The project of the university's Folklore and Language Archive aims to find the first names of women who contributed remedies, recipes and local beliefs, but were only credited as a "missus," with their husband's last name and often his first name or initials.

The average age of people who died in a Canadian correctional facility in the past two decades was 44, according to a database launched Friday by a team helmed by an Ottawa criminologist.

Figures from Newfoundland and Labrador's Justice Department show more than 14 per cent of inmates released from the province's largest correctional facility have no address on file to go home to.