Trinity College School - Record Yearbook (Port Hope, Ontario Canada)

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l l ,nil l l -- ,- The ewfoundland Tour The thing that most appealed to me when in Newfoundland was the sense of kindness of the people. If all the people were as kind as the Newfoundlanders, we would be one terrific country. So wrote Kent Brady of his trip to Newfoundland. As part of an Open House Canada exchange programme, 24 boys from T.C.S. were given the opportunity to fly to Newfoundland for 10 days before school com- menced in September. Organized by Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Heaton, the group experienced all aspects of life in a small fishing village north of Gander. The village of Carmanville was used as a base for exploring many of the coves along the north shore of the island province: from Twillingate and Dildo Run to the east, Greenspond to the west and Fogo Island to the north. The trip to Gander from Toronto was a story of mixed connections and cancelled flights. The flight, scheduled to arrive in Gander at 3:00 p.m. finally touched down closer to midnight. Parents who were waiting for the T.C.S. boys sat patiently at the school in Carmanville hoping that everyone would arrive safely before daybreak. The arrival of the T.C.S. boys at the school was a definite moment of anxiety. Our boys, clothed in Sunday dress, were ushered into the school cafeteria where they were closely scrutinized by boys clad in jeans and black leather jackets, looking like they would just as soon beat the living daylights out of our boys as be the most gracious of hosts. As Andrew Boyd put it, l found the home atmosphere warm and the people extremely friendly. John Hopkins expressed it this way: One of my informers in Ontario told me that, above all, the people in Newfoundland were friendly. This turned out to be true, and it was hard for me to believe that I was being so readily accepted by total strangers. I have noticed that a sort of trust exists among the inhabitants. This came to me when I was walking back home with my friend and we passed by some squid drying outside. I asked him if people would steal the squid seeing as it was so easy to take. He replied that they wouldn't. The time flew by very quickly, and the boys quickly discovered that the most beneficial parts of the day occurred during unorganized times: the evenings, mornings and days they were able to spend with their billets and their families experiencing life as a Newfoundlander does. Goingjigging for cod was a totally new experience. I had never been jigging before . . . we finally collected enough fish for the whole family's dinner, plus a bit for the freezer wrote Steve Kriter. Mark Jackson noted that They fed me like each day was a banquet but noted that It was sort of confusing when lunch was dinner, and dinner was supper, and lunch was a snack at ll:30. But no matter what the meals were called or when they were eaten, the boys all had the opportunity to try fish and bruis and scrun- chens, jigs dinner, salmon, cod, squid and mussels. But more was gleaned from the trip than simply a sampling of new and different seafoods. Tom Wells put it this way: There seems to be a WAY 1 5 'UF hostility towards the rest of Canada and Confederation itself. Many islanders feel that they would be better off if Newfoundland had never joined the Confederation. I believe many of these feelings stem from the fact that the islanders feel threatened. Something seems to instil the feeling that it was them against the mainlanders, from Halifax to Van-