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Family Tree Research Tips
Mount Pearl and… Singapore?
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Romance Gone Hysterically Wrong
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life is better Published monthly in St. John’s by Downhome Publishing Inc. 43 James Lane, St. John’s, NL, A1E 3H3 Tel: 709-726-5113 • Fax: 709-726-2135 • Toll Free: 1-888-588-6353 E-mail: mail@downhomelife.com Website: www.downhomelife.com Editorial Editor-in-Chief Janice Stuckless Assistant Editor Katherine Saunders Art and Production Art Director Vince Marsh Graphic and Web Designer Cory Way Illustrator Mel D’Souza Illustrator Snowden Walters Advertising Sales Senior Account Manager Robert Saunders Account Manager Barbara Young Marketing Director Tiffany Brett Finance and Administration Junior Accountant Marlena Grant Accounting Assistant Sandra Gosse Operations Manager, Twillingate Nicole Mehaney
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Contents
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54 Money Well Spent How a social enterprise is shouting out about the local community. Katherine Saunders
64 Seals vs Cod Wildlife technician Todd Hollett shares research that connects the dots between surging seal populations and struggling cod stocks.
108 Everyday Recipes
54 buy local www.downhomelife.com
Valentine’s Day is coming – treat yourself or someone special to these homemade treats.
140 Newfoundlandia The fateful day an avalanche devastated a peaceful St. John’s neighbourhood. Chad Bennett February 2020
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homefront 10 I Dare Say A note from the editor 11 Contributors Meet the people behind the magazine
12 Letters From Our Readers Fishery flaws, cable guy to the rescue, and tomato gravy
20 Downhome Tours Downhome readers explore Alaska
22 Why is That? Why do we sometimes “see stars,” and what does SOS really mean? Linda Browne
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26 Life’s Funny Grave Error Beulah and Gordon Morgan
27 Say What A contest that puts words in someone else’s mouth
28 Lil Charmers Share the love 30 Pets of the Month Beautiful friendships
32 Poetic Licence “Winter’s Pace” by Wayne Taylor, and “Friendship” by Rita Penney 34 Reviewed Denise Flint interviews Gemma Hickey and reviews their book, Almost Feral.
38 What Odds Paul Warford’s slow road to TV stardom 4
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40 Rides of My Life Some cars stay with you throughout the decades. Phil Riggs
44 Memories Restored A childhood artifact brings up dreams of days gone by. Daphne Belbin Tumlin
48 Love Gone Wrong Readers’ tales of romance gone awry 50 Toque Talk The rise to fame of the iconic winter hat
features 58 Trying to Map Your Family Tree? It can be a daunting task, but
40 car troubles
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70 History All Sewed Up The Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild is preserving folklore one stitch and one story at a time. Dennis Flynn February 2020
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76 A Tale of Two Pearls Newfoundland and Singapore’s surprising connection runs deeper than just British colonialism. Dale Jarvis
82 Sure Shots Featuring photographer Celeste Andersen
explore 90 Romancing the Rock A fairy tale tour of NL
92 Proud to be an Islander The fascinating similarities between Newfoundland and other islands around the world
98 Travel Diary Screecher Ready Catherine Thompson 102 Travel Diary My Baycation
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Story Tonia Pilgrim-Saunders
food and leisure 104 The Everyday Gourmet Dessert for breakfast Andrea Maunder
118 Stuff About What do Eugene Levy, Florence Nightingale and Good Friday have in common?
120 Todd’s Table How to cook with confidence Todd Goodyear
122 Down to Earth Growing greens in the winter – it is possible! Kim Thistle 6
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132 Cupid’s children
126 Rooftop Remedy What could rooftop gardens do for food security in Canada? Carla MacInnis Rockwell
reminiscing 130 Flashbacks Classic photos of people and places
131 This Month in History The dawn of Commission of Government About the cover These Cherry Cheesecake Brownies, made by Chef BernieAnn Ezekiel at Academy Canada and photographed by our own Cory Way, looked too good to resist putting on the cover. Find this recipe and more sweet treats beginning on page 108.
