Newfoundland and St. John’s: Names and Dates

Newfoundland Boy

05/17/24 • 7 min

Is St. John’s the oldest city in North America? ▬

Sources ▬

○ Joan Rusted. St. John’s: A Brief History. Breakwater Books, 2011

○ Newfoundland and Labrador Tourism, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada, https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/

○ “List of Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities,” Wikipedia, May 15, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities

05/17/24 • 7 min

Newfoundland Boy - Newfoundland and St. John’s: Names and Dates

Transcript

Hi, I’m Wayne Jones. Welcome to Newfoundland Boy, part memoir, part anecdotes, and all about the Canadian province of Newfoundland. This is episode 6: “Newfoundland and St. John’s: Names and Dates.”

If you live in Newfoundland, you likely don’t have to be reminded that the capital city is St. John’s. That’s where I’ve been living since I moved here from Ottawa (the capital of Canada) about six and a half months ago. If you live in some other province of

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