Week of June 22 – Folklore – Dale Jarvis (Guest Editor) (A List of Additional Themes and Our Confirmed Guest Editors Can Be at the Bottom of This Document.)

Week of June 22 – Folklore – Dale Jarvis (guest editor) (A list of additional themes and our confirmed guest editors can be at the bottom of this document.)

Dale Jarvis is an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Folklore, Memorial University, and the Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer for Newfoundland and Labrador, helping communities to safeguard traditional culture. Dale has been working for Heritage NL since 1996, and holds a BSc in Anthropology/Archaeology from Trent University, and a MA in Folklore from Memorial University. He has served on the UNESCO Consultative Body to the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and regularly teaches workshops on oral history, cultural documentation, and public folklore.

Please note: The potential subjects below are meant as SUGGESTIONS ONLY and not intended to be a comprehensive list. If you have a particular topic that you would like to create an entry for that is NOT included here, PLEASE feel free to pursue that topic.

1 Wikipedia Needs Assessment – Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore

Existing Articles to Improve:

Candlemas (needs expansion for NL content) Cressie (needs expansion and citations) Fairy (needs expansion for NL content) Fish and Brewis (needs expansion and citations) Guy Fawkes Night (needs expansion/citations for NL content/Bonfire Night/Torch Night) Jigg’s Dinner (needs reworking and citations) Lutin (needs expansion/citations for NL content) Mummers Parade (add more on Festival?) Newfoundland Screech (needs citations) Otto Tucker (needs expansion, bibliography and citations) Peter Easton (needs citations) Root Cellar (needs expansion for NL content) Rug Hooking (needs editing, citations) Sheelah’s Day (include Sheila’s Brush?) Sleep Paralysis (to include Old Hag) Tibb's Eve (needs expansion and citations) Touton (add citations) Ugly Stick (needs citations) Will-o’-the-Wisp (needs expansion/citations for NL content/Jacky Lantern) Wren Day (needs expansion for NL content)

New articles to Create: Barking/Bark Pot Barrelman Radio Program Birch Broom Craft Council of NL

2 Father Duffy’s Well Jellybean Row Nalujuk Night Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival Old Smoker Legend St. John’s Folk Arts Council St. John’s Storytelling Festival Sugarloaf Hill Tiddly Trigger Mitts Wessex Society of Newfoundland

Online Resources on Newfoundland and Labrador Folklore “Folklore” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 2, pp. 243-271 Folklore and Traditional Culture – Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador website Dictionary of Newfoundland English Intangible Cultural Heritage Pam Hall’s Towards an Encyclopedia of Local Knowledge Memorial University of Newfoundland Folklore and Language Archive Digital Archives Initiative (Memorial University) Archival Moments (The Rooms Archives) Culture & Tradition (The Canadian Graduate Student Journal of Folklore) Folklore Theses (Memorial University) Collection Guides – Newfoundland and Labrador Public Libraries See suggested titles in “Folklore of Newfoundland and Labrador” 2003 Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles:

Devine, P. K. Devine's Folk Lore of Newfoundland in Old Words, Phrases and Expressions, Their Origin and Meaning. St. John's, Nfld.: Memorial U of Newfoundland, Folklore and Language Publications, 1997.

Halpert, Herbert, and G. M. Story. Christmas Mumming in Newfoundland; Essays in Anthropology, Folklore, and History. Toronto]: Published for Memorial University of Newfoundland by University of Toronto, 1969. Halpert, Herbert. Ireland, Sheila and Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld.: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1977.

Hiscock, P. (2002). A Perfect Princess: The Twentieth-Century Legend of Sheila na Geira and Gilbert Pike. Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, 18(2). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/880 Jarvis, Dale Gilbert. Any Mummer's 'llowed In? : Christmas Mummering Traditions in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's : Flanker Press Limited, 2014. Narváez, Peter. The Good People : New Fairylore Essays. New York: Garland Pub., 1991. Rieti, Barbara. Strange Terrain : The Fairy World in Newfoundland. St. John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1991. Thomas, Gerald, and J. D. A. Widdowson. Studies in Newfoundland Folklore : Community and Process. St. John's, Nfld.: Breakwater, 1991

Compiled June 18, 2020 Centre for Newfoundland Studies [email protected]

4 Week of June 29 – Music/Musicians – Sandy Morris (guest editor) – confirmed

Week of July 6 – theme and guest editor to be determined

Week of July 13 – NL theatre and film – Ruth Lawrence (guest editor) – confirmed

Week of July 20- NL Flora and fauna – Todd Boland (guest editor) – confirmed

Week of July 27 – Labrador – Morgon Mills (guest editor) - confirmed

Other themes and guest editors will be added as they are confirmed.

