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Memories of the Ocean Ranger, 40 Years On
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Rabbit Hunting Adventures Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas
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52 Into the Woods Woodworker Edwin Bishop on the craft and art of making snowshoes. Nicola Ryan
56 Memories of the Ocean Ranger On the 40th anniversary of its sinking, Lloyd Major thinks about his days aboard the Ocean Ranger and the co-workers who were lost.
96 Everyday Recipes Decadent chocolate desserts
52 makin’ a racket
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114 Tale of Two Stowaways In remarkably similar but unrelated instances, these two French boys faced perilous journeys in hope of a better life in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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homefront 8 I Dare Say A note from the Editor 10 Letters From Our Readers An unusual rescue, a mystery object and memory quilts
18 Downhome Tours Downhome readers explore Africa
20 Why is That? Does drinking warm milk really help you sleep? Linda Browne
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23 Say What? A contest that puts words in someone else’s mouth 24 Lil Charmers Go With the Snow 26 Pets of the Month Sweethearts 28 Reviewed Denise Flint interviews Rick Mercer about his new book Talking to Canadians: A Memoir
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32 What Odds Paul Warford goes car shopping
34 Fresh Tracks Wendy Rose reviews Winter Island Tour by Sherman Downey & Matthew Byrne 38 What’s the Score Sports and active living for all ages Kevin Lane
40 Guest Column Pyjamas: Not Just for Pandemics Carla Rockwell 4
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42 Outdoor Adventures The love of rabbit hunting Gord Follett
features 48 Use Them or Lose Them Skills once essential to our survival are now at risk of being lost forever. Nicola Ryan 62 A Kindness Returned How fate brought these strangers together and showed them how deeply they were already connected. Phil Riggs 66 A Rescuer’s Tale The last surviving rescuer of the Truxtun-Pollux disaster recalls that fateful day. Linda Browne
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home and cabin 86 Stuff We Love Valentine’s Day Inspired Nicola Ryan
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88 The Nature of Quilts The crafted quilts of today vs the traditional handiwork of our forebears. Hilda Chaulk Murray 92 The Everyday Gourmet Sexy, Simple Spaghetti Andrea Maunder 102 Old-Fashioned Treats An excerpt from Perry Benoit’s new book, Snippets of Outport Newfoundland Life from Various Perspectives. 106 Down to Earth Making Babies Kim Thistle 6
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reminiscing 112 Flashbacks Classic photos of About the cover A chocolate mug cake is a simple, swift and satisfying treat anyone can make. So are the other chocolate recipes in this issue, presented for your mid-winter pleasure. Recipes begin on page 96.
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113 This Month in History The Churchill River
120 Sitting on Howard’s Bench Bruce Roberts
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My life flashes by when I touch one of Nan’s quilts. With each patch, a spotlight lands on a memory. The pink-checkered crimp knit piece was once a housecoat, one of two worn by my sister and me. I can see us, just little girls fresh from the bath and ready to be put to bed with a storybook. There’s a brown and orange silk swatch that I recognize from a blouse Nan wore in 1970s photos. The blue plaid crimp knit scrap, I’m fairly certain, came from pants once worn by Mom. Other pieces bring to mind images of Nan in the kitchen at the stove, on the hill picking berries, playing Scrabble at the dining room table, out in the driveway welcoming her crowd home. I recognize all the fabric clippings for what they once were – blouses, skirts, slacks, much of it handmade by Nan in the first place. Going over these swatches is like flipping through a photo album in my mind, the pictures are so clear. These patchwork quilts have given me such comfort – warmth for both body and soul – wherever I’ve lived since leaving home. I was compelled to pull them out and wrap myself in these memories by Hilda Chaulk Murray’s essay, “The Nature of Quilts” (p. 88). Quilting is more of a beautiful hobby today, whereas years ago it was a survival skill being able to turn something worn out and old into something new and lasting. A surprising number of traditional crafts and skills, once needed to survive here, are in danger of being lost to time. Read what Nicola Ryan learned about that in “Use Them or Lose Them” on p. 48. Do you have quilts or other family heirlooms that tell a story? I’d love to read your stories and see your photos. You know where to find me! Thanks for reading, Janice Stuckless, Editor-in-chief
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On the 40th anniversary of its sinking on a stormy February night, Lloyd Major thinks about his days aboard the Ocean Ranger and the co-workers who were lost.
