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The Port of Bilbao and the St. Lawrence Seaway sign an...

Canal Welland parte de St. Lawrence Seaway
On May 16, the Port Authority of Bilbao anda  delegation from the Ports of the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway signed a...

Indiana to move the two-century-old cabin of a descendant of the...

Construida en 1820, se cree que la cabaña Pierre Navarre en Leeper Park es la estructura y residencia más antigua del condado de St. Joseph (ORDAN SMITH, SOUTH BEND TRIBUNE)
The Navarre cabin, in St. Joseph Country, is 200 years old, and was built by a descendant of the King of Navarre, is to be moved

Magan Basque is the first Indigenous Miss Canada United World

Magan Basque of Eskasoni made history this month when she was named the first Indigenous winner of the Miss Canada United World pageant. CONTRIBUTED MISS CANADA UNITED
Magan Basque, a member of the Mi'kmaq nation, which Basque sailors had an intense relationship with for centuries, has been crowned Miss Canada United World

A Basque at the International Court of Justice in The Hague

A young Basque-Canadian has joined the International Court of The Hague as the law secretary to its former President

“La ruta del Sain”: a historical novel about the journey of...

La ruta del sain. Novela histórica sobre balleneros vascos escrita por Alvaro Amieiro Fonseca
When we found out Vitoria-born Alvaro Amieiro Fonseca had written «La ruta del Sain», a historical novel recreating the epic journal of the Basque...

Guillermo Zubiaga: The Connection between ‘Joanes or the Basque Whaler’ and...

imagen de «Joanes the basque wahler» de Guillermo Zubiaga
  A few days ago, we were saddened to report on the passing of Selma Huxley, the researcher who made the world aware of the...

Selma Huxley, Basque Whaling Historian and Friend to the Basques, has...

Today, Selma Huxley, the historian, researcher, and friend of the Basques our nation owes so much to, has passed away.  With her passing, we will...

Shipbuilders, sailors, whalers: a “story of Basques” from the Royal Geographical...

Building work has been underway on the replica San Juan since 2014
Geographical, the official magazine of the Royal Geographical Society, has been published in the United Kingdom since 1935, and is, as we can imagine,...

Selma Huxley, the woman who showed epic journey of Basque whalers...

We've written a lot about how Basque whalers "lighted" Europe with the oil from the whales they captured off of modern-day Canada.  They were...

Two young Basque women are sharing our traditions at the Fortress...

This article was translated by John R. Bopp Canadian public broadcaster CBC has brought us a fabulous report about two young Basque students working there...