Newfoundland Boy
Newfoundland Boy is about the Canadian province of Newfoundland. There's a new episode every Saturday, available (with transcripts) wherever you get podcasts. Logo art: Untitled painting by Wayne Jones ››› Music: "Spirit Blossom" by RomanBelov, via Pixabay ››› © 2025 by Wayne Jones
Episodes
SHOW NOTES
On a trip to visit my mother’s home town, I noticed changes in the communities along the way, including in their mother-in-law doors
Sources
◘ Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 2nd edition with supplement, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin, and J.D.A. Widdowson, Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, 2025, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/dictionary/ ◘
◘ The Flanker Dictionary of Newfoundland English, edited by Garry Cranford, F...
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SHOW NOTES
The overall situation of health services in Newfoundland: facts and personal experience
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Sources
||||| Statistics Canada, The Daily, “Government Spending by Function, 2023,” 2024, https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/241127/dq241127a-eng.htm ||||| ___
||||| Statistics Canada, Primary Health Care P...
Wayne visits Topsail Beach
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Sources
¦ “Bell Island (Newfoundland and Labrador),” Wikipedia, July 27, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Island_(Newfoundland_and_Labrador) ¦
¦ “Little Bell Island Formation,” Wikipedia, June 24, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bell_Island_Formation ¦
¦ NTV, “Webcam - St. Philip’s – Bell Island,” September 6, 2025, https://ntvplus.ca/pages/webcam-stphilips-bellisland ¦
¦ William...
Wayne talks about the solitude that both he and his home province experience, and what it tells you about both of them (us) —
SOURCES
¦ “Corner Brook,” Wikipedia, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corner_Brook ¦
¦ “St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador,” Wikipedia, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s,_Newfoundland_and_Labrador ¦
¦ Statistics Canada, 1971 Census of Canada: Population, 1973, https://publicatio...
Alicia and I talk about quirky names, names with interesting origins, and names that are not pronounced like they're spelled
SOURCES
“Browse Images by Location,” Heritage Newfoundland & Labrador, 2025, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/image-browser/location
Ainsley Hawthorn, “From Dildo to Witless Bay: Where Did N.L. Get Its Unusual Place Names?,” Academia.edu, 2019, https://www.academia.edu/40234482/From_Dildo_to_Witless_Bay_Where...
Food, the ocean, puffins, and more food
A mixed experience of good and bad on a lovely day at Cape Spear
Traditional Newfoundland cod and seafood preparations.
Thanks to my friends Gwen and Chris for their help with the cod section.
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Sources
¦ “Seal Meat,” Wikipedia, last edited February 21, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_meat ¦
¦ “Flipper Pie,” Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, 3rd edition, https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/flipper%20pie¦
¦ “Capelin,” Wikipedia, last edited May 23, 2025, https://en.wik...
A commentary on foods both traditional and new in Newfoundland
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Sources
¦ Newfoundland Boy, hosted by Wayne Jones, episode 22, "Newfoundlanders and Bologna: A Love Story," September 3, 2024, https://newfoundlandboy.buzzsprout.com/2358060/episodes/15686708-newfoundlanders-and-bologna-a-love-story ¦
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The state of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English and other books about and including Newfie words
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Sources
■ “About the OED,” Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 2025, https://www.oed.com/information/about-the-oed |
■ Sandra Clarke, Newfoundland and Labrador English, Edinburgh University Press, 2018 |
■ Dictionary of Newfoundland English, 2nd edition with Supplement, edited by G.M. Story, W.J. Kirwin and J.D.A...
SHOW NOTES
I unknowingly happen to rent an Airbnb place in the heart of Pentecostal Newfoundland.
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Sources
››› “Bible Belt,” Wikipedia, June 11, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Belt ››› |
››› Drew Brown, “Newfoundland Needs to Chill the Fuck Out,” Vice, May 16, 2018, https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/society/salvation-army.php ››› |
››› Patrick Butler, “The Hidden Abortions of Newfoundland’s ‘Bible Belt,’” CBC News, Oct...
A friend and I discover the military past and the industrial past on Placentia Bay |
Sources
› “Argentia,” Wikipedia, updated September 3, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentia. |
› Boskalis, “Equipment Sheet: Triumph: Semi-Submersible Heavy Transport Vessel,” Boskalis.com, https://boskalis.com/media/3p4noap4/triumph.pdf (viewed June 24, 2025). |
› Dale Jarvis, Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador, Flanker Press, 2022. |
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I return after a seven-month hiatus to weekly podcast episodes every Saturday.
Subscribe wherever you get podcasts or list here: https://newfoundlandboy.buzzsprout.com/
Wayne says a brief goodbye in this final episode of the podcast ▬
Source
→ Wayne Jones’s website, WayneJones.ca ||
Wayne talks about the subjectivity of film and the common habit of not distinguishing the world of the of the movie from the real world
> Wayne's movie list:
https://www.waynejones.ca/movies/movies/
Wayne talks about the one-year anniversary of his move from Ottawa to St. John’s ▬
Wayne reads three of his works of short fiction ▬
Source
→ Wayne Jones, "Short Fiction," https://www.waynejones.ca/writing/short-fiction/ || ▬
Wayne Jones talks to St. John's artist Emilee Hickey about her painting ▬
LINKS
Wicked Winds Art Studio (Instagram), https://www.instagram.com/wickedwindsartstudio ▬
Wicked Winds Art Studio (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/people/Wicked-Winds-Art-Studio/61550806900534/?mibextid=LQQJ4d ▬
PAINTING
From the Heart, painting by Emilee Hickey, https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2Tjx7rQTZPLzrnd6 ▬
Seniors still hope for love after the experience of never having had it or of losing it ▬
Sources
→ Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited David Womersley. London: Penguin Random House, 2008. ||
→ Jones, Wayne. My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers. William & Park, 2023. || ▬
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