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Gary Collins was born in a small, two-storey house by the sea in the town of Hare Bay, Bonavista North. He finished school at Brown Memorial High in the same town. He spent forty years in the logging and sawmilling business with his father, Theophilus, and son Clint. Gary was once Newfoundland’s youngest fisheries guardian. He managed log drives down spring rivers for years, spent seven seasons driving tractor-trailers over ice roads on the Beaufort Sea of Canada’s Western Arctic, and has been involved in the crab, lobster, and cod commercial fisheries.
Gary’s writing career began when he was asked to write eulogies for deceased friends and family. Now a critically acclaimed author, he has written nine books, including the children’s illustrated book What Colour is the Ocean?, which he co-wrote with his granddaughter, Maggie Rose Parsons. That book won an Atlantic Book Award: The Lillian Shepherd Memorial Award for Excellence in Illustration. His book Mattie Mitchell: Newfoundland’s Greatest Frontiersman has been adapted for film.
Gary Collins is Newfoundland and Labrador’s favourite storyteller, and today he is known all over the province as “the Story Man.” His favourite pastimes are reading, writing, and playing guitar at his log cabin. He lives in Hare Bay, Newfoundland, with his wife, the former Rose Gill. They have three children and three grandchildren.
INDEX
Adventure 308
Africa 181
Akpatok Island 41
Amundsen, Roald Engelbregt Gravning 242
Anderson, John 85
Andrews, Stanley 300
Anguille Mountains 241
Antarctic 242
Antle, John 89, 90, 95-98, 105, 106, 120-123, 127, 140, 189, 200, 201, 227
Appalachian Mountains 71
Arctic 21, 40, 41, 45, 55, 57, 68-71, 93, 94, 101, 107, 112, 136, 251, 279, 283, 302, 310
Arctic 93
Arendal, Norway 241
Atlantic engine 28
Atlantic Ocean 26, 36, 42, 44, 46, 49, 64, 66, 70-72, 78, 85, 87, 128, 137, 179, 180, 291
Aurora 116, 192
Baccalieu Island 190, 194, 307, 317
Baffin Bay 41
Baffin Current 42
Baffin Island 93, 94
Baine Johnston and Company 191, 229
Baldwin, Peter 85
Banks Island 93
Barbour, George 117, 191-194
Barbour, Sam 118
Barbour’s Tickle 56
Barents Sea 87
Basque 72
Battle Harbour 70, 71
Bay de Verde 194
Bay of Fundy 202
Bay of God’s Mercy 93
Bay Roberts 120, 231, 273, 319
Beaufort, Francis 105
Beaufort scale 105
Beaufort Sea 93
Bellaventure 273-276, 298-308, 323
Belle Isle 71, 72
Beothic 93, 178, 307, 309
Beothuk 135, 136
Best, Abram 254
Bird Island Cove 43
Black River 129
Bonaventure 197, 232, 276, 303
Bonavista 101, 120, 189, 190, 200, 261, 291, 300, 306, 309, 319
Bonavista Bay 23, 43, 52, 62, 75, 108, 113, 116, 139, 205, 228-230, 235, 255, 311, 317
Bonavista North 106, 287
Bonavista Peninsula 116
Borchgrevink, C. E. 242
Bowring Brothers 103, 188
Branchy Rock 113
Brigus 242
Britannia 90, 129