Completed: Wikipedia Needs Assessment – Women (as of June 15, 2020) Guest Editor Jenny Higgins

Existing Articles to Improve: Georgina Stirling (needs citations) Jenny Gear (needs citations) Susan Kent (actress) (needs expansion) Krystin Pellerin (needs expansion) Mary Southcott (needs expansion, can add photo from Wikimedia Commons) Hazel McIsaac (needs expansion) Ethel Dickenson (needs expansion)

5 Vera Perlin (needs expansion) Margaret Duley (needs citations) Louise Saunders (needs expansion) Helena Squires (needs expansion) Lydia Campbell (needs expansion) Cassie Brown (needs expansion) Dora Oake Russell (needs expansion) Margaret Davidson (needs expansion) Anita Best (needs expansion) Pamela Morgan (needs expansion) Doris Saunders (needs citations/references, and can be expanded) Sarah Leo (this is a stub article that needs to be expanded and updated) Kay Burns (needs citations/references, and can be expanded) Women's Patriotic Association (needs citations) Bushra Junaid (needs expansion) - NOTE: update to include her latest exhibition at the Rooms, called "What Carries Us: Newfoundland and Labrador in the Black Atlantic" - an article about the exhibition: http://visualartsnews.ca/2020/06/listening-to-silence/

Articles to Create: Marjorie Doyle Grace Butt Agnes Miller Ayre Adeline Browning Anna (Barnes) Mitchell Myra Campbell Barbara Doran Noreen Golfman Phoebe Florence Miller Violet Cherrington Connie Hynes Louise Belbin

6 Anna Templeton Elizabeth (Tshaukuesh) Penashue Berni Stapleton TA Loeffler Ann Hulan Jessie Ohman Ruth Lawrence Anne Troake Water Lily (newsletter) Ladies Reading Room (St. John’s, Newfoundland) Newfoundland Women’s Franchise League Newfoundland Outport Nursing and Industrial Association (NONIA)

Online Resources on Newfoundland and Labrador Women “Women’s Movement” in Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador Volume 5, pp. 607-611 http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/cns_enl/id/2500

Women’s Suffrage (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website) https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/women-suffrage.php

Women in Politics (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website) https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/women-politics.php Women’s History Walking Tour (Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador Website) https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/womens-tour-table- contents.php

Coastal Women (Maritime History Archive) https://www.mun.ca/mha/cw/home.html

Also consult Online Resources with Newfoundland and Labrador Content.

7 https://www.mun.ca/publicengagement/engagememorial/OnlineResourcesWikiP rojectFINAL.pdf

Recommended readings and potential citations for articles: Browne, Susan Chalker. Mother of the Regiment : And Other Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John’s: Flanker Press, 2019. Cullum, Linda K., Carmelita. McGrath, and Marilyn Porter. Weather's Edge : A Compendium. St. John's, N.L.: Killick, 2006. Duley, Margot I. Where Once Our Mothers Stood We Stand : Women's Suffrage in Newfoundland, 1890-1925. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Gynergy, 1993. The Finest Kind : Voices of Newfoundland and Labrador Women. St. John's, Nfld.: Creative, 1992. Higgins, Jenny. Agnes Ayre's ABCs of Amazing Women : Newfoundland & Labrador Women of Note (some of Whom Won Us the Vote). Portugal Cove-St. Philip's, Newfoundland and Labrador: Boulder Books, 2019. McGrath, Carmelita., Barbara Neis, and Marilyn Porter. Their Lives and times : Women in Newfoundland and Labrador : A Collage. St. John's, Nfld.: Killick, 1995. Morgan, Bonnie. Ordinary Saints : Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland. Montreal ; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. Porter, Marilyn, and Linda K. Cullum. Creating This Place : Women, Family, and Class in St. John's, 1900-1950. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014. Pumphrey, Marilyn. Who's Who and Why : Newfoundland Women 1991. St. John's, Newfoundland: Marilyn Pumphrey, 1990. Pursuing Equality : Historical Perspectives on Women in Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's, Nfld.: Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University, 1993.

8 A sisterhood of suffering and service : women and girls of Canada and Newfoundland during the First World War. Vancouver, B.C.: UBC Press. 2012. St. John's Local Council of Women. Remarkable Women of Newfoundland and Labrador. St. John's, Nfld.]: Valhalla Canada, 1976. White, Marian Frances. Woman's Almanac.

Compiled June 7, 2020 Centre for Newfoundland Studies [email protected]