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100 years of radio: Meet the people keeping VOWR on the air
The home of Newfoundland's first radio broadcast is still airing services and tunes a century later. Some of VOWR's volunteers and listeners recall what makes the station so special.
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Talk about chilling out: How Signal Hill and the ocean keep these swimmers active in winter
The CBC's Land and Sea spends time with fearless swimmers who look forward to the colder months.
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Evidence from a disaster: Inside an Ottawa museum that holds Ocean Ranger artifacts
On storage shelves sit pieces of the past from a tragic event in Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil industry. The Ocean Ranger, a rig drilling for oil off eastern Newfoudland, sank on Feb. 15, 1982.
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The Gathering: Land and Sea spends a week on the land in Gull Island
The third week of September in Gull Island is a time when the Innu communities of Labrador get back to nature and live off the land at an event known as the Manishan Nui gathering.
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A fabulously folksy festival: Land and Sea celebrates mummers' heritage
The tradition of mummering has all but died out in many parts of Newfoundland and Labrador, but an annual festival is reinvigorating that part of the local heritage.
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Seeking salmon, finding serenity: Land and Sea joins these women on the river
Salmon angling may have been a male-dominated sport, but things have changed. Join the CBC's Jane Adey as Land and Sea heads to the rivers of western Newfoundland, where women too are enjoying the peace of mind of casting a line.
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A festival of quilts: Meet the colourful crafters who keep a tradition alive
Join Land and Sea's Jane Adey at a festival in Newfoundland's Conception Bay, where quilting is about much more than comfort.
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Back from the brink: Caribou are thriving once more on the Grey Islands
In 2019 Newfoundland and Labrador's wildlife division undertook a project to populate both the upper and lower Grey Islands with caribou. They took 13 caribou from a healthy herd on Fischot Islands in Hare Bay and put them on the Grey Islands. Since then the population has doubled.
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The daring dorymen: Land and Sea digs into the rich history of the Grand Banks schooners
Maurice Kearley, 96, is among the last of the men who worked the Grand Banks in dories near great wooden schooners. See a full episode from Land and Sea, with host Jane Adey.
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There will be fewer icebergs in the future. Tourists are treasuring them while they can
Jane Adey and the Land and Sea crew head to Twillingate, where businesses depend on icebergs and the tourists who flock to see them. But there are fewer icebergs than before, and that trend is not likely to change.
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