Map showing the location of Stephenville in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Place

Stephenville

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Map location of Stephenville

"Previously referred to as the Stephenville Air Base, the site was officially named Harmon Field on June 23, 1941 in honour of Capt. Ernest Emery Harmon, a pioneer in United States military aviation history who had served with the U.S. Air Corps during the First World War." "By mid-1943, 17 U.S. military units and more than 4,000 American soldiers were assigned to the base," and at its peak "approximately 30,000 troops pass through each year." "The American Air Force continued to use Harmon Field as a site for the air defence of North America until it closed in 1966." source

Scenes set here

  • Cover of The Raw Light of Morning
    The Raw Light of Morning

    Shelly Kawaja

    Fourteen-year-old Laurel Long does something unimaginable. In a house at the back end of Woods Road, she commits an act of violence that alters the course of her life. Laurel fi…

Books here

  • settingVive la Rose

    Robert Chafe

    Encyclopedia of Music in Canada anchors Vive la Rose to its Stephenville Theatre Festival commission, with music drawn from Émile Benoit's Franco-Newfoundland tradition.

References

  1. 1.Stephenville — description source
  2. 2.Vive la Rose: Robert Chafe, Vive la Rose (Stephenville Theatre Festival commission); via Encyclopedia of Music in Canada.
  3. 3.Scene from The Raw Light of Morning: Chris Benjamin, 'A Richly Layered Study of Poverty and Trauma,' The Fiddlehead; Breakwater Books publisher page