There were six in the crew, but only one man survived when the tern schooner Russell Lake was smashed to pieces while entering Burgeo harbour in a blinding snowstorm on March 17, 1929 nearly 94 years ago.
The fate of nearly three dozen church-linked schools in Newfoundland and Labrador is the subject of some legal wrangling as lawyers debate how to compensate abuse victims, and it could cause some serious disruption in the education system.
When the right side of Rodney Doyle's body went numb on Aug. 26, he knew he was having a stroke. His wife called to have an ambulance sent to their home in St. Lawrence, on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula, but there wasn't one available and the nearest emergency room was closed.
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Roman Catholics in the St. Lawrence area of the Burin Peninsula were already feeling stressed over the fate of their churches. Now they face a new reality: losing their priest, with little hope of a replacement.