Heritage
Marguerite de la Rocque
(1515-1560s)Marguerite de la Rocque was born in France sometime in the early 1500s, into a...
Elizabeth Penashue
(1944-present)Tshaukuesh “Elizabeth” Penashue was born on May 15, 1944, near Meshikamau Lake in Nitassinan, the...
Josephina Kalleo
(1920-1993)Josephina Kalleo was born in 1920 in Nain, Labrador, on the north coast of what...
Mary Pratt
(1935-2018)Mary Frances Pratt was born on March 15, 1935, in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Though born...
Mary Ellen “Ella” Morris
(1857-1936)Mary Ellen “Ella” Morris was born in 1857, the daughter of Eliza Meehan and Patrick...
Phebe “Florence” Miller
(1889-1979)Phebe Florence Miller, known as Florence Miller, was born in Topsail, Conception Bay, on July...
Lydia Campbell
(1818–1905)Lydia Campbell, often remembered as “Aunt Lydia,” was the first person from Nunatsiavut to be...
Jean Crane
(1929-2025)Inuit Artist, Educator, and Advocate
Minnie White
(1922–2002)Newfoundland’s First Lady of the Accordion
Doris Saunders
(1941-2006)Born in Cartwright, Labrador, Doris Jean (Martin) Saunders grew up surrounded by stories of Inuit,...
Anna Templeton
(1916-1995)Anna Templeton was born in St. John’s in 1916, the second eldest in the family...
Joan Morrissey
(1933–1978)Newfoundland’s First Lady of Song