Monday, May 28, 2007

How to stay young

HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height.
Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them."
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening,
whatever. Never let the brain be idle. "An idle mind is the devil's
workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen..... Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who
is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets,
keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,
improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next
county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
We all need to live life to its fullest each day!!

Sunday, May 27, 2007

Do you really know how to send emails

 

“News From Roderick”
Sunday, May 27, 2007


This came to me direct from a system administrator for
a corporate system.It is an excellent message that ABSOLUTELY applies to ALL of us who send e-mails.
Please read the short letter below ..
Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it? Every time you forward an e-mail there is information left over from the people who got the message before you, namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every E-mail address that has come across his computer.Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit.That's right, all of that over a nickel! How do you stop it?

Well, there are two easy steps:

(1)When you forward an e-mail, DELETE all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message(at the top). That's right, DELETE them. High light them and delete them, backspace them, cut them,whatever it is you know how to do. It only takes asecond.You MUST click the "Forward" button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the
message.If you don't click on "Forward" first,
you won't be able to edit the message at all.

(2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one
person, do NOT use the To: or Cc:columns for adding
e-mail address. Always use the BCC:(blind carbon copy)
column for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the
way that people you send to only see their own e-mail
address. If you don't see your BCC: option click on
where it says To: and your address list will appear.
Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that's it,
it's that easy. When you send to BCC: your message
will automatically say "Undisclosed Recipients in the
"TO:" field of the people who receive it.

(3) Remove any "FW:" in the subject line. You can
re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

(4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual
e-mail your reading. Ever get those e-mails that you
have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the
information on it? (Sister Janet put this one on the map)
By Forwarding from the actual page
you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to
open many e-mails just to see what you sent.
Have you ever gotten an email that is a petition? It
states a position and asks you to add your name and
address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your
entire address book. The email can be forwarded on and
on and can collect thousands of names and email
addresses. A FACT: The completed petition is actually
worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer
because of the wealth of valid names and email
addresses contained therein. If you want to support
the petition, send it as your own personal letter to
the intended recipient. Your position may carry more
weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of
names and email address on a petition.
So please, in the future, let's stop the junk mail and the viruses
Roderick B
Toronto

Friday, May 18, 2007

Gambo


GAMBO (inc. 1964; pop. 1981, 2932). This incorporated town is situated in a richly forested river valley where the Gambo River meets the sea in Freshwater Bay, central Bonavista Bay. It is composed of three adjacent (and formerly distinct communities — Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo — which form the town of Gambo. Until October 3, 1980 the community was known as Dark Cove-Middle Brook-Gambo; on that date the area, which had been a rural district, was reincorporated as a town and officially renamed Gambo by the Municipalities Act (1980) (Newfoundland Gazette: Oct. 3, 1980).
The names Gambo and Middle Brook were recorded for the first time in the Census in 1857; Dark Cove was first recorded in the Census in 1884. Before that time, all settlement sites in the area, which included Hay Cove, Man Point and Hare Bay, were enumerated under the heading Freshwater Bay, the name of the long indraft of Bonavista Bay along which they were situated. According to M.F. Howley (n.d.), the name Gambo is a corruption of the Spanish or Portuguese name “Bale de las Gamas,” meaning the Bay of the Does, the name by which the area appears on early maps. According to the Royal Gazette (Jan. 1964), the area Middle Brook-Dark Cove was renamed Riverwood on that date, but this name does not appear to have been used officially or unofficially.

