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The Telegram is a weekly newspaper in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, published by Postmedia Network. First published in 1879, it was the first and longest-running daily in Newfoundland. In August 2024, following its sale to Postmedia, the paper ceased daily publication and began to only publish print editions on Fridays.
John Joseph Murphy (September 24, 1922 [1] – December 15, 2010 [2]) was a Canadian businessman and politician who was the 11th mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland. [ 3 ] Biography
He was elected to St. John's City Council in 1961. Carter was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly in 1962 and was deputy mayor of St. John's from 1966 to 1968. [ 2 ] He was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of St. John's West in the 1968 federal election .
Between 1998 and 2000, she served as a resident physician at teaching hospitals across Newfoundland. During a 1999 residency at a family practice in St. John's, Turner's professionalism drew harsh criticism by her supervising physician, who stated she would become "quite hostile, yelling, crying, and accusing me of treating her unfairly ...
He represented Ferryland in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1971 to 1975 as a Progressive Conservative. [2] [3] The son of Gerald S. Doyle and Marjorie Mershon, [3] he was born in St. John's and was educated at Saint Bonaventure's College and St. Michael's College, going on to study business marketing in Great Britain. Doyle joined the ...
The St. John's City Hall, on New Gower Street, has housed municipal offices and Council Chambers since being officially opened in 1970. [138] [175] St. John's served as the capital city of the Colony of Newfoundland and the Dominion of Newfoundland before Newfoundland became Canada's tenth province in 1949. [176]
Dorothy Mary Wyatt (née Fanning; [1] 1925–2001) was a Canadian politician, who was mayor of St. John's, Newfoundland from 1973 to 1981 [2] and the city's first female mayor. [ 3 ] Biography
Stirling was president of the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Party in the late 1970s and played a pivotal role in persuading Donald Jamieson to lead the party in the 1979 provincial election. The party's sitting leader, Bill Rowe , had been criticized by a majority of caucus members, and the party had scheduled a leadership review before the ...