Posts by Andrew McCarthy

We arrived about 10 minutes late for a board meeting in Vancouver, causing my business partner to apologize, explaining; “You’ve got no idea what its like walking with a Newfoundlander on Robson Street. I’ve lived in this city for over 50 years and I don’t recognize a single person – this guy just moved here…

The first thing you need to remember when you visit Newfoundland is, ignore the forecast. Just make your plans and carry through with them regardless of what the weather man says. Newfoundland is often described as the nose of North America, jutting so far into the mid-Atlantic you might rightly suggest that it’s “stuck in the…

If you think politics and religion are subjects that should never be discussed in public – you might want to throw “rum in the mix” when you’re visiting Newfoundland. Newfoundlanders take their rum very seriously, even forgoing the best kind of a soiree just because the host didn’t offer their favorite brand at the bar.…

What a “goings on” we’re after having at my parent’s place in Topsail this year. I’m not certain how closely you’ve been watching our weather in Newfoundland, but 2018 has been brilliant thus far. You know, if you really, like weather! We saw a fair bit of frost in the late fall, and a mid…

On December 12, 1901, Guglielmo Marconi received the first, transatlantic, wireless message at Signal Hill in St. John’s, Newfoundland. It was an extraordinary accomplishment, one that ensured Newfoundland’s role in global communications would be heralded for many generations. But like everything associated with this island and its people, it’s the many periphery elements that make this…