The Gambo area, with its fast-flowing streams draining many ponds, and its heavily-wooded land with rich, dark soil capable of supporting small-scale agriculture, has been an attractive area for commercial salmon fishing since the Eighteenth Century and for industrialized harvesting of its large forest stands since the mid-Nineteenth Century. It was first visited by salmon fishermen, who fished the Gambo River and other streams in Freshwater Bay, in the early 1700s. In the 1720s George Skeffington, with the backing of St. John’s merchant William Keen, established salmon fisheries at Dog Bay (Horwood) and Freshwater Bay (Gambo) as well as stations at Ragged Harbour and Gander River, Notre Dame Bay (C.G. Head: 1976). According to Head there was considerable competition from other Bonavista Bay men for
the rights to these rivers.
By 1836 there were permanent settlers in Freshwater Bay, when twenty-six people were reported in the area. Gambo was first recorded on the Census in 1857, with a population of 105 (including one English-born resident and three people who were born in other British colonies); Middle Brook at this time numbered thirty residents. Dark Cove and nearby Dolmon’s Point were first reported in the Census of 1884 with populations of thirty-one and forty-one respectively.
The earliest settlers in the area probably came to Freshwater Bay through their connections with major merchantile firms in Trinity and Bonavista Bays, who were encouraged in the fishery by the Governor of Newfoundland. In 1786 it was reported that Benjamin Lester and Company of Trinity qv, Trinity Bay had salmon fishermen based at Freshwater Bay (H.A. Innis: 1954, p. 294). The company’s establishment may have been a response to a proclamation issued by Commodore Robert Duff qv, Governor of Newfoundland in 1775, which stated that “the considerable salmon fisheries [that] were then carried on in Freshwater Bay . . . and several other places on the north-eastern part of Newfoundland, might be greatly extended and improved” (quoted in L.A. Anspach: 1827, pp. 202-203). This proclamation established regulations for the salmon fishery which protected the large English firms operating from bases in Newfoundland.
In the Nineteenth Century salmon wardens regularly reported on the progress of this fishery and commented particularly on over-fishing. The fishery was prosecuted mainly by fishing servants who, having fished the brooks over a period of years, were regarded as the independent, sole proprietors of these waters. It was highly competitive, and even large firms jostled for the right to exclusive ownership with the year-round inhabitants of the brook sides. In 1856 it was noted by an irate warden, who supported the local fishery, that “at Gambo or Fresh Water Bay there are three considerable Brooks discharging into it their waters, viz: Gambo Brook, Middle and Taverner’s Brook . . . the heads of which no one but the occupier of the Brooks should be permitted to fish for salmon” (JHA: 1857, App. p. 345).
Settlers in the Gambo area .by 1871 were Edward Barrow, David, Jacob, Joseph and James Golong (Goulding), Alfred Inder, Jacob and Robert Oakley, Samuel Pretty and Job, John, James and William Pritchett, all fishermen (Lovell’s Newfoundland Directory: 1871). Most of these family names have earlier associations with Greenspond qv (E.R. Seary: 1976), and the Greenspond firm of Brooking and Company was known to be active in the salmon fishery. According to Seary the Pritchett family reputedly settled at Domino Point (Dominion Point), Freshwater Bay (and later at Middle Brook) after the patriarch, James Pritchett, had emigrated from Devon to Goose Bay in southern Bonavista Bay previous to
1832.
