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Parks Canada has changed the boundary of a new national protected marine area around the fjords on Newfoundland's south coast by nearly 30 per cent. The change covers fewer fjords and opens up areas for potential aquaculture. Originally proposed to cover more than 9,000 kilometres from the communities of McCallum to La Poile, the new boundary around the South Coast Fjords marine conservation area has been reduced to cover nearly 6,500 kilometres. Barbara Barter, the former mayor of Burgeo and head of the local steering committee for the project, told CBC News the memorandum of understanding between the federal and provincial governments along with the Miawpukek and Qalipu First Nations said that current and proposed aquaculture sites had to be respected.

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Malaga Grenet (Julio Málaga Grenet), McCallum Store Advertisement, Lithographed advertisement for the McCallum department store features an art deco-inspired illustration of a woman at the store's hosiery counter, while other shoppers walk past, 1920.

731. Franklin Andrus Burr & Ann Kidston McCallum /// Gerald R. Hoepfner House (Berkshires House I) /// Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA /// 1987

Portrait of Jane Y. McCallum. Image # PICB 13189, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library.

Jane McCallum Texas’s Longest Serving Secretary of State

Women's Suffrage Jane McCallum was a fierce proponent for women's suffrage. While running a household and taking care of her four children, she was elected president of the Austin Women's Suffrage association in 1915. McCallum was also well versed in dealing with the press. She wrote a suffrage column for the Austin American and the Austin Statesman as well as serving as state manager of press and publicity for the Texas state constitutional suffrage amendment. After suffrage, she headed publicity efforts for other goals of the Joint Legislative Council, a group of five women's groups often referred to as the "Petticoat Lobby."  With the "Petticoat Lobby," McCallum campaigned for education, prison reform, and stronger prohibition laws. In 1926, she headed the Joint Legislative Council's campaign for Dan Moody against the incumbent governor Miriam Ferguson. 

Secretary of State In 1927, Dan Moody appointed Jane McCallum Secretary of State, an office she would retain under Governor Ross Sterling, making her the longest serving Secretary of State and the only one to serve under two different governors. During her tenure, McCallum found an original copy of the Texas Declaration of Independence in a vault in the Capitol. She had the document restored and displayed in the Capitol, an act which she considered one her most important contributions to Texas. The document is now in the Texas Library and Archives while the decorative grille is on display in the Capitol Visitor Center in Austin.