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58 Race Against the Tide Comedian Shaun Majumder hosts a new TV show that pits world-class sand sculptors against each other, and Mother Nature, in the Bay of Fundy. Linda Browne
66 A Place to Roam The planned Newfoundland Pony Heritage Park will be a haven for our marvellous breed. Nicola Ryan
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These museums teach visitors what formal learning looked like a century ago.
102 Down to Earth Healing Gardens: Plants to grow for home remedies. Kim Thistle September 2021
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Contents homefront 10 I Dare Say A note from the Editor 12 Letters From Our Readers
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24 oh Canada
HCMS Halifax, a giant cod, and favourite reading spots
18 Pandemic Pictures Young people share their COVID-19 experiences
24 Downhome Tours Readers explore Canada with Downhome 26 Why is That? Why do we say someone is “worth their salt”? Linda Browne
28 Life’s Funny Cleanup on Highway 1 Wanda Yetman 29 Say What? A contest that puts words in someone else’s mouth 30 Lil Charmers Kids Got Talent 32 Pets of the Month Game Night! 34 Reviewed Denise Flint reviews The Hanged Woman’s Daughter by Nellie P. Strowbridge
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36 What Odds Paul Warford loses his cool at road construction
38 Fresh Tracks Wendy Rose chats with Rosemary Lawton about her new folk/pop album Canvas 42 Newfoundland: A Spiritual Journey Rev. Dr. Joseph Burke
30 talented tykes
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44 9/11 reflection
44 Poetic Licence From Grounded to Glorious: Gander’s 9/11 response Curt Budden
48 Unusual Libraries In recent years, the word library has found use in other ways that create accessibility in our communities.
features 52 Think Outside the Classroom Cloudberry Forest School is blazing a trail for outdoor education in Newfoundland and Labrador. Nicola Ryan
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96 easy pasta
home and cabin 84 Stuff We Love Storage Solutions Nicola Ryan
86 Home Remedies Cures for common ailments that you might find in your cupboard. 88 Holding Onto Summer The art of pressing flowers Marie Bishop 92 Todd’s Table Stick to Your Ribs Beef Stew Todd Goodyear 96 Everyday Recipes Pasta meals for the whole family
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reminiscing 108 Flashbacks Classic photos of people and places 109 This Month in History Come From Away
110 Visions and Vignettes Adventures of two young scalawags in a fictional long-ago outport Harold N. Walters
114 The Newfoundland Airport About the cover This Newfoundland pony will join others grazing in a new park built just for them. The story begins on page 66.
Gander’s earliest days, through the eyes of a seven-year-old girl Heather Stemp
Helen Milley/Discovering Newfoundland photo
120 Whale of a Tale A surprise encounter with a humpback that nearly ended the lives of three brothers Kim Ploughman
Cover Index How to Grow a Healing Garden • 102 Forest School • 52 Capsized by a Whale • 120 For the Love of Ponies • 66 Schoolhouse Memories • 78 9/11 Remembered • 44 Murray Premises Turns 175 • 72 www.downhomelife.com
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kids got talent Top Chef Jean gets ready to bake at her Nan Holloway’s place in Bloomfield. Addie Holloway Bloomfield, NL
Accordion Idol Leah loves to play accordion with her grandpa. John Drakes Middle Sackville, NS
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Next Great Artist Roly sketches a portrait on the new easel his daddy made. Carol & John Parsons Fort McMurray, AB
Design Stars Twin brothers Nicholas and Ryan helped paint the lobster buoys. Nicole Bennett St. Paul’s, NL
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MANY OF US CAN REMEMBER
building sand castles and sculptures as a child while spending a fun-filled day at the beach – crouching with the sun in your face and your toes in the wet sand as you constructed whales, dragons, castles and entire kingdoms from your imagination. But regardless of all your time and efforts, your world would always come crumbling down, literally, as the waves rushed in and swept your creations out to sea. Now, imagine you’ve carried your interest and skill into adulthood and you’re at the top of your game, competing against not only some of the best sand sculptors around the globe, but the highest tides in the world. That’s the premise of CBC TV’s new reality/competition series, premiering this month. It’s a wild ride hosted by Newfoundland funnyman Shaun Majumder.
