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Games

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Trivia

The Board

Them days you sent a youngster up the road to say there was a game on. Now you send the code, and if a chair's still empty when you deal, one of the regulars takes it.

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Down the road

Well, Sunday after Mass we'd walk it. Start at the gate and go down, and every house along here I'll tell you who's in it.

Bay Roberts Cable Station

bay-roberts · The Baccalieu Trail

The Conception Bay building that once carried Winston Churchill's private line to Roosevelt.

In 1910 the Western Union Telegraph Company selected Bay Roberts as the landing site for a transatlantic cable; in August of that year the cable ship Colinia began laying the line toward Sennen Cove, Cornwall, alongside a second line to Coney Island, New York. The Cable Station, a Classical Revival commercial block, was erected in 1913 to house the transmitting equipment and a staff of about 45 operators. Western Union laid out Cable Avenue with duplex houses, sidewalks, streetlights, and chestnut trees for its staff. In the Second World War the station was guarded by the Newfoundland Constabulary, the Newfoundland Militia, and Quebec soldiers of the Canadian Army, because one cable carried a private line between Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The restored building now houses a museum, art gallery, and municipal offices; it was designated a Registered Heritage Structure in October 1998.

How to get there

Bay Roberts on Conception Bay: walk Cable Avenue with its chestnut-lined Western Union duplexes to the restored cable station museum.

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Where that comes from

On the go

Them days the garden party was the whole summer. Here's what's on the go now, and when.

The kitchen

Well, Sunday the pot was on before Mass and the smell of it met you at the gate. Here's what was in it, and how it's done.

The hall

Them days the hall had a dance Saturday and the kitchen had music the rest of the week. It's still playing. Come in and listen.

The yarns

He said, you know the one about the light on the water. I said, I do. That's a story, mind, and I'll tell you which parts.

Not the house

No, I said, that's not the house. It was down just below there. Go back up the road.

Back up the road