Viking Shadows
In The Valley
About the team
Drew Strickland
Website designer, cameraman, writer, and reporter.
Drew is a journalist who was born in Port Aux Basques, but spent most of his life in Halifax. After graduating high school, Drew moved back to Newfoundland where he worked at a recycle depot before deciding to enter journalism in 2014.
Nathan Barnes
Reporter, cameraman, writer, logistics, photo editor, and web designer.
Nathan was raised on the east Avalon, NL. During his time in the journalism program at College of the North Atlantic, Nathan has worked with many people in the Bay St. George area on a variety of news pieces and stories particularly with the Mi’kmaq Qalipu Band. Most recently Nathan has done work surrounding the missing and murdered indigenous women inquiry and its connections to the Bay St. George area.
Chris Lewis
Cameraman, chief video editor, drone pilot, writer, web designer and reporter
Chris is from Carbonear, NL. During his time studying at College of the North Atlantic, Chris has learned a wide variety of skills to apply to his work as a journalist. He enjoys being behind the camera to follow and report the news, and has taken advantage of drone journalism to further his skills. His use of drones in his work is something Chris takes great pride in, and looks forward to where drones can take the industry.
Kyle Greenham
Photographer
Kyle was born in Twillingate, NL, and moved to Edmonton, Alberta when he was seven. In the summer of 2015 he moved back to Newfoundland to take the journalism program at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville.
Jeff Ducharme
Academic Advisor
Jeff Ducharme is an award-winning photographer, reporter, and editor. He began his career with the Ottawa Sun and Reuters. Now an instructor with the College of the North Atlantic's journalism program, he spearheaded the drone journalism initiative at the college . CNA journalism was the first post-secondary school in Canada to introduce drone journalism into its curriculum in 2013 and to offer an entire elective course in drone journalism technology in 2015.
Special Thanks
Karen Gillingham
Video and script editor
Frank Caroll
Copy Editing
Thank you and Farewell
This website contains the first capstone project done by the College of the North Atlantic journalism students and the last to be produced at the Bay St. George campus.
After six weeks of long days and late nights, this small group of students brought together print articles, still images, video clips, drone footage and data journalism. They employed cutting-edge multi-media tools to assemble what is the last piece of work to be done at the Bay St. George CNA campus in Stephenville.
After more than three decades, the journalism program is moving to St. John’s. Before we go, we’d like to express our sincere gratitude to our Bay St. George hosts. Hundreds of journalists have been formed by, and because of, the people and places here. They have become storytellers by relating the experiences of the people here. It’s a debt CNA journalism will always acknowledge, and fond memories we shall always recall.
We hope everyone will enjoy the stories and images contained on these pages, but we hope the people of Bay St. George will take extra pride in the project since it was done by students living and learning in a place we shall always consider home.
- CNA Journalism
Special thanks to the communities of St. Andrews, Doyles, Cape Anguille, Upper Ferry and Millville, as well as the residents of Codroy Valley. Additional thanks to EW Gale for allowing us to do work in their store, the Belanger Memorial Grade 5 class and Wayne MacIsaac for his input and direction.