One source of local oral tradition (M. Pond: 1973, p. 3) maintains that the first inhabitants of the Gambo area were a Micmac family named Joe, who were encamped at Mitchells Point at the mouth of Middle Brook. Although an oral account of hostilities between the Micmac and white settlers exists, Pond maintains that relations between the two groups were peaceful and that the Indian population was eventually assimilated into the white population. Joe is a Micmac surname and Seary lists a Madeline Joe as a resident of Gambo in 1876. Head (1964, p. 31) relates that according to oral history Dole- man’s Point in the 1870s was “a point of cleared land, locally known as a not-too-old Micmac Indian encampment.” Indian occupation of the site seems likely: as Paul Carignan (1977) points out, the Indian populations preferred the long reaches of inner Bonavista Bay near heavily forested areas and good salmon streams, all features of the Gambo-Freshwater Bay region. According to Pond (pp. 9-11), the first white settlers were James Feltham (who settled at Middle Brook) and James Pritchett, both salmon fishermen who had reputedly left England during the War of 1812 to escape the press gangs.
Five male members of the Pritchett family were listed as salmon fishermen on the Gambo River in 1872. Their catch (21 tierces) was salted and sold to a Mr. Tessier (possibly of P. and L. Tessier of St. John’s) for £4, lOs per tierce (JHA: 1873, App. p. 817). In his report of the salmon fishery for the year 1872, John Pritchett noted that,
The Salmon fishery commences about the 10th June, and it leaves about the 10th August in Freshwater Bay. There have been more salmon seen in Gambo Pond this summer, more than there have been seen this many a summer; they were seen by the log cutters very plenty. We used to get half of our voyage at Gambo River, but since the sawmill have [sic] been there we cant [sicJ get not one quarter. If the shipping continue coming up for timber while the nets are set in the water, we will have to give up our fishery; the boats going to and fro in the river will make a complete sweep of it, and the noise of the steam mill turns the salmon from there [sic] course. The roaring of the steam can be heard three miles (JHA: 1873, App. p. 817).The sawmill referred to by Pritchett was established at Dominion Point on Gambo Brook during the winter of 1862-1863 by David Smallwood qv, a Prince Edward Island immigrant to Newfoundland and the grandfather of Joseph R. Smallwood qv, who was born in Gambo in 1900. David Smallwood set up a large steam-powered mill which was the first steam-powered mill used in tue lumbering industry in Newfoundland. According to a description of the apparatus in the Harbour Grace Standard (Oct. 9, 1872, p. 2): “One sees the logs continuously coming in, drawn by a force that never flags, and turning about he sees the lumber passing through the shute to the wharf, there being no hitch or confusion whatever in the intermediate operation. All goes on with mechanical regularity . . . we may mention the fact that six thousand feet of lumber were cut in the mill since August last and the little shingle machine in use is one of the prettiest imaginable.” Eighteen to twenty men were employed in the sawmill, most of whom had had very little previous experience working with that type of machinery. According to the Standard this enterprise could not have been undertaken but for the “indomitable Scotch pluck” of David Smallwood. The Gambo mill, around which a community had rapidly sprung up, was joined by a new and impressive mill at Mint Brook qv which was set up in 1876 to harvest the large stands of spruce, pine and fir that lined the streams flowing into Freshwater Bay. Mint Brook, located about 3.2 km (2 mi) south of Gambo, was established by John James Murphy, a Catalina native and later prominent businessman of Gambo who recruited his millworkers from the partly-Irish settlements of the southern shore of Bonavista Bay (Head: 1964, p. 26) and from New Brunswick (J.R. Thorns: 1967, p. 418).A townsite sprang up along the tramway leading to the mill which became one of the largest in Newfoundland, attracting large numbers of settlers to the site. Both the mill and the townsite were burnt to the ground in 1907 but at its peak the mill had produced up to 50,000 fbm of lumber per day and had attracted many new residents from the headland and island communities of Bonavista Bay to settle in the thriving, self-sufficient community that had grown up around the mill. According to J.K. Hiller (1980; interview, July 1982), the Murphy mill at Mint Brook had been sold in 1903 to H.J. Crowe of Newfoundland Timber Estates, a Reid Newfoundland Company. In 1908 the Gambo Lumber Company Limited was incorporated. This company, which ceased to operate in 1912, was owned by George A. Scott of Montreal and other shareholders. For the most part, however, large-scale milling operations developed by outside companies or interests ceased after
