Frank Galgay

During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, a number of local Newfoundland writers did much to preserve many of the old stories and traditions that had been handed down by word of mouth from past generations of Newfoundlanders. They published their stories and articles in the Newfoundland Quarterly, …

Bestselling author Frank Galgay offers up this collection of his personal favorites from a wide variety of Canadian writers. Spanning 160 years, Classic Christmas Stories includes heartwarming tales of Christmases from pastoral Canadian towns, to hustling and bustling cities where the Christmas spirit can often be woefully hard to find.The stories …

The capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador has historical roots as far back as the early 1500s. Since then, many colourful events have combined to give St. John’s its unique personality.

Clashes between the English and French, flamboyant politicians, living ghosts and haunted houses, and the rise and fall of courageous men and women have shape …

Frank Galgay, one of Atlantic Canada’s favourite storytellers and a spinner of classic yarns, returns with a treasury of sea stories from the wind-ravaged coasts of Newfoundland and Labrador. The glory days of sailormen come alive in the pages of Rocks Ahead! as Galgay revisits the old northern channels where seafarers defied death at every turn. …

Volume V is the most recent addition to the series of Shipwrecks of Newfoundland and Labrador by Frank Galgay and Mike McCarthy. 

In Newfoundland, when the village man greets his neighbour on the street with a “Merry Christmas!” the chances are he is standing in a snowdrift and his words ride out on puffs of vapour in the crisp air. If he looks about, he sees snow-laden trees set into a background of clean, white landscape with chimney smoke curling lazily into an azure s …