In the summer of 1980 three generations of the Barry family returned to get away from it all. A "beautiful, wonderful life" — that's how Jim Barry describes his family's summers on Merasheen Island.

It is not often that a piece of high statecraft evokes memories of the now deserted, or near-deserted, island of Merasheen, of Placentia Bay, Newfoundland. In fact, to be plain, it never happens.

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When seven-year-old Cecily Guiney resettled from Merasheen Island in 1967, his community was already dwindling. Resettlement had moved most families off the island by then, and the Guiney family was ...

Carl Pitcher knows about resettlement. Now retired in Whitbourne, after a 40-year-long career in IT, Pitcher says ...

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OTTAWA, ON, Aug. 4, 2020 /CNW/ - Northern Shield Resources Inc. ("Northern Shield" or the "Company") (TSX-V:NRN.VN) is pleased to announce that it has acquired two licences through online-staking and, ...