Bishop, Hazel 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18
Bishop Jack 196
Bishop, James 12, 15
Bishop, John 3-18, 117, 183, 192
Bishop, Lloyd 196, 197
Bishop, Noah 195, 196
Bishop, Wilfred 12, 15
Black Sea 149
Blackhead 118
Blackmore, Billy 70
Blackmore, David 223
Blackmore, Jessie 254
Blackmore, Mary (Sturge) 221-226, 232-235, 239-242, 246, 247, 253-255
Blackwood, Bert 78
Blackwood, Emily 76-78, 83, 85-87, 89, 90
Blackwood, Henry 74
Blackwood, Martin 75, 76, 79-81, 83, 84, 86-90
Blackwood, Martin, Jr. 76
Blackwood, R. A. 78
Bloomfield 24, 25
Boland, Garfield 57, 66, 69
Bonavista 10, 128
Bonavista Bay 5, 10, 11, 14, 15, 24, 49, 69, 76, 86, 115, 117, 118, 130, 145, 151, 165-167, 186, 193, 195, 196, 207, 223, 229, 239
Bonavista North 122, 186, 192
Bosporus 149
Bourne River 185
Bourne, Stephen 14, 15
Bowaters 54
Bowring 10
British Army 134
British Isles 107, 108, 126, 141, 251
Brookfield 76, 167
Brothers, Clifford 225, 246
Brothers, Dora 225
Bungay, Keith 254
Burgess, Captain 174-177
Burin 200, 201
Burin Peninsula 93, 96
Burry, Herbert 60, 68
Burry, Lewis 59
Byrd, Richard 221
Cabot Island 229
Cairmona 140
Canary Current 187, 251
Canary Islands 187, 251
Cape Bauld 115
Cape Bonavista 9, 118, 138, 167
Cape Clear, Ireland 33
Cape Freels 21, 24, 75, 165
Cape Harrison 210
Cape Pine 115
Cape Race 17, 37, 178, 188, 200
Cape Rouge 224
Cape St. Francis 9, 28, 57, 118, 119, 142, 207
Cape St. John 21, 75
Cape Spear 18, 56, 84, 142
Cartier, Jacques 223
Catalina 10, 57, 58, 118, 119, 128, 193, 239
Catherine B. 91-112, 207, 212
Cedric 243, 244
Celtic Sea 250
Chandlers Reach 24
Christchurch, England 185
Church of England 184, 225
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne 188, 189
Coaker, William Ford 53, 54
Colonial and Continental School Society 186
Conception Bay 12, 28, 29, 57, 58, 98, 118, 133, 207
Corner Brook 54
Cutler, Aubrey 120, 137
Cutler, Fred 119, 132-135
D. M. Owen 195
Daghild 214, 215
Daily News 138
Dardanelles 149, 150
Dark Cove 151
Davis, Evan 32, 38
Davis, George 253
Davis, Susie 253, 254
Deer Islands 124
Deer Lake 54
Denmark 238, 249
Easton, Peter xii
Ebble River 185
Edwards, Henrietta Muir 220
Effie May Petite 163-179
Egypt 149, 150
Elliston 138, 239
England 23, 32, 33, 38, 54, 63, 74, 149, 150, 183, 184, 186, 212, 225, 250, 252, 254
English Channel 33, 108, 185, 248, 250
English Harbour 172
Europe xiii, 22, 23, 29, 40, 73, 74, 102, 149-151, 183, 223
Eurylus 74
Exploits Island 75
Exploits River 54, 75
Fair Island 115-117, 122-124, 128, 130, 138, 186
Fair Island Tickle 123, 124
Famous Five 220, 221
Farnorth 178, 179
First Newfoundland Regiment 134, 150
Flagstaff Hill 118
Flowers Island 165, 166
Fogo 23
Foote, Thomas 13
Fort Amherst 11, 17, 166
Fortune Bay 13, 195
France xii, 73, 74, 134, 135
Francis, Freeman 97-100
Freshwater Point 178
Funk Islands 22
Furneaux, Captain 141, 142
Gallipoli 149, 150
Gambo 27, 151, 253, 254
Gander Deal 51-70, 239, 245-247
Gander River 54
Gaulton, Edward 166
Gaulton, Nathan 11, 12
Gaulton, Roland 166, 169, 171
George K. 108, 143-161
George Knowling Ltd. 145
German Army 135
Germany 64, 65, 108, 150, 183
Gill, Edward 252
Gill, Jesse 61-63
Gill, Sophie 222, 253, 255