British Admiralty 90
British Empire 90
Brookfield 163, 228, 255
Brooklyn 13
Brown, Cassie 18, 19
Brown, Robert 109
Bungay, Jacob 120, 236, 245, 300
Butchers Cove 75
Button Island 70
Cabot Island 117, 118
Canada 13, 41, 85, 93, 202
Cape Bauld 43, 70
Cape Bonavista 43, 113, 178, 189, 194, 233, 263, 282
Cape Breton 43, 202
Cape Freels 51, 108, 111, 121, 130, 135, 309
Cape Hatteras 42
Cape Kakkiviak 41
Cape Norman 70
Cape North 42, 49, 202
Cape Onion 70
Cape Pine 43, 243
Cape Ray 241, 242
Cape Sable 202
Cape St. Francis 195
Cape Verde Islands 181
Carbonear 253, 259, 300, 306
Carpenter, George 293
Cartier, Jacques 136
Catalina 78, 121, 122, 316
Cat Harbour 306
Charleston 85
Chaulk, Delilah 122, 316
Chaulk, Theophilus “Theo” “Offie” 121, 122, 140, 201, 206, 234, 266, 279-282, 292, 293, 304, 316
Chesapeake Bay 201
Christianity 12, 22, 41, 324
Christmas 53, 56-60, 62, 64, 257
Church of England 23
Clarenville 11, 78, 101
Clarke, George 242, 243
Collins, Alice 17
Collins, Fred 109, 110, 231, 287
Collins, Jesse 16, 17, 23, 24, 26-28, 30-35, 37, 38, 59, 109, 110, 150, 185, 187, 190, 205, 206, 231, 233, 237, 256, 257, 266-268, 276, 279, 286, 287, 292, 299, 319, 322
Collins, Pearl 322
Collins, Rose (Gill) 11, 15, 16, 315, 316
Conception Bay 242, 317
Connors, Thomas J. 243
Conway, Ambrose 252, 253
Cook’s Harbour 70
Cooper, Tobias “Tobe” 205, 206, 226, 261, 262
Cornwall 129
Cranford, Garry
18
Cranford, Jerry 18
Cranford, Margo 18
Crewe, Albert John 45-48, 60, 61, 101-103, 106, 126, 127, 141, 161, 162, 167, 171, 189, 206, 234, 237, 262-265, 282, 284-286, 295, 304
Crewe, Benjamin “Ben” 46, 47
Crewe, Mary 45, 47, 48, 60, 61, 161, 171, 190, 264, 282-284, 286
Crewe, Reuben 45-48, 60, 61, 101, 161, 166-169, 171, 172, 190, 205, 206, 234, 237, 262-265, 282, 284-286, 295, 304
Crystal Crown stove 126
Cuba 85
Cuff, Daniel 124
Dalton, Jacob “Jake” 122, 123, 150, 201, 206, 234, 239, 266, 279-282, 285, 286, 290, 292, 293, 302, 316
Dawson, Thomas 120, 219, 231, 235-240, 244, 319
Death on the Ice 18, 19
Defoe, Daniel 105
Diana 137, 308
Doting Cove 13, 51, 52, 61, 108, 124, 126, 127, 267-269
Dover 75
Dowding, Henry “Harry” 54, 274, 275, 306
Dundee Shipbuilding Company 118
Eagle 109, 115-117, 119, 308
Easton, Job 35, 237, 291
Eclipse Sound 94
Ellesmere Island 41
Elliston 43, 44, 47, 49, 59, 78, 101, 122, 126, 234, 241, 282, 284, 295, 297, 303, 309
Ellis, William 43
England 88, 129
Escape Point 135
Europe 36, 41, 43, 64, 72, 87, 88, 136, 180, 229
Evans, William “Bill” 261
Exploits River 51
Fair Island 109, 110, 313
Farquhar, James Augustus 85
Flanker Press 18
Florizel 103, 121, 128, 177-179, 183, 188, 197, 232, 252, 254, 303, 306
Flowers Island 118, 119, 141, 229
Fogo 119, 120, 122
Fogo Island 119-121, 194
Foxe Basin 41
France 72, 243
Funk Island 130, 135-137, 139, 166, 178, 183, 189
Gambo 75, 77, 78
Gaulton, Garland 255, 256
