In this final episode of the "Down to Sally's Cove" podcast, Ella Manuel comments on some of the odd phrases and strange words she came across in her travels around Newfoundland. Most, but not all, are now clearly explained in the magisterial Dictionary of Newfoundland English. Send us a text

In this episode Ella Manuel recalls ice-boating on Burnt Bay off Lewisporte in the 1920s, and how her friend Nancy met a "bear" while crossing the Bay on the winter ice. Send us a text

Ella Manuel tells a story about a young sleeveen from Baker's Brook who was forever causing trouble in the woods camp where he worked. Send us a text

Many are the stories told around Newfoundland and Labrador about goats and rams possessed of special powers and inclined to mad antics. Here is one that Aunt Jenny, who lived in Bloomfield many years ago, told Ella Manuel about a hymn-singing goat. Send us a text

Uncle John tells the young Ella Manuel a spooky story from the Bay of Exploits. Send us a text

In this first episode of the final season (“Ghosts and Dirty Tricks") ,Ella Manuel recalls a memorable Guy Fawkes night when she was a young girl in Lewisporte in the 1920 s. Send us a text

Here Ella Manuel recalls a visit to Newfoundland 170 years ago of an American ship loaded with dignitaries come to see what should have been the laying of the first telegraph cable to Nova Scotia. Send us a text

Here Ella recalls an old salt named Will Barnes. Though she never met him in life, his memoir of wild exploits at sea delighted her. Send us a text

During the long history of Arctic exploration, of expeditions that disappeared and of the many attempts to find them, one in particular stands out for its connection with Captain Isaac Bartlett of Brigus. Here is Ella Manuel's re-telling of the rescue of shipwreck survivors from southward-drifting Greenland ice floes. Send us a text

This story was first told by Neil Dewar himself, and has been repeated in several recent books. Dewar's experiences remind us of the terrible conditions that faced those who two centuries ago survived shipwreck on the empty coast of northern Newfoundland. It is a tale of horror, suffering and courage, of compassion and survival. Send us a text

Around 1900, John Pittman of Rocky Harbour disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Here Ella Manuel tells a story of what might have happened to him. Send us a text

Among the early 19th century seamen who wrote of their voyages to Newfoundland and Labrador was British Lieutenant Edward Chappell. In 1818 he published an account of the cruise five years earlier of H.M.S. Rosamond to Newfoundland and Labrador “of which countries no account has been published by any British traveller since the reign of Queen Elizabeth.” While visiting southern Labrador, he wrote that “We were much surprised, on visiting our good friend Mr. Pinson, to find a handsome fe...

Another missionary of sorts, this one with a medical wife, was the Rev. Hugh MacDermott who arrived in 1904 not far from where Dr. “Fitz” was working, though the one seems to have written little about the other. Ella Manuel’s story of the man once described as “to Newfoundland what Grenfell has been to Labrador” is based on his 1938 memoir “MacDermott of Fortune Bay Told by Himself” Send us a text

About the same time that James Lumsden arrived in Newfoundland, young doctor Conrad Fitz-Gerald landed in Harbour Breton to attend to people who worked along the southeast coast for a company of fish and wine merchants. As Ella Manuel relates, there were few medical men as tough and indestructible, and as self-effacing. Send us a text

Twenty-five years after Anglican missionary Julian Moreton, the subject of the previous episode, left Newfoundland, along came to the northeastern coast another preacher, whose parishes overlapped Moreton’s. James Lumsden’s assignment was to minister to Wesleyans, later known as Methodists. Here, Ella Manuel tells of his nine years in eastern and northern Newfoundland. Send us a text

Over the years, Newfoundland and Labrador benefitted from the efforts of dedicated men and women who were sent here to promote one Christian denomination or another. One who fascinated Ella Manuel was Julian Moreton, who pitched up on the shores of northern Bonavista Bay as a Church of England missionary. His 1863 memoir “Life and Work in Newfoundland: Reminiscences of Thirteen Years Spent There” tells of his travels and adventures in the scattered and thinly populated northeastern corner of ...

Throughout the long and complex history of relations with the United States, there came a time when an American invasion was thought to be imminent. In this story, Ella Manuel tells how an officer sent from England to defend Newfoundland discovers the ups and downs of life in St. John’s and recounts one of the last duels fought there. Send us a text

Here Ella Manuel describes a charming old guide book to Newfoundland, full of information that the tourist and sportsman of the day would need. Send us a text

As a young girl, Ella Manuel often went by boat to visit the lovely island of Exploits in Notre Dame Bay, where her father and his grew up. Many years later she returned, sharing a boat ride with Gail and Gerry Squires, who had made a seasonal home there. It was here that Gerry began to develop his artistic vision of Newfoundland landscape and spiritual heritage. In this story, Ella also tells of three old brothers who once lived on Exploits. Send us a text

In the early 1960s, Ella journeyed around the Northern Peninsula by coastal steamer, then the only public means of moving people and goods from one isolated outport to another. In this account of one trip she made around western Notre Dame Bay, she tells of her conversations with the captain. Send us a text