Photos courtesy of Marblemedia / Denis Duquette
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“Race Against the Tide” host Shaun Majumder
A Force of Nature
Growing up in rural Newfoundland, in Burlington on the Baie Verte Peninsula, there weren’t a lot of sandy beaches to practise his own sand sculpting skills, Shaun says. Other than the nearby Flatwater Pond Park (“That was our Hawaii when I was growing up,” he recalls), there was an abundance of these “clay holes.” “There was a clay hole out by the brook, and there was a clay hole down on this other rocky beach which we would dig in, get the clay, we would sculpt it, make little men out of it or women out of it, and then we would smear it all over our bodies. It was like going to the spa,” he says, laughing at the memory. While Shaun might not have been destined to become a famous sand sculptor when he grew up, a once-in60
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a-lifetime opportunity to dig deeper into the art did arise later in life. And it couldn’t have come at a better time. Shaun was living in Los Angeles with his wife, actress Shelby Fenner, and their baby daughter Mattis last summer when the COVID-19 pandemic had practically shut down the film/TV industry. So with the cancellation of his comedy tour and no new job prospects on the horizon, along with the United States’ alarming coronavirus rates, the family decided to pack up and head home to Newfoundland. That’s when Shaun received a call from his agent, offering him a hosting gig for a new show shooting that August in New Brunswick. “I was like, well that’s funny because I’m driving to Newfoundland. It’s kind of on the way,” Shaun laughs. “So all the stars aligned. And 1-888-588-6353
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I didn’t even know what this show was about, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m gonna do it.’” “Race Against the Tide,” is a halfhour competition series that features 10 teams of two world-class sand sculptors working together to create extraordinary art. But there’s a twist. Filmed at New River Beach (which has hosted an annual sand sculpture competition since 1985) in the Bay of Fundy, home to the world’s highest tides, the teams are competing against not only each other, but also Mother Nature’s unstoppable clock. According to the Bay of Fundy Tourism Partnership, 160 billion
tonnes of seawater flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy twice daily, which is “more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers.” Parks Canada says at the head of the bay, the tide can rise 16 metres – about the height of a four-storey building. “Race Against the Tide” contestants have about six hours and 13 minutes to build their sculptures (the time it www.downhomelife.com
takes to change from low to high tide). Whereas under normal circumstances, Shaun says, it’d take them an entire weekend, or longer, to bring their creations to life. In the end, all the sculptures meet the same fate as they’re swallowed up by the tide that same day. “I don’t see this show ever happening anywhere else around the September 2021
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Filming an episode of “Race Against the Tide”
world... growing up in school you hear, ‘Oh, the Bay of Fundy, the highest tides in the world.’ Until you’re there standing on the beach, and you see how quick the tide goes out and then how fast it rushes in, it truly is a heart pounder,” Shaun says. “When you’re down to your last half-hour, your last 20 minutes, and the ocean is creeping up the beach so fast… and you’re trying to get your sculpture done, and you’re trying to get the details in – it was really, really intense.”
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dove right in. “It was more fun than I could have ever imagined. It blew away all my expectations, and I loved every second of it... because I had no idea really of what I was getting into. When I met the artists and saw what they do and the level of skill that they have, it was mind blowing,” he says. Premiering September 9 on CBC TV and CBC Gem with two back-toback episodes, the show features sculptors from all over the world in pairs of various combinations, including a husband and wife, mother and daughter, and father and son. Their work is judged by Karen Fralich and Bruce Phillips, multiple award-winning sand sculptors. Each episode, one team gets eliminated and, ultimately, one will be crowned “Race Against the Tide Champions.” “These artists are all so quirky and 1-888-588-6353
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unique. They travel around the world, attending these festivals, and they build and they do this for a living, essentially... you get a really good sense of the characters in the show, but it’s gonna leave you wanting more,” Shaun says. The show was filmed in all sorts of weather, from hot and dry conditions to sideways rain, wind and fog (“I mean, it’s the Maritimes,” Shaun says), and thunder and lightning
during COVID, and the strict protocols put in place helped put everyone at ease. “You would never know that there was a pandemic happening around the world when you watch the show, and that was their intention,” Shaun says. “Marblemedia in New Brunswick, they were amazing, because they were the on-the-ground production team and they kept everybody incredibly safe.”
