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Games

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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.

Grand Bank Banking Schooner Heritage

Grand Bank is a historic town of approximately 2,500 people on the Burin Peninsula of southern Newfoundland, celebrated as one of the great fishing towns of the Grand Banks. For centuries, Grand Bank was home to the banking schooner fishery — the dory-based deep-sea fishing conducted on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The town's historic downtown f

Grand Bank is a historic town of approximately 2,500 people on the Burin Peninsula of southern Newfoundland, celebrated as one of the great fishing towns of the Grand Banks. For centuries, Grand Bank was home to the banking schooner fishery — the dory-based deep-sea fishing conducted on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, one of the richest fishing grounds in the world. The town's historic downtown features an unusual concentration of Queen Anne Revival and other ornate late-Victorian homes, built by wealthy fish merchants and sea captains — a testament to the prosperity the banking fishery brought to the community at its height. Grand Bank was also a centre for the fresh-fish trade to American markets in the early twentieth century, with fast schooners racing fresh halibut and other fish to Boston and Gloucester. The Southern Newfoundland Seamen's Museum in Grand Bank commemorates this maritime heritage. The town also has a connection to the provincial weather service — Grand Bank is home to Environment Canada's Newfoundland weather station, one of the province's key meteorological monitoring sites. The collapse of the Grand Banks cod fishery in the late twentieth century hit communities like Grand Bank severely, triggering significant population decline. Efforts to diversify the local economy have included aquaculture and tourism focused on the town's remarkable architectural heritage and seafaring history.

Fact

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