132 Visions and Vignettes Gnat, do you mind… Jersey Cows? Harold N. Walters
136 Compassion in Crisis A tale of heroism and kindness on the Burin Peninsula Katherine Saunders
Cover Index Family Tree Research Tips • 58 Can a Seal Cull Save the Cod? • 64 Rooftop Gardens • 126 Just Desserts • 108 Mount Pearl and… Singapore? • 76 Shop Local for Good • 54 Romance Gone Hysterically Wrong • 48 www.downhomelife.com
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Stuck on a branch of your family tree? This story might help. p. 58
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i dare say
Love isn’t found in grand gestures; it’s seeded in the simplest things.
Todd Young photo
I started dating this guy a little over a decade ago. He was always doing some DIY project or another, and this particular fall he was building a new patio on the front of his house. Often when I’d come by for a visit, he’d be out there until dark, shovelling, hammering, sawing, drilling. Sometimes I’d lend a hand; I’ve always been a tomboy like that. It doesn’t sound like a very romantic courtship, though, does it? You’ll be surprised. One day I came by and he had just finished pouring concrete at the base of the new patio. He asked me to come around and have a look at what he’d done. He was grinning and looked like he was trying to suppress a giggle. I thought it was a bit weird to be this excited over poured concrete, but okay. He led me by the hand to the construction area and pointed at it with pride, and then waited, smiling expectantly, for my reaction. “Nice job,” I agreed. “Look closer,” he said, pointing to a particular spot. There in the wet concrete he had scrawled out a heart, and inside he’d inscribed our initials in schoolboy fashion: TY + JS. A simple gesture, it cost nothing and took seconds, but the meaning was deep and long lasting. Here he’d laid evidence of our love, in concrete, in a permanent place at his home. We’ve now been married for a year and a half. Every now and again I think of that message under our front patio. Nobody knows it’s there, but we do. And that’s all that matters. Happy Valentine’s Day,
Janice Stuckless, Editor-in-chief janice@downhomelife.com
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Contributors
Meet the people behind the magazine
Daphne Belbin Tumlin
Dale Jarvis
Born in New Chelsea, NL, Daphne Tumlin was 15 years old when she left the community in 1959, with her parents and siblings, to move to the mainland for what she thought would be a temporary relocation. In this issue, Daphne tells the story of a visit to her hometown where she uncovered a memento from her childhood (see p. 44). Daphne never moved back to Newfoundland, but her roots are very important to her. She writes, “Newfoundland is at the core of my identity. If my husband, children and grandchildren did not know all about Newfoundland, they could not know me. No matter what experiences shaped me after I left Newfoundland, it was my outport parents who made me who I am.” Daphne and her husband, Ron, live in Houston, Texas. They have two children and two grandchildren, who love Newfoundland. She is currently writing a memoir that traces her family’s journey from 1927 to 2013.
Folklorist Dale Jarvis is the Intangible Cultural Heritage Officer for the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. He works with communities around the province to keep traditions alive. In this issue, Dale recounts an interesting Newfoundland-related discovery he made while attending the 2019 World Conference on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Jeonju, South Korea (see p. 76). Dale’s favourite part of his work is listening to stories. “I am curious about a lot of different things, and most of them involve storytelling in some way. I’m always interested in the stories that people tell about the places they live, local legends, traditional beliefs and the stories behind old objects,” he says. “I’m fascinated by mysteries and hidden or half-forgotten knowledge. I love the idea of bringing things to light that other people may not have come across.” He also dabbles in tales of the supernatural – he’s the founder of the St. John’s Haunted Hike, a guided tour of the creepy side of the capital city.
