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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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.
Maurice Kearley, 96, is among the last of the men who worked the Grand Banks in dories near great wooden schooners. See a full episode from Land & Sea, with host Jane Adey.