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St. Augustine's School |
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Image size: 17" x 23.5" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $225.00 |
| St. Augustine's School, located on Waterford Bridge Road in St. John's had it's official opening and dedication services on Feb1, 1944. After it's many years of service it closed its doors in June 2000. |
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Mending Nets |
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Image size: 10.5" x 20.5" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $215.00 |
| Part of the preparatory work for the fishing season was the repairs to equipment. Mending nets was just one of these chores. Whether carried out alone or in the company of other fishermen, this was often a leisurely time of contemplation and remembrance. |
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Benovolent Irish Society |
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Image size: 14" x 22" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $225.00 |
| The BIS was one of Newfoundland's first charitable organizations. The association was non sectarian and the only qualifications for membership involved having close family ties to Ireland. The building is located on Queen's Road on the side of a hill overlooking St. John's. The society became a powerful force for positive change by establishing, among other things, an orphan asylum, sponsoring the establishment in St. John's of the Irish Christian Brothers & housing one of the first North American theatre to show the new silent films. With the arrival of the Knights of Columbus, however the influence of the BIS began to wane and in 1998 it was sold to private developers. The society itself moved into smaller premises. |
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Up For The Season |
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Image size: 10" x 22" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $215.00 |
| This is a typical scene in outport Newfoundland after the fishing season has drawn to a close. The boats are hauled up for a well deserved rest. Repairs are made to the boats and equipment during the fall & winter seasons. With a renewed energy in spring, the sights and sounds of the boats could be heard as they, once again, headed out to the fishing grounds. |
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Kimberly Row |
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Image size: 16" x 22" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $245.00 |
| Kimberly Row, as the street is named, contains a strip of three houses built on a hill in the centre of North America's oldest city, St. John's, Nfld & Labrador. The city is well known for its colorful houses and hilly landscape. These three old houses are a reminder of our past as they stand clining together on the edge of the world, weathering all the storms of life and climate. |
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Where Once They Stood |
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Image size: 18" x 23.5" Unframed Price: $120.00 Framed Price: $255.00 |
| The sheds, the wood piles and the catamaran are all typical sights of life around the bays and coves of Newfoundland. One of the necessities of life in our harsh climate involved the gathering of wood as fuel to heat our homes. In winter, the wood was cut down and carried home on a horse drawn sleigh, called a catamaran. The logs were cut and stored in nest piles for future use. |
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St Bartholomew's Church, Mt. Arlington Heights |
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Image size: 11" x 17" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $250.00 |
| St. Bartholomew's Church in Mt. Arlington Hgts. was one of the mission churches of Fr. Francis Cacciola. It was Father Cacciola that changed the name of the community of Sibley's Cove to Mt. Arlington Hgts. This church was originally built around 1929 and was one of the nine mission churches in Placentia Bay that formed the Parish of Bar Haven. The church has been abandoned for years but in 1979 parishioners from Mount Arlington Hgts. did some major renovations and had the church registered as a Museum. My grandfather, Patrick Norman, worked on the original construction of this building. |
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St. Jeromes School, Long Hr. P. Bay |
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Image size: 14" x 15" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $250.00 |
| I can still remember my first day of school, at St. Jeromes School, my eyes full of tears with excitement and fear. I have so many happy memories of friends and events,games,and school work, stories told and retold. On cold mornings we had to bring wood to school to feed the pot belly stove so we could warm up our frozen toes and dry our wet mittens.I have memories of evenings spent with a scrubbing brush and warm water helping to scrub clean a section of the wooden floor. The best time of all was the last day of school each year when we all got on the bus for our annual trip to a picnic site. We'd return in the evening, tired and sunburned but glowing with the knowledge that we has two and a half months of freedom ahead before the start of school again in September. |
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Cabot Tower, St. John's NL |
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Image size: 13" x 17" Unframed Price: $140.00 Framed Price: $375.00 |
| Cabot Tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of NL., and Queen Victoria's Dimond Jubilee. In 1901, Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message there, in Morse code, sent from Cornwall, England.
I've always been intrigued by this historic site. The fog, the shapes of the cliffs and the colors of the tiny houses nestled in the rocks, all worked together to inspire me to paint my rendition of this special place. |
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Downtown Delight |
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Image size: 16" x 19" Unframed Price: $140.00 Framed Price: $265.00 |
| This is a Giclee print of the Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, in St. John's NL. This, the oldest Anglican parish in Canada, established in 1699. The first stone church was begun in 1843. The present cathedral was started in 1847 and restorations were made beginning in 1893, after it was damaged by the fire of 1892. The Anglican Cathedral is located in the heart of historic downtown St. John's. It is situated near such streets as Church Hill, Cathedral Street, Gower Street and Duckworth St. |
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Long Harbour, Placentia Bay, NL |
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Image size: 9" x 25" or 7" x 21" Unframed Price: $100.00 Framed Price: $375.00 |
| This is a Giclee print of Long Harbour, Placentia Bay. I was inspired to paint this picture after my brother gave me a photo taken one winter day when the harbour was frozen. This is my childhood home and I am flooded with memories as I see the homes of relatives and friends and the snow covered road, the old school… the fish plant, where we played after hours, the hill we went sliding on in winter are also present. It's sad to know I can only travel back there now, to that time, in my mind. It feels good to think that others are inspired to relive their past memories of home when they view this painting. |
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Cabot Tower, St. John's, NL |
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Image size: 14" x 16" Unframed Price: $140.00 Framed Price: $275.00 |
| Cabot Tower was built in 1897 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of John Cabot's discovery of NL., and Queen Victoria's Dimond Jubilee. In 1901, Marconi received the first trans-Atlantic wireless message there, in Morse code, sent from Cornwall, England. This majestic site looms over the city of St. John's, NL. It can be viewed from all corners of the city, for miles. The winding road, the unique shape of the tower itself, the landscape textures, the fog and the colors of the rocks and houses all helped to inspire my vision for the creation of this painting. |
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