Golden Glow flour 84
Gooseberry Islands 113
Goulds 291
Graham, Billy 149, 325
Grand Banks 42
Green Bay 139
Green, Charles W. 90-94, 105, 112, 113, 116, 118, 120, 121, 142, 174, 182-184, 186, 226, 227, 248, 249, 298, 299, 305, 308, 317
Greenland 41, 42, 87, 93, 180
Greenland 56, 116, 117, 166, 172, 191-195, 237, 239, 292, 306
Greenspond 28, 30, 33-36, 78, 82, 83, 114, 117, 237, 291, 297, 301
Greenspond Island 33
Greenspond Tickle 110
Gulf of Mexico 42, 180
Gulf of St. Lawrence 42, 46, 49, 70-72, 89, 167, 241, 242
Hannie and Bennie 229
“Hard Times” 172
Hare Bay 12, 16-18, 52, 62, 75-77, 325
Harlaw 101, 167-170, 263, 284, 323
Harry’s Ground 113
Harvey, Alick J. 129
Harvey and Company 37, 86, 91, 104, 129, 130, 218, 243, 307, 309
Hatton Headland 70
Hearn, Patrick 303
Hebron 70
Hiscock, John 300
Hispaniola 181
Holloway, Joshua 28, 30, 31, 34, 109, 110, 206, 231, 233, 234, 287, 288, 316
Holloway, Maryann 58, 59
Holloway, Phillip “Phil” 23-25, 28-32, 34-38, 58, 59, 109, 110, 163-165, 206, 231, 286, 287, 306
Horwood, Samuel 253-255
Hounsell, John 311-314
Howell, James 54, 56, 306
Howell, Mark 56
Howlett, John J. 291
Hudson’s Bay 41
Hudson Strait 41
Îles de la Madeleine (Magdeline Islands) 42, 49, 167, 202
Indian Gulch 135
Inuit 87
Ireland 44, 191
Janes, Robert 93, 94
Jellyfish Cove 72
Jensen, Bernard 242
Jones, Sidney “Sid” 120, 245, 274-276
Jordon, Henry 306
Jordon, Stephen 259, 261, 262, 300
Jordon, Thomas “Tom” 257, 259
Kane Basin 41
Kean, Abram “Abe” 35, 37, 54, 55, 90, 92, 103, 116, 119, 127, 151, 174, 176-179, 183, 187-189, 192, 194, 195, 200, 206, 228, 229, 231, 234, 237, 239, 240, 252, 254, 255, 259, 260, 276, 281, 286, 292, 298, 300, 301, 303, 306, 311-314, 316-321, 324
Kean, Eli 303
Kean, Joseph “Joe” 103, 121, 128, 155, 178, 179
Kean, Samuel 255
Kean’s Island 119
Kean, Westbury “Wes” 37-39, 54, 55, 59, 83, 90-92, 95, 98, 103, 104, 107, 110, 112-114, 116, 118-122, 128, 130, 133, 139, 152, 155, 173, 174, 176-179, 183, 184, 186, 189, 190, 197, 200, 201, 206, 225-228, 230, 231, 240, 246, 248, 249, 262, 297, 300, 301, 306, 320, 321, 324
Keels, John 309
Kikkertavak Island 41
King George V 90
Kite 93
Labrador 70, 71, 80, 191, 317
Labrador Current 42, 71, 72, 180
Labrador Sea 41, 42, 70, 71
Lamb, Peter 88, 89, 94, 95, 127, 141, 172, 189, 266, 304
Lancaster 200, 239
Lancaster Sound 41
Landing Rock 135
L’Anse aux Meadows 72
Little Cabot Island 117
Little Catalina 121, 122, 150, 234, 282, 293, 297, 303, 316, 323
Locke, David 306
Lundrigan, John 89, 95, 127
Marconi, Guglielmo 129
Martin, Charlie 295
Martin, William J. “Bill” 251, 252
McCarthy, Richard 259
McClure Sound 93
Melindy, Ezra 306
Melville Island 93
Methodism 43, 323
Morgan, James 252-254
Morris, Edward 90
Mouland, Art 306
Mouland, Arthur 120, 200, 239, 274, 291, 300, 306
