fishing-rooms

Updated: July 16, 2025

The ice in the big bay had broken up suddenly that year in the latter part of March before a tremendous ocean swell heaving in beneath it. The piles of firewood and the loads of timber for the summer fishing-rooms on all the outer islands were left standing on the landwash.

Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell - Labrador Days: Tales of the Sea Toilers