Glovertown 145, 148
God Head Bay 29, 30, 119
Goose Bay 24
Grand Bank 13
Grand Banks 38-40, 125, 188, 207, 220, 251
Grand Lake 54
Grates Cove Point 29, 58, 99, 207
Great Northern Peninsula 223
Green Island, 58, 118, 119
Green, Charlie 97
Green, Frank 148-151, 153, 156, 159, 161
Green, Joseph 166
Greenspond 148, 151, 186, 231
Grey Islands 223, 225, 233, 246
Grey Islands Harbour 224, 225
Groais Island 224
Groais Islands Harbour 223
Groswater Bay 209
Gulf of Mexico 40, 186, 187, 190, 251
Gulf of St. Lawrence 211
Gulf Stream 40, 102, 186-188, 199, 243
Hadow, A. L. 150
Halifax, Nova Scotia 49, 151, 161
Halloway, Carty 25, 30, 31, 37, 42, 43, 46
Hanover, Germany 183
Hant’s Harbour 95, 98, 103
Happy Adventure 195
Hare Bay 151
Harland and Wolff 32, 64
Harvey, James 78
Hebrides 126, 250
Helena 25
Hesperus 6, 252
Hillier, Jonas 78
Hillview 11, 208, 211, 212
Hoboken, New Jersey 64, 69
Hodge, John 23
Holplein 106-112, 158
Holyhead, Wales 32
Home 69
Hounsell, Cater 69
Hounsell, Fred 118, 120, 131, 132
Howell, Len 254
Hoyles, John 166
Hudson River 69
Hugh D. 18, 215
Humber Deal 54
Humber River 54
Humphries, Esther (Carter) 226-232, 235-238, 242-245, 248, 249, 251-254
Humphries, Peter 228-230, 236, 238, 242, 244, 245, 248-254
Imo 151
Imperialist 161
Indian Harbour 209
Ireland 32, 33, 64, 126, 150, 183
Ireland’s Eye 58
Irish Sea 32, 64
Isle of Tiree 250
Janes, Ellis 95, 97, 99, 100, 105, 110, 212
Janie E. Blackwood 10-12, 16, 113-142, 152
Jennie Florence 11, 203-215
June, Harold 221
Kean, Abner
166
Kean, Abram 166, 171
Kean, Charles 166-168, 171, 172, 175, 177, 178
Kean, Doris 166, 170, 178, 179
Kean, Lydia 166, 170, 178
Kean, Noah 198-200
Kean’s Island 165
Kelloway, Frances 77, 78, 83, 87
Kelloway, Simon 78, 83
Kennas Hill 234
King, William Lyon Mackenzie 220
Labrador 25, 26, 55, 57, 75, 76, 88, 97, 123, 125, 126, 128, 130, 131, 136, 171, 189, 200, 208-211, 224, 226, 256
Labrador Current 40
Labrador Tan 97, 208, 211
LaHave, Nova Scotia 195
Laurentic 150
Liberal Reform Party 53
Liverpool, England 32, 63, 252, 254
Lloyd Jack 181-201
Lockers Reach 124
Loder, James 97
Logy Bay 213
Lough Swilly, Ireland 150
Manhattan, New York City 69
Manuel, Chesley 76
Manuel, Jabez 75
Manuel, Josiah 75
McClung, Nellie 220
McKinley, Ashley 221
McKinney, Louise 220
Mediterranean Sea x, 149, 150
Meigle 173-178
Merry Widow 71-90
Middle Brook 151
Middle Sea 73, 149, 256
Millie Ford 25
Mississippi River 187-189
Mont Blanc 151
Morgan, J. P. 64
Morton, J. P. 65
Murphy, Emily 220
Musgrave Channel 64
Musgrave Harbour 21
Nabbeb River 185
National Sea 161
Nelson, Horatio 74, 75
Neptune II 56, 57, 153, 154, 166, 191, 192, 217-254
New York 32, 33, 48, 49, 63, 65, 69, 220
New York City, New York 33, 48, 63, 65, 69
Newman Sound 195
Newport 123
Newtown 24, 54-56, 69, 70, 191, 192, 223, 224, 226, 229, 231-236, 239, 243, 245, 252-255
Norfolk, Virginia 65
Norman, John 252
Norris, Theodore 166
Norris, William 252
North Atlantic Drift 188, 251
North Channel 32, 64
North Pole 135
Northern Light 19-50
Northwest Arm 211
Norway 187, 251
Notre Dame Bay 21, 23, 75, 195
Nova Scotia 141, 142, 252
Odessa, Ukraine 150
Ottoman Empire 149, 150
Outer Cove 213