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Share the Love Best Buddies Sadie loves her tiny human, Rohan, very much. Kayla Pomroy CBS, NL
Poppy’s Girl Lily came all the way from New Brunswick to visit her Poppy Jerry in Labrador City and was surprised (and excited!) to see snow in June. Jessica Abbott Labrador City, NL
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Having a Giggle These two besties shared a joke while out playing in Hant’s Harbour. Sheila Ellis Hant’s Harbour, NL
Kindred Spirits Cousins Sophie Rowan and Layla Blanchard met for the first time in the summer of 2018 and hit it off right away. Cynthia Hicks St. George’s, NL
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Beautiful Friendships Dog’s Eye View Finnegan (left) and Harley (right) take in the sights in Blackhead, NL. Kerri-Leigh Pittman Mount Pearl, NL
Purr-fect Valentines Garfield and Felix have a snuggle on the sofa. Wanda Lambert Torbay, NL
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Typical Siblings Like many human siblings, Dango the cat (top) loves to torment his big sister, Mochie. Megan Torraville Halifax, NS
New Friends Storm the husky is not sure what kind of “dog� his new friend is, but he likes her. Crystal Peddle Long Beach, NL
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change attitudes. I do it by being. That’s how I outlive homophobia. It’s an accomplishment to say I’ve survived. That’s why I applied for a gender-neutral passport – to carve out a space for people who don’t fit in. It’s all a response to my trauma because I’ve lived through it. If I can change one person, I can change the world. The people on the island I met and the conversations we had – there were incredible moments.
whole process of being stripped down emotionally and physically was cathartic, and being out in the wild and having a chance to reflect on my life and my own experiences and trauma gave me the opportunity to be myself completely. I feel like some people think there’s an end point to transition, but every day I’m changing and meeting a new person or idea that changes the way I relate to the world, and I think that’s a wonderful thing.
DF: Are you at peace? GH: I would definitely say I’m more at
DF: Are you going to keep on fighting? GH: I’ll never stop; it’s in me; it’s who
peace with myself. I feel the walk brought up things I hadn’t realized were still there and made me face them in a way I hadn’t done before. I felt like I’d conquered my fears and stopped holding myself back from feelings and memories that were trying to tell me something all along.
DF: Are you still half feral? GH: By the end of the walk I had nowhere to place myself. I didn’t feel exclusively male or exclusively female. When I applied for a passport that wasn’t male or female, you’re almost considered uncivilized in a way. The
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I am and I’m good at it. I don’t fight against something, I fight for something. I bring that sense of optimism to helping others and it helps me, too. My next book will be about living within the binary of being male and female, but I had to get this one out first because I felt really connected to this journey, and it’s symbolic of the journey children across the island made to go to Mount Cashel or Belvedere. I wanted to capture the enormity of what I experienced for me and hopefully for others.
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By Daphne Belbin Tumlin Houston, TX, USA
In 1997, New Chelsea called her wanderers home. The clarion call that went out must have sounded like the last roll call for my parents who had left Newfoundland in 1959, at the beginning of a mass migration to the mainland. I heard the call, too, and so did my brother, Calvin. We said we were returning to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the founding of our native land, but it was nostalgia, wistful and evocative, and ethereal voices emanating from the rocks and coves that called us home.
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Three days of festivities concluded with a soul-binding service at the United Church that my great-grandfather had helped build in 1844. He had earned shares for his labour, and the members with the most shares got the best seats: the ones closest to the minister and the perfect distance from the hot stove. So that’s just where we sat that day. From there we could see across the harbour to the top of South Side Hill, where we were born and where our family’s house had once stood overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. After the service ended, Calvin and I walked to the site of our ancestral home to linger a while on the spot that held so many happy memories. Our cousin Ted and his wife, Susie, sat with us, enjoying the cool breeze that was gently blowing the piss-a-beds, daisies and buttercups. When the sun pried itself from the clouds, I felt its
warmth on my face. It was easy to recall the saltbox house of wood and nails, cloth and paper, where we had once been held together with fish, wild berries and root vegetables. Now everything was gone except the cellar that had been hewn into the cliff. As we visited together, Calvin saw a piece of an old iron bed poking out of the ground. We all began to claw cautiously at the earth, like an archeological dig. We unearthed the frames of two beds, four brass knobs, four spindles, two spools and three brass circles. After we assembled everything, we realized that these were the beds where our parents, grandparents, maybe even great-grandparents, had slept. We had sold the house in 1954, and the new owners must have discarded our furniture right on the hill where we were sitting. It had been buried there for 43 years.
