staple foods? (Candy Prize!)
What is the oldest organized sporting event in North America? It is celebrated in St. John’s on the first Wednesday in August. That is if it is not too windy?
What is The Regatta (Candy Prize!)
Who was the founder of the first school of nursing in Newfoundland?
Who is Mary Southcott?
In 1898 how did transportation in Newfoundland improve? (Connecting St. Johns to PAB)
What is the Railway? (Candy Prize!)
Who recieved the first wireless message from Cornwall, England?
Who is Marconi? (Candy Prize!)