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  • Information about the structures and environments that were built by the people of Newfoundland.
  • As a direct result of the Earnest Harmon Air Force Base, there are environmental concerns associated with Stephenville and surrounding areas.
  • The story of Ethel Gertrude Dickenson (1880-1918) who contacted and died from the Spanish flu while assisting others infected with the deadly virus.
  • Biography of Ethel Gertrude Dickinson (1880-1918).
  • About health conditions in Newfoundland during WWII such as problems with housing and veneral disease and the need for wartime hospitals.
  • People were first drawn to Stephenville because of the excellent fishing grounds and fertile soils.
  • About the LSPU Hall, a Registered Heritage Structure located on 3 Victoria Street in St. John's and initially built in the late eighteenth century.
  • Pine Tree Radar Site is one of three warning systems selected when NORAD decided to build a number of Aircraft Control and Warning Stations.
  • The Spanish flu did not originate in Newfoundland and Labrador, but the country's ports, and global trade relations made it vulnerable to the disease.
  • About the Spanish influenza pandemic that reached Newfoundland and Labrador in 1918 and killed more than 600 people in less than five months.
  • The negative environmental influences of the American Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland.
  • Since 1979, the Stephenville Theatre Festival has produced professional plays of the highest quality here in Newfoundland and Labrador.