Downton: Why Newfoundlanders aren't thrilled at Canada 150
HALIFAX – My parents left their home in St. John’s in 1948 to come to Halifax, my father to Dalhousie’s dental school and my mother to the brand new Victoria General hospital, to work as an RN. Because they were entering a foreign country, they carried their chest X-rays rolled up under their arms as evidence they were free of tuberculosis.
That was the tradition then. But new traditions came to Newfoundland along with Canada, and, after the initial enticements to join up
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