Parlby, Irene 220
Parsons, Edgar 24, 25
Parsons, Peter 25, 30, 31, 34, 36, 41, 42, 47
Parsons, Rex 25, 31, 34-37, 40, 41, 47, 48
Parsons, Thomas 24-29, 31, 34-37, 41-43, 45-49
Perry, James 63, 67, 68
Petite, Jeremiah 172
Pickett, Aaron 166
Pinchard’s Island 24, 60, 66, 69, 186, 245, 254
Pitt Sound Reach 124
Placentia Bay 30
Point May 94
Pond Island 149
Pond Tickle 151
Port au Bras 94
Port Union 54, 117, 128, 130
Pouch Cove 118
Pound Cove 69
President Grant 64, 65
Quirpon Island 115
Random Island 58
Red Ensign 79, 81, 84, 90, 140
Redoubtable 74
Republic 63-69
Rheinewaldham Glacier 107
Rhine River 107
Rogers, Charles 10, 11, 116-119, 122-124, 128, 130-132, 136-140, 142, 255
Rogers, Ethel 129
Rogers, Hannah 128-130, 138, 139
Rogers, John K. 119, 122
Rogers, Lester 129
Rogers, Ronald 129
Roman Catholic 225
Roman Empire 73, 149
Rotterdam, Holland 107
Royal Naval Reserves 148
Russell, Richard “Dick” 25, 36
Russia 149, 150
S. Short and Sons 100
Safe Harbour 14, 130
Sahara Desert 187
Sainsbury, William 63
St. George’s Channel 33
St. Jacques 195
St. John’s ix, xii, xvi, 6, 9-11, 15, 18, 25, 28, 45, 49, 50, 56-58, 67, 69, 76, 77, 80, 84, 86, 95, 96, 99, 100, 108, 111, 117, 118, 122-124, 126, 128, 134, 135, 137, 138, 140-142, 151, 153, 154, 159, 166, 168, 171, 172, 176, 179, 183, 187, 191, 193, 207, 208, 211, 212, 215, 229, 232-239, 250, 252, 253
St. John’s Narrows 96, 154, 212, 215
St. John’s Notch xi, 10, 11, 28, 96, 118, 142, 152, 153, 215, 237
St. John’s Road 134, 135
St. Pierre and Miquelon 94, 189
Salisbury, England 183-186
Salvation Army 97
Schapp, Captain 107-109, 111, 112
Scilly Isles 126, 185, 245, 248-251
Scott, Walter 250
Sea of Marmara 149
Seldom Come By 23
Servian 64
Sevastopol, Ukraine 150
Seven Years’ War 21
Shamblers Cove 151
Shelburne, Nova Scotia 13, 172
Short, Fred 97, 100, 110, 111
Short, Wesley 97, 99, 107
Short, Wilbert 97
Siberia 65
Signal Hill 11
Silver Fox Island 123
Silvia 49, 69
Skerryvore Rock 250, 251
Smallwood, Joseph Roberts 27
Smith, Edward 32
Smokey 209
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts 186
South America 30, 239
South Pole 206, 221
Southwest Arm 208, 209, 211
Spanish flu 35
Spanish Main xi, xii
Squires, Richard 27, 53, 54
Stevenson, Alan 250, 251
Stevenson, Robert Louis 250
Stockley, Ephraim 78, 84
Stockley, Norman 12
Stonehenge 184
Stoyles, James 208
Stoyles, Ned 208
Stoyles, Wilson 207-210
Straight Shore 21
Strait of Belle Isle 211
Strickland, Frank 97
Sturge, Ethel 241
Sturge, Richard 196
Sturge, Sophie 235
Sturge, William 166
Sturge’s Island 165
Sugar Loaf Head 11, 118, 213
Swain’s Island 186
Sydney, Nova Scotia 214
Syria 149
Thames 33
Titanic 32, 39, 48
Tobermory, Scotland 252, 254
Torbay 28, 118
Trepassey Bay 178
Trieste 65
Trinity 151, 212
Trinity Bay 9-11, 29, 30, 54, 55, 57, 58, 75, 95, 98, 103, 117-119, 167, 172, 193, 207-209, 211, 212
Turkey 149, 150
Twain, Mark 188, 189
Union Jack 79, 199
Union Shipbuilding Company 54
United Kingdom 27
United Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) 65
United States 9, 33, 63, 65, 221, 233
United States Army 65
United States Line 65
Victory 74
Walker, Third Of
ficer 46
Water Sprite 1-18, 117, 118, 124, 152, 183, 192, 246
