Newfoundland Heritage Web Site

Nightingale of the North

An account of the life of Georgina Ann Stirling (1866-1935), Newfoundland's first professional opera singer.
Johnny Burke (1851-1930)

Biography of entertainer Johnny Burke
Disasters 1892-1929

Some of Newfoundland and Labrador's best-known and most destructive disasters occurred during the era of Responsible Government.
Original Inventory list of Government House

An inventory list made of the first Government House in St. John's on October 1809.
The 1846 Great Fire

About the Great Fire that started on 9 June 1846 in St. John's when a fire broke out in a cabinetmaker's workshop on George Street.
The St. John's Fire of 1892

About the St. John's fire that started on 8 July 1892 in a stable after a lit pipe or match fell into a bundle of hay.
Recollections of the Tsunami

A Mount Pearl Junior High School project about the Newfoundland and Labrador tsunami
Rebuilding St. John's: Reconstruction after the 1892 Fire

Information about the St. John's 1892 fire with emphasis on the reconstruction of the city after the disaster.