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I pressed my hand firmly against the top of the rusty old bed, asking time to play back the reel from 1953 when I last lived on that hillside. In my little girl eyes, I could see the view through the double-paned bedroom windows to the ocean below. I felt as though at any moment I would run downstairs and see my mother taking fresh bread
uncontrollable and irresistible. It was one of those times that my memory will never give up. “I slept in that bed,” Calvin said, holding up an old iron bed frame and breaking my trance. “If you listen closely enough,” my cousin Susie said, “these beds will tell you their stories.”
“Are you telling me that you paid almost $500 just to ship junk from Newfoundland to Houston?” he asked. out of the oven, then slathering it with butter and molasses for me to eat. Shivers ran down my spine, and the moment felt large and mysterious. I felt both happy and sad, and for a moment I thought I might be having an out-of-body experience. The feeling of connection was transcendent,
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Although I knew that these old beds were just bits and bones of the life I had known so many years ago, I could not leave them behind. I asked my cousin, Alick Young, who lived in nearby Blaketown, to ship them to my home in Houston, Texas. He resisted, saying it would be a waste of time and
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Above and lower left: Daphne had both bed frames restored and gave one to her sister. money. “These beds cannot be refurbished,” he insisted, “and it will cost a fortune to crate and ship them to the United States.” Pushing aside Alick’s objections like pie crumbs from a cutting board, I quickly told him that if he could not do the job, I knew someone who could. As I began to walk away, I heard him say, “Come back, my love. I’ll ship all of it if it means that much to you.” When the beds arrived in Houston, a US customs officer called and asked me to come to the Air Canada Cargo Terminal to identify a shipment he had received. I told him it was just two old rusty beds that had been buried for over 40 years. He didn’t believe me. “Are you telling me that you paid almost $500 just to ship junk from www.downhomelife.com
Newfoundland to Houston?” he asked. “Yes,” I replied, “that’s just what I’m telling you.” “Well, you’ll have to prove it,” he said. As I watched the US custom agent pry open the wooden boxes, I looked around to locate the handcuffs they intended to use when the counterfeit shipment was exposed. “You were right,” the customs agent said when he saw the pile of dirty, rusty frames. “This is just junk.” “It’s not junk to me,” I responded. I had the beds refinished and painted, and 22 years later one sits in my house and the other in my sister Evelyn’s house as bed-shaped paperweights, keeping what is left of our childhood from drifting away. February 2020
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It’s not every day I go undercover for a story.
But this evening I did, in a room full of ladies armed with needles. While holding up one corner of an enormous ornate quilt for me to photograph, one of the quilters says, “You really have to have a look at the back. It is something special.”