Water Street 26, 98
Wesleyville 4, 9, 10, 69, 165, 183, 191, 192, 195, 201
White Bay 223
White Star Line 32, 38
White, Samuel 78, 84
Whiteinch, Scotland 173
Wicks, Israel 12, 15
Wilson and Furness-Leyland Line 64
Wiltshire, England 185
Windsor, Billy 80, 82-85, 88
Windsor, George 6, 7, 12
Wiseman, Fred 25, 30, 31, 34, 37
World War I 35, 54, 148, 149, 151
Wyle River 185
Yetman, George 253
Yetman, Joseph 221, 253
Yetman, Lloyd 253
Yetman, Pearl 221, 253
ALSO BY GARY COLLINS
In November of 1954, a terrible storm darkened the skies above Cabot Island and battered its solitary lighthouse with a single-minded fury. The keepers of the Cabot Island light were no strangers to sea weather, but when tragedy struck the brothers Gill, the younger of the two was left to fend for himself amid one of the worst storms in Newfoundland’s history. Cabot Island is a true story of the love between two brothers, a love that perseveres in the face of death, loss, and greatest personal challenge.
The Last Farewell tells the true story of a crew of logger-sailors who left their home port of Hare Bay aboard a two-masted schooner in early June of 1934. Along her route to St. John’s, the crew of the Ethel Collett tell each other stories of life and death on the sea. But little do they know that they are heading toward one of the most astonishing tales of them all: their own.
In the summer of 2008, writer Gary Collins teamed up with Allan Keats, a great-grandson of legendary Mi’kmaq prospector Soulis Joe, and they set out to unearth the secret of Soulis Joe’s lost silver mine. After many weeks and months spent combing the island of Newfoundland, Gary Collins figured it out. Come along for the trip and discover the location of Soulis Joe’s Lost Mine. (Canadian Aboriginal Books for Schools 2010–2011 Selection)
Where Eagles Lie Fallen is Gary Collins’s solemn tribute to the American servicemen and servicewomen who lost their lives aboard Arrow Air Flight 1285 when it crashed in Gander, Newfoundland, on December 12, 1985. Eyewitnesses to the tragedy and the surviving loved ones of the lost American soldiers reveal for the first time the profound effect this event had on them, and how it still affects them today.
In researching the life and times of Mattie Mitchell: Newfoundland’s Greatest Frontiersman, critically acclaimed author Gary Collins gleaned much insight on his subject from the diary and other personal papers of Marie Sparkes, granddaughter to the remarkable Mi’kmaq woodsman. Now, for the first time, Mattie Mitchell’s legendary deeds are revealed in full, comprehensive detail.
Author Gary Collins has earned a seat at the head of the table as Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller. Now the “Story Man” from Hare Bay is ready to tell you a little bit about himself. The tales that make up A Day on the Ridge are taken from diary entries he recorded during the forty years he spent as a woodsman. Beginning with his childhood, Gary Collins retraces his first steps as a boy growing up in Bonavista North in the 1950s, when his father taught him the skills of an outdoorsman and how to be a leader among men.