"Memorial University College (MUC) officially opened on 15 September 1925, and began to offer the first two years of university training in the arts and sciences." Reinvigorating the drive to establish a college, organisers cited "the perceived need to have an appropriate memorial to the Newfoundlanders who had served or died during World War One." After Confederation, "the idea [of a full university] was endorsed by the National Convention (1946-1948), and implemented by the first provincial government in 1949." Today the Queen Elizabeth II Library on the St. John's campus houses the Centre for Newfoundland Studies — the literary research heart of the university. source
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Scenes set here
The Sign on My Father's HouseTom Moore
“Felix Ryan, from Curlew, Conception Bay, has been in love with the enigmatic Ellen Monteau ever since the day he met her in school at Smallwood High. … Felix's father erects an …”
Hard Ticket: New Writing Made in NewfoundlandLisa Moore
“Then he seized the infrastructure, with a new megahighway interchange to be built bearing his name and the evergreen highway signs to be emblazoned with the sigil of the Dark Lo…”
Books here
- settingHard Ticket: New Writing Made in Newfoundland
Lisa Moore
LRC reviewer Brad Dunne explicitly identifies the Avalon U student centre as a fictionalization of Memorial University in St. John's.
Authors tied here
- Jessica Grantwrote at