Media
Original Shipster on Out of the Fog
Heather sits down with Erin Sulley on Out of the Fog to discuss the SS Florizel and the importance of maritime history. Aired on February 23rd, 2016.
Original Shipster presents the SS Florizel
Heather Elliott, the Original Shipster, speaking at The Rooms Coffee and Culture in St. John's, Newfoundland. February 22nd, 2018.
Out of the Fog
Rogers TV, February 23, 2016Television
URL: https://youtu.be/I2-5qPo2bns
Heather on Out of the Fog discussing the SS Florizel with Erin Sulley.
Heather Elliott, the Original Shipster, on the Titanic
VOCM 590, September 5, 2019Radio/Podcast
URL: https://soundcloud.com/vocm/sept-4-rev-rob-cooke-vocm
Invited on as a guest to The Lunch Bunch with Andrew Hawthorn, discussing the recent images of the RMS Titanic and preservation of maritime history.
Shipwrecks and Social Media
Living Heritage Podcast, August 6, 2015Radio/Podcast
URL: http://livingheritage.libsyn.com/rss
Heather Elliott has an educational background in anthropology and museum management. Her passion for maritime history inspired her to create her own blog, www.originalshipster.com. Through it, she tells stories of ships and shipwrecks...
Faces of the Florizel On The Air
Living Heritage Podcast/Heritage Foundation of NL, February 28, 2018Radio/Podcast
Heather sat down with Dale Jarvis, Folklorist and Deanna Walter, Assistant Museum Manager from Admiralty House Communications Museum to discuss the history of the SS Florizel disaster and the behind-the-scenes work that went into preparing the Faces of the Florizel exhibit.
St. John's Harbour with the Original Shipster
The Broadcast - CBC Radio, August 17, 2017Radio/Podcast
URL: https://www.originalshipster.com/blog/archives/1489?rq=radio
Heather walks the harbour front with Jamie Fitzpatrick, chatting about ships, maritime history, and how she gets crew members to tell her about their lives.
How Do You Make an Economy Grow?
The Broadcast - CBC Radio, February 13, 2017Radio/Podcast
Heather talks to Jamie Fitzpatrick of CBC's The Broadcast about heritage preservation and youth engagement.
Web Trawler with Andrew Hawthorn
VOCM Radio, January 22, 2017Radio/Podcast
URL: https://soundcloud.com/vocm/web-trawler-jan-22-2017-the-original-shipster
Heather chats with VOCM's Andrew Hawthorn to discuss maritime history and the role that social media can play in preservation.
Profile: Heather Elliott
The Advisor, magazine of Newfoundland and Labrador Organization of Women Entrepreneurs (NLOWE), June 12, 2019Print
URL: https://www.thenloweadvisor.org/post/profile-heather-elliott
A profile of Heather's experience in the Entrepreneurial Training Program at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Written by Grace Tatigan.
The Story of the Spar: An Oral History of the Hazel Pearl
by Terra Barrett & Sarah Hannon; Heather Elliott (editor)
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Intangible Cultural Heritage Office
November 15, 2016
978-0-9937456-5-2
In 1945, the SS Hazel Pearl ran aground and sank in Champney's West, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland. The spar - part of the upper mast - was visible just below the surface for decades after until it was brought up accidentally by a local fisherman. The community decided to give the spar a place of honour outside of the Heritage House in Champney's.
Using first-hand accounts, this collection tells the story of the sinking and aftermath of the Hazel Pearl.
Railway Memories: Stories of the Newfoundland Railway
by Dale Jarvis & Heather Elliott (editors)
Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, Intangible Cultural Heritage Office
April 28, 2017
978-0-9937456-5-2
This collection of community stories brings the reader into the history of the Newfoundland Railway, which ran across the province from 1882-1988. First hand accounts describe life on the rails - the jobs, travel, and dangers of what was an important method of transportation in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Chinese Graves at the General Protestant Cemetery, St. John's
by Terra Barrett, Heather Elliott, Dale Jarvis, Li Xingping
Published by Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
February 1, 2017
Arriving at the turn of the 20th Century, immigrant Chinese men in St. John's faced unique challenges and barriers. At the General Protestant Cemetery in St. John's, a small grouping of headstones tells a portion of their story. Using burial markers and records, as well as primary and secondary sources, this article explores the history behind these burials.
URL: https://www.academia.edu/31263905/Chinese_Graves_at_the_General_Protestant_Cemetery_St._Johns
Biography
Heather Elliott is a maritime historian and writer living in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Sociocultural Anthropology from Trent University, where her studies focused on sexuality, gender, and death and mortuary practices. Elliott completed a year of study at Kansai Gaidai University in Hirakatashi, Osaka, Japan, and received a Certificate in Asian Studies upon completion of her program. Her undergraduate thesis was an ethnographic study on the effects of culture shock on students returning home from studying abroad.
Following her time at Trent University, she completed a year-long Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Management and Curatorship at Fleming College. She moved to St. John's in 2011. She worked with The Rooms Provincial Museum for four years, and was a key member of the exhibit development team who worked on the First World War exhibit that opened in 2016. Her focus was personal histories and narratives, crafting the biographies of over 300 men and women who were involved in the war.
Elliott is currently completing her Master of Arts at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Anthropology, with a focus on women in non-traditional roles within the maritime trades. When not working on her academic studies, sge writes her blog, Original Shipster, a collection of historic maritime narratives and modern ship information.