Shaun checks in with one of the artists on “Race Against the Tide”
storms, which all makes for great television, he adds. “All the danger and all that stuff that happened in terms of the risks to the sculptures was all real. We didn’t invent any of it... what you see is what you get.” The pandemic, like everything these days, played a part in the production as well – though Shaun says you’d never tell. “Race Against the Tide,” he says, is the first production that CBC got back up and running www.downhomelife.com
Considering the pandemic’s allconsuming grip on the world, perhaps there’s no better time for a show like this. As the tide ebbs and flows, it’s also a gentle reminder for us, too, to go with the flow and take life as it comes. “Honestly, it’s truly so much fun. I think that’s the key, is it’s fun... and it’s for everybody. And it’s a great Canadian background,” Shaun says. “So I think the fall, people are gonna fall in love with this show.” September 2021
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life is better Valley Pond Reflections Cory Babstock, Clarenville, NL
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The planned Newfoundland Pony Heritage Park will be a haven for our marvellous breed. BY NICOLA RYAN
Photos courtesy Helen Milley Discovering Newfoundland
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To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Newfoundland Pony Society (NPS) has launched an ambitious fundraising project to create a Heritage Park for endangered Newfoundland ponies. This new seasonal park will provide grazing pasture, breeding space and a visitors’ area to highlight the cultural significance of this special animal.
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Actor and environmentalist Greg Malone is passionate about protecting the Newfoundand Pony and is honourary chair of the fundraising campaign. Loss of habitat is a major threat to the survival of the Newfoundland pony, so the NPS is thrilled to have secured a 50-year lease on 25 hectares of land for them near Hopeall in Trinity Bay. Ponies owned by local folks will be able to run and graze freely in the summer and fall before returning home to their stables for the winter. The park is the largest initiative the NPS has undertaken in its history as a charitable organization, and work to fence the area and install a water source is already underway. Greg Malone, award-winning actor, environmentalist and animallover, has come on board as honorary chair of the fundraising campaign. He’s passionate about protecting the critically endangered breed, and his 68
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affection for the ponies and their special place in provincial culture and heritage shines through. “It’s a unique breed in all the world,” he says. “They evolved here over 400 years into a perfect horse for the Newfoundland and Labrador climate. They’re sturdy and affectionate, and they’re just lovely animals to be around.” Ponies and horses helped shape settlements and ways of life on the island portion of the province. The ancestors of the Newfoundland pony arrived with early settlers from Britain in the 1600s. These were primarily Exmoor, Dartmoor, Welsh and Connemara ponies. As Greg explains, through isolation and intermingling over hundreds of years, these ponies eventually evolved into 1-888-588-6353
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a distinct landrace breed uniquely adapted to Newfoundland. These particular physical traits are the direct result of living in our climate: hooded eyes and low-set tails to protect them from the driving rain and snow; tough hooves and close-set front legs for agility and sure-footedness on rocky terrain; ears that are small and extra furry to help prevent frostbite. In the past, this sweet-tempered, hard-working animal played an important role in the survival of
“I remember I used to go to Carbonear a lot. I would see these kids on their ponies riding down Water Street – all these girls with their hair flying and smiles on their faces. What a sight! I loved that, and I wish I could see it again.” He adds, “In the old days, of course, animals were free to roam.” However, in the 1970s, new municipal by-laws decreed that ponies could no longer wander and fences had to be built to keep them in. This
“Really, all they need is a little bit of pasture, a little bit of land to graze on. I’m sure the people of Newfoundland will be more than happy to give them that.” Greg Malone
rural Newfoundland. They ploughed fields and mowed meadows. They hauled wood for heating homes and kelp from the beaches to fertilize the gardens. Their natural intelligence, friendliness and willingness to work made them dependable companions for many, many years. Greg recalls the beauty of wild ponies running freely on the hills, and the sweet familiarity of seeing them in gardens and meadows. www.downhomelife.com