Mouland, Cecil 11-17, 19, 51, 52, 61-63, 108, 124-126, 128, 141, 148, 149, 161, 166, 172, 177, 189, 200, 220, 266-269, 276, 289, 290, 315, 324, 325
Mouland, Elias 274, 300
Mouland, Jessie (Collins) 12, 13, 16, 52, 61-63, 127, 149, 189, 267-270, 289, 325
Mouland, Ralph 108, 124, 220
Muddy Point 51
Murray, Michael 306
Nachvak Fjord 41
Neptune 93, 94
Newfoundland Sealing Company Ltd. 85
New Harbour 35, 39, 318
Newnes, George 242
Newport 16, 17, 23, 24, 33, 35-39, 57, 109, 110, 233, 234, 267, 306
Newtown 53, 54, 56, 107, 117, 120, 236, 274, 292, 300, 316
New York 13, 201
New York, Newfoundland and Halifax Steamship Company 167
Nobel Prize 129
North America 40, 72, 201
Northern Hemisphere 136, 142, 180
Northwest Territories 93
Notch, The (The Narrows) 64-66, 68, 90, 104, 105, 179, 307, 308
Notre Dame Bay 51, 75, 78, 108, 139, 306
Nova Scotia 43, 49, 85, 202
Old Harry 113
Parsons, Abraham 273, 274
Paul’s Island 311, 313, 314
Payne, Hedley 237, 291
Pear, William 238, 244-246, 250, 251, 291
Philadelphia 201
Pickett, Jonas 109
Pistolet Bay 70
Placentia Bay 89, 127, 129
Pollux 241
Pond Inlet 93
Pond Tickl
e 33
Pool’s Island 110
Port au Port Peninsula 241
Portia 243
Pouch Cove 257, 306
Pound Cove 107, 300
Quebec 85
Quirpon 70
Randell, Isaac Robert 155, 298, 299, 301, 303, 306
Randell, Joseph 291
Random Island 129
Ranger 137
Rangoon Beans 84
Red Bay 72
Red Island 89, 127
Robinson Crusoe 105
Royal Household flour 84
Russell, Samuel 300, 319
Ryan’s Bay 70
Ryan, Thomas 291, 292
Sable Island 43, 49
Saglek Bay 41
Sagona 114, 118, 119
Sahara Desert 181
St. Andrew 121, 184
St. Anthony 174
St. Bride’s 252
St. George’s Bay 241
St. John’s 12, 13, 16, 31, 34, 36, 37, 39, 45, 47, 64, 66, 75-78, 80, 81, 86, 89, 95, 101, 102, 104, 109, 113, 118, 122, 123, 127, 139, 161, 162, 167, 178, 190, 191, 194, 195, 200, 214, 215, 224, 229, 242, 245, 251, 254, 264, 303, 306-309, 319, 323, 325
St. Lawrence River 85
St. Mary’s Bay 86, 243
St. Paul Island 42, 167, 169, 170, 202
Saint-Pierre and Miquelon 243
Salt Water Pond 24, 25, 28
Salvation Army 51, 52, 289
Savage Cove 70
Sawyer, Tom 52
Scotland 118, 167
Scott, Robert Falcon 242
Seamen’s Institute 309
Seldom 119
Shackleton, Ernest Henry 242
Shamblers Cove 110, 301
Shanawdithit 136
Sheppard, Mark 254
Signal Hill 129, 307
Silver Fox Island 109
South America 181
South Carolina 201
Southern Cross 89, 241-243
Spain 72, 323
Spanish-American War 85
Squires, Henry 300
Squires, Lemuel 236-238
Stephano 103, 121, 128, 151, 162, 174, 175, 177, 179, 183, 184, 187-190, 197-199, 202, 203, 205, 206, 227, 228, 230-240, 244, 249, 251-257, 261, 262, 271, 276, 279, 284, 287, 289, 292, 299, 300, 303, 305, 306, 320, 321
Strait of Belle Isle 42, 70-72
Sturge’s Island 119
Templeman 53, 56, 107, 274, 306
Tiller, Cecil 292
Tippett, Abel 293-295
Tippett, Edward 155, 293-295
Tippett, Norman 153, 154, 293-295
Tippett, William J. 153, 154, 293, 294
Tizzard, John 226