1912, with the exception of the Anglo Newfoundland Development Company (AND.) mill built in 1911.
Between 1876 and 1906 Gambo changed from a small fishing-farming area to a bustling group of communities with large sawmills and a burgeoning population. In 1878 a family from St. Brendan’s dammed a small pond at Dark Cove and built a sawmill. A second family from Greenspond settled at Doleman’s Point, Middle Brook, and a sawmill was constructed which utilized the waters of Middle Brook for power.
After the Mint Brook mill was destroyed by fire, Middle Brook became the site of a 40,000 fbm per day mill (Head: p. 34). While the pine forests were exhausted by the turn of the century (Hand- cock and Sanger: 1981, p. 46), numerous other small mills came into existence based on the spruce and fir reserves. Pond (1973) noted the building of the second mill (made of brick) on Middle Brook in the early 1900s. In 1921 William Pritchet also started a mill on Middle Brook, and Pond Brothers established a sawmill in a cove outside Middle Brook. That mill was later relocated on Middle Brook itself. Other sawmill owners and operatom included Lewis Pritchett, the Hender Brothers and George Pritchett. Most of these enterprises, with the exception of those of the Pond, and the Hender Brothers, were short-lived.
The establishment of pulp and paper mills in central and western Newfoundland created a demand for pulp logs and from 1938 to the 1960s the Gambo Valley was intensely logged for pulpwood by Bowaters of Corner Brook. Contract pulpwood cutting was also undertaken for the A.N.D. Company (later the Price Newfoundland Company) based at Grand Falls. The A.N.D. Company had also established a mill at Gambo in 1911 and employed many men in the area. This mill was also phased out in the early 1960s. A series of forest fires in the area in the early 1960s greatly reduced the commercial saw- milling and pulpwood operations and by the mid-1960s Bowaters had ceased all commercial logging in the area.
The beginning of commercial lumbering in the Gambo area in the 1870s was the drawing card for many settlers from the older headlands and island communities of Bonavista Bay to relocate in Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo. This movement occurred in two phases:
from 1870 to roughly 1920, and from 1955 to 1965. As related, families from St. Brendan’s and Greenspond moved to Dark Cove and Middle Brook in the 1870s. In 1892 the railway running north from Placentia Junction reached Gambo and roads were constructed by 1894 linking Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo. After fire destroyed the Mint Brook mill in 1907, the residents of that community abandoned it and moved to Gambo. During this era increasing local and world markets for timber, the coming of the railway and Gambo’s increasing importance as a regional administrative and service centre, attracted other new residents. In 1891 Middle Brook numbered ninety-three people; Dark Cove had thirty residents and Gambo River seventy-nine (Census). By 1911 Gambo had 344 residents (many from Mint Brook), Dark Cove had 242 and Middle Brook had a population of 281. The next major rise in population occurred in the 1950s, when twenty Bragg’s Island families resettled in Dark Cove mainly in three areas, known locally as “the Marsh,” “the Waterfront,” and “Pauls’ Hill (Head: 1964: p. 97). According to Head (p. 97) and Handcock and Sanger (p. 46), settlement in the area tended to follow denominational lines established in the first phase of large-scale settlement, with the majority of the Roman Catholic residents settling at Gambo, Anglican and many United Church families tending to settle at Dark Cove and other United Church and Salvation Army residents living at Middle Brook. In the early 1950s the nearby communities of Hay Cove and Mann Point qqv were abandoned and their residents moved to the Gambo area to be close to sources of employment and services. Other families from Fair Island, Deer Island, Gooseberry Islands, flat Island and Bragg’s Island qqv resettled with government assistance throughout the area in the late 1950s and early 1960s, mainly according to family ties and religious denominations, as had been the case with the initial Bragg’s Island to Dark Cove move in 1955 (See Iverson and Matthews: 1978). In 1956 the populations of Dark Cove, Middle Brook and Gambo stood at 808, 681 and 414 respectively. By 1966 they had reached a combined total of 2,446 and by 1976 they stood at 2,977.
