’In everybody’s family, some really weird and emotional stuff goes on’
Lynn Johnston turned everyday life into a blockbuster comic strip
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‘Everybody else was a sea of white’
Brad Barton, a life-long educator, on segregation in Nova Scotia
‘I could see the disruption we were causing’
Ron Parkes was one of the few Canadians who fought in Vietnam
‘It was amazing how smooth it went’
Des Dillon on how Newfoundlanders pitched in on 9/11
‘Early September, it’s almost like hell’
Theodore Fontaine on life after residential school
’If Bob Dylan could write songs, we could write songs.’
Sylvia Tyson moved to New York with a plywood guitar
’You inhale the world around you’
Vera Frenkel creates timeless multimedia installations
‘I watched Confederation come in’
Robert Green on how Newfoundland changed after 1949
‘I won’t stop now’
Viola Robinson, a Mi’kmaq activist, became a lawyer at 62
’I got my first regular cheque at the age of 64’
Landon Pearson became the senator for children