Were any practicing pagans with knowledge of the ancient practice of cursing able to lay hands on the bowl before it crossed the ocean by any chance?

St Patrick's Day is on the 17th. Feline lucky?

A young lad walked into a shop in the city market uptown St John in 1849 to buy flints. He wasn't happy about the Orange parade rumoured to be coming through the city's Irish Catholic neighborhoods that day. Sensing danger shops closed for the day. The parade commenced.The Catholics laid in wait.

For those with interest in the history of Prince Edward Island and The Belfast Riot of 1847

In the early 1600s young Irishmen were solicited for seasonal fishing work in Newfoundland.
In Gaelic Newfoundland was named "Talamh an Eisc" which meant "land of the fish."

Canada reads

In Toronto soon? How about lunch and a launch?
The incomparable Dr Andrea O'Reilly and daughter Casey come together for 'Gone Feral.'
(...the undoing of normative femininity..)

Canadian reads, eats soups, snacks and takes magensium made in Canada 🍁

Canadian reads authors from New Brunswick

Canadian weekend shops at local library
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No HST
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Canadian reads more Heather Marshall

Canadian reads "Looking for Jane"