• Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel

  • Written by: Antony Berger
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Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel

Written by: Antony Berger
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  • “DOWN TO SALLY’S COVE” is a collection of stories about Newfoundland and Labrador by Ella Manuel (1911-1985) and read by me, Antony Berger. I’m the editor of my mother’s writings about the history and rich culture of the places she lived, and the people she knew and loved. New episodes will be uploaded every week until mid-January 2021.

    In 1945, after years in England and the USA, Ella returned to Newfoundland to live, a single mother with two small boys. Using her maiden name, she began to write for newspapers and magazines and to read for radio stories about the places and people she met, recapturing some of the forgotten men and women of Newfoundland’s past. Over the next three decades, her voice became known across Canada through her many broadcasts on the CBC. When she died, she left behind a confused mass of undated manuscripts and notes, which I have now arranged and edited. Only a few recordings of her marvellous voice still exist, so I have decided to read her stories myself, notwithstanding the challenge of a male voice substituting for hers.

    The stories are arranged in five groups. Season 1 is entitled Around Bonne Bay; Season 2 - Friends and Neighbours; Season 3 - Beyond the Bay; Season 4 - Medics, Missionaries and Military Men; Season 5 - Tough Times at Sea; Season 6 - Ghosts and Dirty Tricks

    A biography of my mother, together with a selection of her writings and broadcasts, including many of these podcast episodes, has been published under the title “No Place for a Woman. The Life and Newfoundland Stories of Ella Manuel” (Breakwater Books, St. John’s NL, 2020).
    © 2024 Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel
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Episodes
  • Episode 1: NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN

    Episode 1: NO PLACE FOR A WOMAN
    Apr 13 2020

    Growing up in Lewisporte in northeastern Newfoundland, Ella Manuel acquired a love of fishing that stayed with her for the rest of her life. In this story she tells of days on the rivers of western Newfoundland and of her encounters with men who could not accept the idea of a woman fishing expertly. On the Lomond River she glories in the thrill of fly fishing, and first hears about the remarkable Emma Tapper, who was completely at home on any river.

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    11 mins
  • Episode 2 - A CHANCE MEETING, A NEW IDEA

    Episode 2 - A CHANCE MEETING, A NEW IDEA
    Apr 13 2020

    In the 1940s, as Ella Manuel was thinking of how to earn a living in Western Newfoundland, she met some disgruntled fly-fishermen from the southern United States. This may have led to the sports-fishing venture she later developed at Killdevil Lodge.

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    8 mins
  • Episode 3 - MY KILLDEVIL DAYS

    Episode 3 - MY KILLDEVIL DAYS
    Apr 13 2020

    Ella Manuel returned in the mid-1940s to Newfoundland, a divorced mother of two small boys. Chatting with American sportsman Lee Wulff about the need for fly-fishing camps in north-western Newfoundland, she suddenly decided to start a sports-fishing venture. In Lomond, the once busy logging town in Bonne Bay, she set up a summer-time operation at Killdevil Lodge. Though it did not prosper, Ella gloried in the beauty of her surroundings.

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    15 mins

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