The pull-out of the major pulp and paper companies from the Gambo area and the 1961 forest fire which started near Middle Brook proved to be crushing economic blows. Increasingly Gambo residents sought employment outside the community, particularly in Gander, which had provided many jobs during the construction of the airport there, and in jobs such as construction, logging, carpentry, mechanics and the service industry. The Gambo area itself had been a regional administrative and service centre from the 1930s for the Freshwater Bay area, and for the isolated island communities of the Bonavista archipelago. A Relief Officer, Justice of the Peace and other social services personnel had been in place since the 1930s and in 1960 a Federal Government building, housing branches of the Post Office, Department of Fisheries and Canadian National was opened. The Federal Building was built on the site of a hotel which had been built next to the railway station and which was torn down by the late 1950s (Pond: p. 22).
In 1982 the Gambo labour force continued to be employed in Gander, in airport, hospital and other service- related jobs there. Some people were self-employed, or found jobs in local services or seasonal log-cutting. In the mid-1970's most of the remaining sawmills had closed and the last, S.A. Pond, closed in 1980. In 1977 the Gambo Indian Bay Development Association was formed to encourage economic recovery and development. Although Gambo has always been basically too far inland to prosecute the fishery (although ship-building was undertaken at one time), the Association has sponsored the construction of wharves, stages and slipways at Fair Islands and Bragg’s Island, for the prosecution of the summer fishery (Rounder: March-April 1981, pp. 35-36). Since the early 1970's prospective area farmers scouted for suitable land to cultivate and a local agricultural association was formed. In 1979 there was little local agriculture but the Development Association invested over $250,000 by 1979 to encourage agriculture in the region. In 1979 three farms, producing mainly vegetables and some fruit, were in operation: one at Dark Cove, one at Butt’s Pond and one south of Gambo (Rounder: May 1979, p.42).
Children were reported to be attending school at Gambo in 1884 and by 1891 there was a school at Mint Brook. According to Pond (p. 42), the first school in Gambo was reputedly established in Absalom Pritchett’s barn in the late 1800's by a Mrs. Churchill. This was replaced by a more suitable building by 1910. The first church, St. George’s (Church of England) was also built by this time and later other churches (Salvation Army, Roman Catholic and United Church) were built in all three communities according to denominational needs. In 1964 *J.R. Smallwood Academy qv was opened to serve the region’s highschool students. In 1982 there were three schools serving Gambo students: Bayview Heights Elementary (Kindergarten to Grade Seven) and Smallwood Academy (Grades Eight to Eleven) located in the Dark Cove area and Sacred Heart Elementary (Kindergarten to Grade Seven) at Gambo. See FORESTRY; PULP AND PAPER MAKING; SAWMILLS. L.A. Anspach (1827), Effie Barkhouse (interview, Feb. 1981), Paul Carignan (1977), J. Curran (1978), a. Goulding (1970), Handcock and Sanger (1981), C.G. Head (1964; 1976), J.K. Hiller (1980; interview, July 1982), H.A. Innis (1954), Iverson and Matthews (1978),
M. Pond (1973), D.W. Prowse (1895), E.R. Scary (1976), JR. Thoms (1967), Census (1836-1981), Harbour Grace Standard (Oct. 9, 1872), JHA (1851; 1857; 1873), Newfoundland Gazette (Oct. 3, 1980), Royal Gazette (Jan. 1964), Lovell’s Newfoundland Directory (1871), Rounder (May 1979; Mar.-Apr. 1982) Newfoundland Historical Society (Gambo). Map G. JEMP

