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Games

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Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Signal Hill St Johns History

Signal Hill is a National Historic Site of Canada overlooking the entrance to St. John's harbour and is arguably the most historically significant landmark in Newfoundland. The hill — a dramatic rocky promontory rising to 168 metres above sea level — has served as a strategic military lookout and signalling station for centuries, alerting the city to approaching ships by hoisting signal flags iden

Signal Hill is a National Historic Site of Canada overlooking the entrance to St. John's harbour and is arguably the most historically significant landmark in Newfoundland. The hill — a dramatic rocky promontory rising to 168 metres above sea level — has served as a strategic military lookout and signalling station for centuries, alerting the city to approaching ships by hoisting signal flags identifying arriving vessels. The site was of intense military importance during the American Revolutionary War, the Napoleonic Wars, and both World Wars, with a complex of earthworks, gun batteries, and fortifications constructed across successive conflicts. The most famous event in Signal Hill's history occurred on December 12, 1901, when Guglielmo Marconi received the first transatlantic wireless telegraph signal at the site. Standing at the top of Signal Hill in a temporary wireless station, Marconi detected three dots — the Morse code letter 'S' — transmitted from Poldhu, Cornwall, England, over 3,400 kilometres away. This demonstration that radio waves could follow the curvature of the earth transformed global communications. The Signal Hill National Historic Site includes interpretive exhibits about the hill's military and communications history, and in summer the Newfoundland Regiment performs the Signal Hill Tattoo, a military historical pageant. The walking trails on Signal Hill — including the North Head Trail along the cliff tops — offer some of the most spectacular ocean and harbour views in Atlantic Canada.

Fact

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road