was a major loss of natural habitat. Building fences also raised the cost of keeping ponies, and economic times were hard in the late 1970s and ’80s. Thousands of ponies ended up being sold to meat processing plants across Canada and Europe. From an estimated plentiful population of over 12,000, the number of Newfoundland ponies dropped to about 100. “It’s a tragic story, what happened to the Newfoundland pony,” says Greg. September 2021
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There are now about 500 Newfoundland ponies living throughout Canada and the United States, thanks largely to the efforts of the Newfoundland Pony Society. These folks know that having a natural habitat where the ponies can graze, run and breed freely is essential to their health and survival as a species. “Really, all they need is a little bit of pasture, a little bit of land to graze on,” says Greg warmly. “I’m sure the people of Newfoundland will be more than happy to give them that.” The campaign for the creation of the Newfoundland Pony Heritage
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Park kicked off last year with a fundraising goal of $250,000 over two phases. Phase 1, the development of pasture, is in the works now. More than $55,000 has been raised to date and many volunteers have been hard at work fencing the land, rehabilitating the pasture and creating accessibility to the new park. Phase 2, set for next summer, imagines the development of a visitor centre and outdoor storyboards. The NPS hopes to welcome children and school groups to see and enjoy the ponies in their natural habitat, and maybe even have the ponies display traditional activities
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in a demonstration area. In the future, the park could serve as a destination for tourists and ponies could be promoted in the province’s marketing campaigns. “I think it’s something we could work with – all those wonderful ads for tourists, those super-saturated colour ads we see. A few ponies in those ads would increase their value many percentages,” Greg laughs. (Though the NPS has been dropping the hint to NL Tourism and making friendly suggestions on their social media channels all summer.) “To have our own little pony here in Newfoundland, I think it’s just a
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great benefit and a great treat. I’d like to see ponies roaming wild in the hills. I’d like to see them in the parks – in Terra Nova and Gros Morne. It’d be nice, wouldn’t it?” says Greg. “But I think the first part is to get them their own pasture. Let’s get the numbers back up to a respectable level where they’re not so critically endangered.” To find out more about the Newfoundland Pony Heritage Park, go to NewfoundlandPony.com. There, you can learn about volunteering, donating, or getting involved in other ways to help protect and celebrate our remarkable ponies.
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#80313 | $19.95
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A Very Silly (Wet and Woolly) Beach Rock Band - Susan Pynn Taylor/Ashley Quirke #80314 | $9.95
Plush Humpback Whale - 12" #52754 | $10.99
Finn’s First Song: A Whaley Big Adventure - Gerry Daly
#80315 | $9.95
#47477 | $12.95
Plush Harp Seal - 8" #63324 | $11.99
Plush Puffin - 4.5" #44414 | $8.99
Sale! NL Flag Towel - 32"x 64" #79656 | $17.99
Saltwater Joys - Wayne Chaulk/Dawn Baker
NL Sayings Blanket #77814 | $39.99 $24.88
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Sale! NL Tartan Blanket #75517| $39.99 $24.88
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GREAT GIFT IDEAS!
PURITY GOODNESS
Purity Peppermint Candy Purity Goodie Box #79290 | $49.99
Nobs #4238 Candy Barrels #49556
$4.50 each
Purity Kisses
Purity Gift Box #78550 | $19.99
Assorted #3997 Peanut Butter #4010
$4.50 each
Newfoundland Seasonings Ragin' Bayman Spicy BBQ #79465 | $7.99 • Moose Spice #77375 | $7.99 • Steak & Burger #77377 | $7.99 Cod Spice #77379 | $8.99 • Atlantic Ocean Salt #79802 | $7.99 • Maple Smoked Salt #79803 | $7.99
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Canvas Print 11"x 14" Lobster Pots Witless Bay #49806 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" Victoria S Street #49807 7 | $42.99
Canvas Print 10"x 16" Boat Oars #49757 757 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" Mittens for Sale S #49801 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" Emma’s mm Clothesline #51297 5 7 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" Tilting Quilts #49805 5 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" S S Sea Symphony m #51290 5 | $42.99
Canvas Print 11"x 14" Red S Sky Tranquility #49810 | $42.99
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Canvas Print 11"x 14" Chunks of Ice #49799 7 | $42.99
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Saltwater
Cathedral
Jewel-toned bottles catch the light like stainedglass in the window of this old fisherman’s store. Cory Babstock Clarenville, NL
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