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of oil exploration in Newfoundland and offshore drilling that created a new employment opportunity for me. The Ocean Ranger came to our waters to join the rigs Zapata Ugland and Sedco 706 that were also hired by Mobil Oil to drill oil exploration wells on the Grand Banks. To my knowledge, a certain quota of Newfoundlanders had to be hired by the half-dozen companies whose employees worked in rotation. The Ocean Ranger was the first rig in the area to have a woman as staff onboard. She was a geologist from Mobil Oil in Calgary. I was hired as a medic and radio operator/timekeeper in November 1980. In a few days, I was off to the Ocean Ranger with no helicopter safety training, nor any other rig training. Most of the new hires had no experience working on an offshore oil rig, so training was essential and was completed on the rig. We usually had 80-90 workers on board and we tried to maintain a comfortable work environment. We worked 21 twelve-hour days on the rig and 21 days off, so our co-workers were like a second family in our lives. Left and above: Lloyd Major onboard the Ocean Ranger www.downhomelife.com
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Scenes of everyday life on the Ocean Ranger
The first few trips resulted in many Newfoundlanders – first-time rig workers – finding themselves unwilling to take on the mental stress of the isolation in this new environment, particularly the married men. Stress contributed to more than one accident. However, most people became comfortable with their new jobs after a few rotations. The living quarters were excellent, as was the food. Everything on the rig was kept scrupulously clean. Our 21-day hitch started in St. John’s, staying the night before at the Fort Motel. I picked up the men who were flying in – mostly from the US – in time to helicopter out with us to the rig the following day. That night most of us would go out on the town for a few refreshments. The rig itself was a dry rig – no alcohol or 58
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drugs permitted. If an employee was found to be in possession of either, he was immediately dismissed. We wore orange suits in the helicopter, but I would not call them survival suits. The two-hour flight was the most dangerous part of the shift – or so I thought. Once we landed on the rig, most of us went to work at 6 p.m. that very day. I worked 42 days straight on my first trip until my relief medic, Ken Blackmore, was hired and sent to the rig. This allowed enough time for me to set up the hospital and order the proper supplies. My hours of work were from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the radio room as radio operator. I also recorded all work times for employees of ODECO, the subcontractor overseeing operations. I was the liaison between the 1-888-588-6353
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Newfoundland employees and the company. As a medic, I was on call 24 hours a day and had telephone access to a doctor in St. John’s. In case of emergency, a stand-by supply boat was available to assist with transport. The six-bed hospital on the Ocean Ranger had an ample supply of medications, mainly to treat the common cold and flu, and there was lots of room to treat accident victims. We had a few cases that remained in the rig hospital. One man had galvanize poisoning while welding; another had a very bad arm infection. We had an eye injury that had to be medevaced to St John’s; I escorted that case on the helicopter. One of the
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worst was an accident where a man lost three fingers off one hand – only his forefinger and thumb remained. The helicopter could not get through for a couple of days due to the frequent fog, so I escorted him to St John’s on the standby supply boat for the more than 12-hour trip. It was a rough trip for him. There was also the case of an employee who jumped off the rig. My friend from Florida, Warren Abadie, was the safety officer involved in the search along with the RCMP, but the man’s body was never found. On the lighter side, one morning at about 2 a.m., crane operator Martin Blackmore brought a seagull with a broken leg to the hospital. The bird
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had hit the tag line of his crane. I fixed the leg and released the bird at daybreak. Next day I was awakened and summoned to the radio room for a call from head office in New Orleans. They wanted to know if I was running an animal hospital on the rig. They got an earful from me; I got an apology and went back to bed. What a joke. We had safety meetings every Sunday, and I attended to help the safety officer. Mike Watkins was the last safety officer on board and would be among those who went down with the rig on that fateful night in February 1982. I remember one safety meeting where an employee was causing a disturbance in the back of the room. Randall Ferguson stood up and pointed the only finger he had on his right hand and said, “If it floats, it can sink, so don’t be an idiot!” The ballast control room was in 60
