Mary Smyth & Fred Hollingshurst

Authors Mary Smyth and Fred Hollingshurst are longtime hikers with decades of experience with the terrain, challenges, and spectacular rewards


Michael Friis Johansen

Michael Friis Johansen is a journalist, author, and commentator on northern issues who lives in Goose Bay, Labrador.


Katie Broadhurst and Alexandra Fortin

Katie Broadhurst and Alexandra Fortin are tour guides in western Newfoundland. In this guide to the region’s greatest hikes, they


Martha Hickman Hild

Martha Hickman Hild is geologist and received her PhD in Earth Sciences from the University of Leeds, and is a

Matthew Hollett

Matthew Hollett

Matthew Hollett is an award-winning writer and visual artist in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador. Album Rock is his first book.  Matthew


Martha Hickman Hild & Sandra Barr

Sandra Barr is a faculty member in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at Acadia University in Wolfville. Widely


Peter J. Scott

Peter J. Scott is former curator of the Agnes Marion Ayre Herbarium and a retired professor in the department of


Ian Warkentin & Sandy Newton

Ian Warkentin is an Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Memorial University in Corner Brook. Sandy Newton is a writer


Wayne Ledwell

Wayne Ledwell is a marine biologist and heads the Whale Release and Strandings Group in Newfoundland and Labrador.


Tara Stevens

Tara Stevens has devoted her career to studying whales and dolphins, with research projects taking her from Labrador, the West

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Todd Boland

Todd Boland has been gardening for over 40 years. Todd is currently the research horticulturalist at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Botanical

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Christine LeGrow & Shirley A. Scott

Christine LeGrow was born and raised in St. John’s, Newfoundland. After a long career in retail she began Spindrift Handknits,

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