A friend and I discover the military past and the industrial past on Placentia Bay |

Sources

› “Argentia,” Wikipedia, updated September 3, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentia. |

› Boskalis, “Equipment Sheet: Triumph: Semi-Submersible Heavy Transport Vessel,” Boskalis.com, https://boskalis.com/media/3p4noap4/triumph.pdf (viewed June 24, 2025). |

› Dale Jarvis, Place Names of Newfoundland and Labrador, Flanker Press, 2022. |

› Alan Rayburn, Dictionary of Canadian Place Names, Oxford, 1997. |

› Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population: Census Profile: Newfoundland and Labrador, modified August 2, 2024, https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/prof/search-recherche/lst/results-resultats.cfm?Lang=E&GEOCODE=10#resgeo. |

› Troy Turner, “Residents of ‘Canada's Smallest Town’ Are Moving Out,” CBC News, May 19, 2025, https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/residents-of-canada-s-smallest-town-are-moving-out-1.7537408. |

› Wayne Jones, Photos of Placentia and Argentia, https://photos.app.goo.gl/RAPjejY7Cb4mL2BH6 |

I return after a seven-month hiatus to weekly podcast episodes every Saturday.

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Wayne says a brief goodbye in this final episode of the podcast ▬

Source

→ Wayne Jones’s website, WayneJones.ca ||

Wayne talks about the subjectivity of film and the common habit of not distinguishing the world of the of the movie from the real world

> Wayne's movie list:

https://www.waynejones.ca/movies/movies/

Wayne talks about the one-year anniversary of his move from Ottawa to St. John’s ▬

Wayne reads three of his works of short fiction ▬

Source

→ Wayne Jones, "Short Fiction," https://www.waynejones.ca/writing/short-fiction/ || ▬

Wayne Jones talks to St. John's artist Emilee Hickey about her painting ▬

LINKS
Wicked Winds Art Studio (Instagram), https://www.instagram.com/wickedwindsartstudio ▬

Wicked Winds Art Studio (Facebook), https://www.facebook.com/people/Wicked-Winds-Art-Studio/61550806900534/?mibextid=LQQJ4d ▬

PAINTING
From the Heart, painting by Emilee Hickey, https://photos.app.goo.gl/h2Tjx7rQTZPLzrnd6 ▬

Seniors still hope for love after the experience of never having had it or of losing it ▬

Sources

→ Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, edited David Womersley. London: Penguin Random House, 2008. ||

→ Jones, Wayne. My Sam Johnson: A Biography for General Readers. William & Park, 2023. || ▬