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column three. This is where the porthole was located that was smashed that awful night. Sea water got on the controls and was a major cause of the sinking of the rig, in my opinion. On the Christmas before the tragedy, the control room operator and I wrote a poem to Kent Thompson, the tool pusher. Verse 11, I’ll never forget: “And don’t forget those lonely souls in starboard column three. They keep y’all from waking up in the cold Atlantic sea.” On February 15, 1982, I woke early at home in Dunville and heard on the radio that the Ocean Ranger was in trouble. At that moment, I had a bad feeling that the rig was not only in trouble, but was going down. I was summoned by the company to St. John’s immediately. Upon arrival I found panic in the office. The phones were ringing non-stop with calls from families scared for their loved 1-888-588-6353
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ones. As the news spread that the rig had sunk, people rushed to the office desperate for news. The horrific and gruesome ordeal began. I spent the next few days on the waterfront with other company representatives doing the preliminary identification of the bodies that were brought ashore by the supply boats. That night, another ship sank in the 100-foot waves. Their bodies were brought to the wharf as well, so we had to separate those bodies from ours. There were 84 persons on the Ocean Ranger that night; all were drowned, but only 23 victims were ever found. Of those, 18 were Newfoundlanders, three were American citizens and two were from Alberta. My relief, Ken Blackmore, was one of the first victims found, and I did the positive identification of him. Jim Coutts and I went to Norris Arm for the funeral. This was the first www.downhomelife.com
time I met his wife and introduced myself. Not a good feeling. After the funeral, Jim and I returned to the office and continued the muchneeded communications with other families. In October of that year, I was summoned to the inquiry by the provincial government commission under chairman Alex Hickman. I was questioned by a huge panel of lawyers representing many companies and by the commissioners. Being questioned at any inquiry can be stressful and, believe me, it was. After 40 years, I still remember the good days working on the Ocean Ranger. But I will never forget the faces of the men who lost their lives in that cold Atlantic sea. February 2022
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30 years ago I went to see some Nova Scotian quilts on display at the Arts and Culture Centre. These truly were works of art and I admired them greatly, but I couldn’t help thinking: these are not representative of the quilts of yesterday, made and used by most Nova Scotian families whose breadwinner was engaged in fishing, farming or mining. Knowing several quilters, I’m aware that it requires a great deal of skill and time to produce one of these beautiful quilts. I imagine spare time was a scarce commodity in most households years ago. Simply put, today’s quilts would have taken far too long to make and would not have been practical for everyday use. I was born during the Depression in Elliston, NL. My father was a fisherman; my mother, a teacher (a profession she had to give up once she married). Even though ours was a relatively small family – three children – she could not have spared the hours needed to piece together the many tiny pieces of fabric used in some of today’s quilt patterns. I was told that before marriage she did lots of crocheting, tatting and embroidery. I don’t recall her doing these crafts when I was a child. I recall her knitting, mending and darning, but I never saw her use a crochet hook. www.downhomelife.com
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During the winter, when there was a lull in outside work, quilt-making and mat-hooking took place in Elliston. During the 1930s and ’40s, many fisherman husbands worked away in the lumberwoods in Central Newfoundland during the winter. Back in 1995, my friend Mary Jane Porter, then 85, told me that when their husbands were away, she and her sisterin-law would live in the same house. They worked on quilts together. They’d baste the quilt pieces onto the backing laid on the kitchen floor. Then they’d sew them in place with the sewing machine.
