The following is an excerpt from Admiral Kennedy's 1885 text "Sport, Travel, and Adventure in Newfoundland and the West Indies" in which he recounts his visit to Little Bay in 1881. Soon after we had anchored, the " oldest in- habitant" came on boa ...
The Little Bay Heroine
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A Tinsmith’s Tale
The first tinsmith in Little Bay was a man named Robert Malcolm. He is first documented in the town in 1882. He was married to Catherine Morisey and the couple had four children. In the late 1880s Little Bay was experiencing something referred to as ...
The Weather Lights
In a recent video I posted a 1980s interview with a woman from Little Bay Islands named Dorothy Locke in which she speaks about her experiences growing up on the island with particular focus on life there in the 1930s. It's an amazing listen and rea ...
1878
The year is 1878 in an area of Newfoundland still known as Indian Bight and the Little Bay mines are just about to start. And due to an act of fortune or foresight the site has a brand new telegraph office already in place, the line extended there e ...