Games
Come in. Pull up a chair.
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.
Advertise here
Skipper
Got a place worth the drive?
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.
Cupids (Cuper's Cove), 1610
cupids · The Baccalieu Trail
Canada's oldest English colony - and the birth of English family life in North America.
Cuper's Cove (modern Cupids) was established in 1610 by the Newfoundland Company under John Guy - the second English colony in North America after Jamestown. In 1612, 16 women arrived to join the settlement, and on 17 March 1613 the first English child was born there, the son of Nicholas Guy. The colony was harassed by the pirate Peter Easton, with protection paid in livestock. Guy left in 1615, and the settlement had dispersed by about 1624 - but its successors seeded later colonies at Renews (Vaughan), Ferryland (Calvert), and St. John's (Payne).
How to get there
Cupids (the old Cuper's Cove) on Conception Bay, reached off Route 70/75 on the Baccalieu side; the dig site and legacy exhibits are signposted in the community.
Fact
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