- submitted by R. F. Brentnall







Thursday, May 10, 2007

Monday, May 07, 2007

"They also served" by Tom Curran

"They Also Served" by Tom Curran, and the publication "Timber" are available through the Interlibrary Loan service

For more information please contact the following:

Centre For Newfoundland Studies
Queen Elizabeth II Library
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NF
Canada
A1B 3Y1

email: qe2ill@mun.ca

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Newfoundland Media Links

Media Listing

Television

CBC-TV - Here & Now
95 University Avenue St. John's,NL A1B 1Z4
Telephone: (709) 576-5000 | Facsimile: (709) 576-5144
hereandnow.nl@cbc.ca

NTV - St. John's
446 Logy Bay Road, P.O. Box 2020 St. John's,NL A1C 5S2
Telephone: (709) 722-5015 | Facsimile: (709) 722-3207
news@ntv.ca

NTV News - Corner Brook
3 Garden Road Corner Brook, NL A2H 4P4
Telephone: (709)639-1766 | Cell: (709)632-0811 | Facsimile: (709)639-1762
westcoast@ntv.ca


Radio

CBC Radio - Corner Brook (CBY 990-AM)
192 Premiere Drive Corner Brook, NL A2H 6G1
Telephone: (709) 634-3141 | Facsimile: (709) 634-8506
cbrookradio@cbc.ca

CBC Radio - Gander (CBG 1400-AM)
P.O. Box 369, 98 Sullivan Avenue
Gander, NL A1V 1W7
Telephone: (709) 256-4311 | Facsimile: (709) 651-2021
gandernews@cbc.ca

CBC Radio - Grand Falls (CBT 540-AM)
4 Harris Avenue Grand Falls, NL A2A 2Y2
Telephone: (709) 489-2102 | Facsimile: (709) 489-1055
grandfallsnews@cbc.ca

CBC Radio - Labrador (CFGB 89.5FM)
Box 1029 Station C. Happy Valley - Goose Bay, NL A0P 1C0
Telephone: (709) 896-2911 | Facsimile: (709) 896-8900
labradormorning@cbc.ca

CBC Radio - St. John's (CBN 640-AM)
342 Duckworth Street, Box 12010, Stn. A
St. John's, NL A1B 3T8
Telephone: (709) 576-5225 | Facsimile: (709) 576-5234
radionews@stjohns.cbc.ca


CFCB Radio - Corner Brook
P.O Box 570 Corner Brook, NL A2H 6H5
Telephone: (709) 634-4570 | Facsimile: (709) 634-4081
cfcb.news@vocm.com

CFCB Radio - Labrador (CFLW 1340-AM)
176 Hamilton River Road Happy Valley - Goose Bay, NL
Telephone: (709) 282-3139 | Facsimile: (709)282-5543
cflw@cfcbradio.com

CHMR Radio - Memorial University (93.5-FM)
Box A-119, Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Telephone: (709) 737-4777 | Facsimile: (709) 737-7688
chmr@mun.ca

CKXG Radio
P.O. Box 620 Grand Falls-Windsor, NL A2A 2K2
Telephone: (709) 489-0498 | Facsimile: (709)489-8626
ckxgnews@vocm.com

Coast 101.1 FM
P.O. Box 28106, 48 Kenmount Road
St. John's, NL A1B 4J8
Telephone: (709) 754-6748 | Facsimile: (709) 754-6749
onair@coast1011.com

HITS FM (CKIX - 99.1)
391 Kenmount Road, Box 8590
St. John's, NL A1B 3M7
Telephone: (709) 726-5590 | Facsimile: (709) 726-4633
hitsmail@991hitsfm.com

K-Rock - St. John's
P.O Box 8590 St. John's, NL A1B 3P5
Telephone: (709)726-5590 | Facsimile: (709) 726-8626
email@k-rock975.com

K-Rock Radio - Corner Brook
P.O Box 570, 345 O'Connell Drive
Corner Brook, NL A2H 7B2
Telephone: (709)634-1340 | Facsimile: (709)634-4081
cfcb@vocm.com

OKalaKatiget Society
P.O. Box 160 Nain, Labrador A0P 1L0
Telephone: (709)922-2955 | Facsimile: (709)922-2293
labradorimiut@oksociety.com

OZ FM
466 Logy Bay Road, P.O. Box 2020
St. John's, NL A1C 5S2
Telephone: (709) 726-2922 | Facsimile: (709) 726-3300
ozfm@ozfm.com

VOAR Radio (1210-AM)
1041 Topsail Road Mount Pearl, NL A1N 5E9
Telephone: (709) 745-8627 | Facsimile: (709) 745-5600
voar@voar.org

VOCM Radio - Gander (CKGA)
P.O. Box 650 Gander, NL A1V 1X2
Telephone: (709)651-3650 | Facsimile: (709)651-2542
dhillier@vocm.com

VOCM Radio - Grand Falls-Windsor (CKCM - 620)
P.O. Box 620 Grand Falls-Windsor, NL A2A 2K2
Telephone: (709)489-2192 | Facsimile: (709)489-8626
ckcm@vocm.com

