1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
Exactly one hundred years ago,132 Newfoundland sealers were caught in a horrific ice storm and blizzard, miles from the ship which brought them to the floes. More than half of them froze to death. The tragedy of the SS Newfoundland, has been seared into the common memory and imagination of the province....
Exactly one hundred years ago,132 Newfoundland sealers were caught in a horrific ice storm and blizzard, miles from the ship which brought them to the floes.
More than half of them froze to death.
The tragedy of the SS Newfoundland, has been seared into the common memory and imagination of the province.
Michael Enright talks to Jenny Higgins, the author of Perished, The 1914 Sealing Disaster and novelist and poet Michael Crummey, who has written the narration for 54 hours, an animated National Film Board film which premieres on March 30 at The Rooms in St. John's, Nfld.