Outport

There are only 20 people left in that tiny outport, which is not accessible by road, so I guess this was inevitable. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The northern outports grew in importance ( "outport" is used for all fishing ports except St. John's). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Talk to Newfoundlanders in what is left of the outport communities if you think this can't happen. ❋ Matt Rigney (2010)

The tales that emerge - despite their seemingly fantastic elements of spells and black heart books, hags, and healing charms - concern everyday affairs and reveal the intense social interdependence central to outport life. ❋ Christopher (2008)

Monolinguals only have to be minimally mobile geographically or socially to notice analogous differences: I bet you observed different social usages norms in outport Nfld, along with some of those characteristic vowels, consonants and verbal /-s/ forms you heard. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rural Newfoundland is not sharing in the wealth, and hundreds of outport communities are still trying to recover from the closure of the cod fishery in 1992, in which a $700-million enterprise, plus 30,000 jobs, were wiped out overnight. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I definitely didn't visit "outport Nfld" - one needs a boat for that, and it's largely depopulated now, from what I gather - but all over Nfld, everyone is "love", "m'dear", "dearie". ❋ Unknown (2008)

The 611 not only gives me the option of storing up to 25 hours of HD programming on its hard drive, but there's an output on the back that allows me to outport a downcoverted signal to our DVD recorder. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Charles F. Bailey, a former fisherman and boat skipper and representative of the outport Trinity South constituency was one of them. ❋ Ed Hollett (2007)

My actions, however, were motivated by a passion to strengthen Newfoundlanders 'and Labradorians' place in Canada and a need to end the threat to the survival of our culture, a culture grounded in outport tradition and history that gives us a distinctive character. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Yet another neighbor, Ann Jackman, sold hay to Goodridge's and worked as shore crew for a B.McCarthy. 105 Plebeian women's working careers were often much more multi-faceted than the traditional model for outport Newfoundland, which included essentially only the options of family production or service. ❋ Unknown (2005)

SULLIVAN: He's up on the truss just a little bit and outport as you can see to port, in order to give him an angle of view to help the extra eyeballs watching this. ❋ Unknown (2005)

These, and the pleasure-houses, stand as trim as soldiers on parade; contrasting with the swarming, slovenly, close, tumble-down, Eastern old town, that forms the outport of Cairo, and was built before the importation of European taste and discipline. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Their native wit, their outport culture, their kindliness, and their capacity to stick it out were all they had. ❋ Unknown (1968)

There are only two German seaports with water of depth sufficient to accommodate the deep-drawing vessels in which foreign commerce is now mainly carried on -- namely, CUXHAVEN, the outport of Hamburg, sixty-five miles from ❋ Various (N/A)

Hamburg, and BREMERHAVEN, the outport of Bremen, thirty-five miles from Bremen, though recent improvements in the navigation of the Elbe allow vessels of even twenty-six feet draught to ascend the Elbe wholly to Hamburg. ❋ Various (N/A)

There is sickness at a little outport, diphtheria, I hear, and they want a man at once. ❋ George Van Schaick (N/A)

Mr. Jelliffe and he sent for me, a few days ago, after I returned from a trip to a near outport to see a sick woman, and asked me if I were willing to undertake it. ❋ George Van Schaick (N/A)