VOCM Radio - Marystown (CHCM)
P.O. Box 560 Marystown, NL A0E 2M0
Telephone: (709)279-2560 | Facsimile: (709)279-2800
chcm.sales@vocm.com

VOCM Radio - St. John's (VOCM 590-AM)
P.O. Box 8590 St. John's, NL A1B 3P5
Telephone: (709) 726-5590 | Facsimile: (709) 726-8626
feedback@vocm.com

VOCM Radio Carbonear - (CHVO-AM)
P.O. Box 1850, 1 CHVO Drive Carbonear, NL A1Y1A2
Telephone: (709) 596-1560 | Facsimile: (709) 596-8626
chvo@vocm.com

VOWR-Radio (AM)
P.O. Box 7430 St. John's, NL A1E 3Y5
Telephone: (709) 579-9233 | Facsimile: (709) 579-9232
vowr@vowr.org


Newspapers/Print Media

Advertiser, The
P.O. Box 129 Grand Falls-Windsor, NL A2A 2J4
Telephone: (709) 489-2162 | Facsimile: (709) 489-4817
editor@advertisernl.ca

Aurora, The
P.O. Box 423 Labrador City, Labrador A2V 2K7
Telephone: (709) 944-2957 | Facsimile: (709) 944-2958
editor@theaurora.ca

Beacon, The
P.O. Box 420 Gander, NL A1V 1W8
Telephone: (709) 256-4371 | Facsimile: (709) 256-3826
info@beaconnl.ca

Charter, The
P.O. Box 101 Jerseyside, NL A0B 2G0
Telephone: (709) 227-5240 | Facsimile: (709) 227-3892
editor@thecharter.ca

Coaster, The
P.O. Box 298 Harbour Breton, NL A0H 1P0
Telephone: (709) 885-2378 | Facsimile: (709) 885-2393
editor@thecoaster.ca

Compass, The
P.O. Box 760, 176 Water Street Carbonear, NL A1Y 1C3
Telephone: (709) 596-6458 | Facsimile: (709) 596-1700
editor@cbncompass.ca

Downhome
43 James Lane St. John's, NL A1E 3H3
Telephone: (709) 726-5113 | Facsimile: (709) 726-2135
mail@downhomelife.com

Gazette, The (Memorial University)
Division of Marketing and Communications, Arts and Administration Building, Room A-1024, Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL A1C 5S7
Telephone: (709) 737-2143 | Facsimile: (709) 737-8699
gazette@mun.ca


Georgian, The
P.O. Box 283 Stephenville, NL A2N 2Z4
Telephone: (709) 643-4531 | Facsimile: (709) 643-5041
editor@thegeorgian.ca

Gulf News, The
P.O. Box 1090 Port aux Basques, NL A0M 1C0
Telephone: (709) 695-3671 | Facsimile: (709) 695-7901
editor@gulfnews.ca

Herald, The
P.O. Box 2015, 458 Logy Bay Road St John's, NL A1C 5R7
Telephone: (709) 726-7060 | Facsimile: (709) 726-6971
mdwyer@nfldherald.com

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Tax




Tax


Tax his land, Tax his bed, Tax the table at which he's fed. Tax his tractor, Tax his mule, Teach him taxes are the rule.

Tax his cow, Tax his goat, Tax his pants, Tax his coat. Tax his ties, Tax his shirt, Tax his work, Tax his dirt.

Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think. Tax his cigars, Tax his beers, If he cries then Tax his tears.

Tax his car, Tax his gas, Find other ways to tax his ass. Tax all he has then let him know you won't be done till he has no dough.

When he screams and hollers, then tax him some more, Tax him till he's good and sore. Then tax his coffin, Tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he's laid.

Put these words upon his tomb, "Taxes drove me to my doom..."

When he's gone, do not relax, It's time to apply the Inheritance tax.

COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago, And our nation was the most prosperous in the world. We had absolutely no national debt, had the largest middle class In the world, and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What happened? And I still have to "press 1" for English?