the pound; another source was doorto-door peddlers. Some of the quilts in our house were very thick; others were lightweight. The latter, summer quilts, had a cotton or flour-sack backing and patches were sewn on just one side. The heavier ones had patches sewn to both sides of the backing (often a worn-out flannelette sheet) and some had patches sewn on patches! If they had big pieces of material to work with, they used big pieces; they did not have time to indulge in a make-work program and would not cut their material into tiny pieces on
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purpose. They made use of everything available. Mary Jane once made a quilt using discarded drapes on the top side! Washing such a quilt was very difficult and wringing it out required two sets of hands. It was too heavy to hang on the clothesline, so it had to be hung on the backyard fence to dry. 1-888-588-6353
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I don’t remember my mother making a quilt, but I remember her using pieces of material from old family clothing to repair the ones we had. And she used bleached flour sacks in other ways – for pillow slips, tablecloths, pudding cloths etc. If flour sacks were used for the backing or lining, homemakers made sure that all the lettering was removed. I recall how Mother bleached them. She put a big iron pot of water on the kitchen stove. Added to the water was Gillett’s Lye, which was very caustic. The sacks were boiled in this, for how long I’ve forgotten. The pot was taken from the stove and laid on the ground in the backyard. I remember Mother hooking each piece out of the pot with a long stick, dumping the lye solution into the drain and refilling the pot with fresh water from the well, then rinsing the sacks over and over in fresh water until all traces of lye had been soaked from the sacks. They were then hung to dry, white as the driven snow. I have a number of old quilts, dating
from the early 1900s, before my two aunts (both talented seamstresses) went away to the States. One wellused quilt features a beautiful purple section with the portraits of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria; I recall one of the beautiful Nova Scotian quilts had the same patch. What was the source of that special piece? Was it bought at the same time as the Nova Scotian piece? Another quilt was a wedding gift (in 1960) from my Aunt Helen in West Allis, Wisconsin; it is still being used in Maberly, although the cotton used in the lovely design did not stand up to repeated washes. I do have one new-fangled quilt – a beautiful one in shades of blue that graces the bed in our guestroom. It was a gift from my dear friend, Myrtle Baird Dunham, a skilful quilter, weaver and knitter. Of one thing I’m certain. Skillful women in Newfoundland and Labrador, who had the inclination and the time to devote to sewing, must have produced quilts to rival those from Nova Scotia. We just don’t know about them. Correction: I don’t!
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On Poppy’s Beach - Susan Pynn Taylor
#50989 | $12.95
Catching Dreams Shirley Montague, Artwork by Heather Smith-Shave
At Nanny’s House - Susan Pynn Taylor #56398 | $12.95
Maggie and Hero - Margaret O’Brien #33660 | $13.95
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#43105 | $10.95
#47033 | $10.95
Downhome Four-Way Crosswords - Ron Young #54058 | $6.95
Downhome Laughing Matters - Ron Young #46852 | $14.95
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#49315 | $8.95
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GREAT GIFT IDEAS! Sherpa Blankets 50" x 60"
Newfoundland Map #75516 | $39.95
Newfoundland Tartan #75517 | $39.95
Newfoundland Sayings #77814 | $39.95
NL Flag Placenames #75516 | $39.95
Tea Towel: Newfoundland Kitchen Sayings - Waffle Cotton #65130 | $6.95
Tea Towel: Moose - Waffle Cotton #65083 | $6.95
Musical Mummers #75515 | $39.95
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Purity Kisses
Purity Candy Barrels #49556 | $4.95
Peanut Butter #4010 • Assorted #13997 • Rum and Butter #16805
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Purity Climax Mixture Candy Nobs #79610 | $4.95
Purity Peppermint Nobs #4238 | $4.95
Newfoundland Seasonings Ragin' Bayman Spicy BBQ #79465 • Moose Spice #77375 Steak & Burger #77377
Purity Gift Box #78550 | $21.99
Purity Assorted Goodie Box #79290 | $52.99
$7.99 each
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Bud marvels at the snowy weather of his first winter. Dominique Andrews Labrador City, NL
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