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.
Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk
Shanawdithit was the very last Beothuk, and she died in 1829.
Shanawdithit (died 6 June 1829 in St. John's of tuberculosis, aged about 29) is the last reliably documented Beothuk person. Taken into a settler household as a young woman, she created drawings and narratives - including a map recalling the 1819 capture of her aunt Demasduit - now held by The Rooms and Library and Archives Canada. CBC's Secret Life of Canada and participating scholars stress the phrase 'last known': whether she was literally the final person of Beothuk descent is an open, respectful discussion, not a settled one-liner.
The story they tell
The 19th-century romantic framing - 'the last of a doomed race', staged portraits and mournful verse - which wrapped a real, documented woman in vanishing-race mythology that still colors how visitors phrase the question.
Some story
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
