The Grandys of Garnish: A history of shipbuilding and lobster fishing in a tiny N.L. town

The Daphne and Phyllis was one of several larger banking schooners built by shipwright Cephas Grandy in the mid-1940s. The vessel was side-launched — in local terminology 'launched on her bilge' — instead of the traditional way of the hull sliding down an inclined slipway, stern first. (Robert W. Stoodley Photography)Garnish — population of 542 as of the 2021 census — can trace its history back more than two and a half centuries to 1763, when the first Grandys were unceremoniously moved from the

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