The isolated island community of Gaultois, on Newfoundland's south coast, has gone through many changes in its more than 200-year history from being home to many Indigenous people to eventually being settled by the French and British pursuing the fishery in the area. Contributor Allan Stoodley takes a trip through history.
While some travellers are stranded in Bishop's Falls or Grand Falls-Windsor along the Trans-Canada Highway, Harbour Breton on the island's south coast will go ahead with its Come Home Year celebrations. The main concern, says the deputy mayor, are possible supply shortages and medical emergencies.
The Mariner's Memorial has given a form of closure to some of the widows and children of lost seamen but the emotional fallout can carry on into future generations.
Earlier this year, the schooner marked 100 years since its launch, and a Fortune, N.L. man the only doryman still alive who fished on it is closing in on that milestone as well.