So under the quilted cover I go, on hands and knees to gaze up in utter darkness at the cocoon of the quilt. The awkward silence from the women in the room tells me I’ve made a dreadful error in strategy. Finally, realizing I will have to come out eventually, I say sheepishly, “I forgot my flashlight. What exactly am I supposed to be looking for?” “Get out from under there,” chides a friendly voice. “You seem lovely, but you don’t know much about quilts, do you? We were 72
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going to turn it over for you if you waited a second.” They all chuckle heartily as I crawl back out into the light. In a moment I do indeed see that there is another beautiful pattern on the quilt’s underside. And for the next hour, the ladies of the Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild humour me and educate me in the way of their art and the history of their group. “We started off as a small group of friends [around 1997], and six of us would meet and have fun and quilt at each other’s houses as an 1-888-588-6353
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informal Tuesday stitch group,” explains Carol Wheeler, as fellow quilters Pat Ivimey and Georgina King nod along. “There were 25 members of all ages when we formed officially in September 2006, initially as the Bay Roberts Quilters’ Guild. We really wanted to be a guild because it has a more formal structure and has an education component, companionship, quilt shows, and a charity aspect that was very important to our mentor and friend, the late Mabel Rorke. Over the years we changed names and grew to around 65 members – with a substantial waiting list due to demand, moved to a new location and have loved it all. We have a lot of fun together, as you can see.” One of their signature pieces is the beautiful Pigeon Inlet Quilt based on the beloved “Tales From Pigeon www.downhomelife.com
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Inlet” stories of Ted Russell (a native of Coley’s Point, Bay Roberts) measuring roughly six feet by seven feet. A committee came up with the design, and 44 women were involved in the actual making of the quilt. There’s almost no way to calculate the hours it took to hand stitch and hand appliqué this original masterpiece. The group adopted the name Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild around the time they unveiled the quilt in 2010. Carol says, “The feedback has been phenomenal. It is a one-of-a-kind piece of artwork that is so special because it is based on the combined efforts and talents of so many of the guild members. People from all over the world see it on permanent display up there in the Bay Roberts Visitors Information Centre, and the comments they leave in the guest
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books indicate they simply love it. That is very fulfilling to hear.” Particularly touching to me is the charity work the guild quietly does every year. They’ve donated quilts to fundraisers for the Bay Roberts Library, the Avalon North Wolverines Search and Rescue, the Carbonear General Hospital Gift Shop, Ascension Collegiate, the Bay Roberts Cultural Heritage Foundation and others. The guild has also made and donated blankets for newborn babies at Carbonear Hospital, pillowcases for the Janeway Children’s Hospital, and turbans and pillows for chemotherapy patients. Recently I ran into Pat Ivimey at an art event, almost a decade since that first evening I spent with the ladies of the Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild. She updated me on the guild’s activities.
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“Our next quilt show is in 2021,” she says. “We decided to only do one major show every five years as it takes a significant amount of time and work to prepare enough quilts.” The last show, in 2016, exhibited more than 200 quilts, including one commemorating the First World War. Pat says several thousand people attended the weekend event. Between shows, the guild is still active in the community. A new addition to the Road to Yesterday Museum, housed in the Cable Building National Historic Site in Bay Roberts, is a Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild quilt done in 2016 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel. Last year, they donated a quilt to CBN Soccer, England Division to help them raise trip money. And this year,
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they made a quilt in aid of the Baccalieu Trail SPCA. “Also, one of our members passed away last year from ALS. She had donated over 20 baby/children panels to us, which we made into quilts and donated to various places in the area having to do with child care,” Pat says. “Outside of the guild, our individual members are very generous and also donate to many other groups and organizations of which they are part. We all really enjoy being part of the guild and, in some cases, the friendships formed while making quilts together have lasted a lifetime.” To find out more about the Pigeon Inlet Quilters’ Guild and their latest projects and shows, follow them on Facebook.
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GREAT GIFT IDEAS!
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The Invisibles: A History of the Royal Newfoundland Companies #78583 | $21.95
Chasing a Dream: The Carl English Story Carl English with Blake Murphy #78620 | $19.95
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Island Vegan: Over 100 Delicious Plant Based Recipes - Marian Frances White #78676 | $29.95
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$23.99 each
Newfoundland Flashlight Red #74121 Blue #74122
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Moose Socks
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ASPEN COVE, NL • $54,900 1000 Sq. Ft., 220 Ft. Ocean front overlooking Fogo Island. Artesian well, new air exchanger & hot water boiler. Laminate flooring, galley kitchen, 3 bedroom. Includes: appliances, 42" flat screen, bdrm set, kitchen set. Great retirement or your home away from home. Dan: 709-728-8386 • Wendy: wendy.summers@hotmail.com THREE BEDROOM OCEAN FRONT HOME Surveyed & Registered Land
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Warm
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The sunset over downtown St. John’s softens the edges on this frosty day. Jim Desautels St. John’s, NL
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