Little Bay: Why This Island Was Abandoned on December 31st, 2019
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Writing by Tristan Purdy
Editing by Alexander Williard
Audio by Graham Haerther
Motion graphics by Josh Sherrington and Maddy
Thumbnail design by Simon Buckmaster
Project management by Gina Giorgi
Footage courtesy Millefiore Clarkes (www.onethousan...) and Kirk W ( / hightideimages )
Paintings courtesy Jenn Thornhill Verma (jennverma.ca/)
Select footage courtesy the AP Archive and Getty Images
First (ever)!
First reply :D
Subbed!
Not fair
I've watched all of the other podcasts, thank you sooo much for carrying on the series, love you sam!
Leaving my reply here to be part of history lol, or as a reminder that I was here
"Cod is dead. Cod remains dead. And we have killed Him"
-Friedrich Nietzsche, 1992
Activision are a bit slow
@@elcohole100 Activision are necromancy summoners, no way they could do what they do otherwise.
Idk man, sounds like cOmMuNiSm to me 🤷
Nietzsche was behind the cod moratorium!
this is so good.
“Cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry…”
Am I cod?
The spirit of cod is in all of us.
My question exactly
"...and, as such, gladly take bait and don't put up much of a fight once on a line."
Yep, I'm definitely cod.
LOL I SAID THE SAME THING LOL
It's god
Coming from a different small outport community in Newfoundland this hits pretty hard. This is an amazing video that really captures the hardships outport communities have faced since the cod moratorium
Seeing your personal involvement in the situation and if you don't mind me asking, what's your personal opinion on the moratorium? As an outsider, I can see that it is a measure to try to restore the ecosystem after the aggressive fishing practices that took place in the region, but it is undeniable that it has also negatively affected the economies of these small communities, so I was wondering how people in the region feel about the cod moratorium.
@@manuelbonet I see the moratorium as a necessary evil. Growing up surrounded by fishing families and coming from one myself I can see that everyone wants to be able to return to the way of life their ancestors practiced for generations. But I also understand that it’s not going to be sustainable if the moratorium is lifted before the populations recover. Cod fishing is a part of life here and while the moratorium certainly took that from the people it’s also one of the few preventative measures that could’ve been put in place to preserve that way of life for the future generations.
Really reinforces what Sam said about how these things don't exist in a vacuum.
If there’s a big lesson here, it’s that the moratorium didn’t come nearly fast enough, and our navy didn’t start turning-away foreign vessels fast enough either. This collapse is devastating and really shows the damage we can do as a species when we mismanage natural resources so badly.
He is making separate channels for different types of topics so that he could keep the main channel for Planes
Hey "Extremities" guy, why have you copied that Interesting Half guy and kidnapped that Wendover guy to read your scripts?
Lmao
I mean, sorry.
lol 😆
LMAO PLS-
😆
Without even knowing where Little Bay was, I already could tell it’d be Newfoundland
The Place where captain obvious named places
I was definitely thinking NL from the name. The second I heard the guy talking I knew for sure
@@alezacrespublik6655 Talking of Mr. Obvious.
There's a huge desert of sand in Australia and you'll never guess in a million years the name they gave to it on their maps......
Oh, you're ahead of me on this one?
(mind-reading employed here) You're absolutely right. ''The Great Sandy Desert.''
@@bazsnell3178 addionally, The Northwest Territories, which are Territories on the northwest of Canada
@@sangraal1140 same here, when hearing him speak. Who knew Letterkenny was educational TV? Lol
Lots of jokes about HAI and stuff here which is fun. But I have to say, this is such a new height for you guys, the visuals, the sound design, and, wow, the eloquent narrative brilliantly written. Congratulations on your achievement here.
Hey this guy is pretty good, he should make a chanel about other somewhat interesting things
Yeah, like bricks !
idk man I feel like a channel like that would only be half as interesting tbh
@@rocketryreuben 😂😂
Yeah, like airplanes!
@@mbedj1974 I came for the bricks
But I stayed for the 9:1 aspect ratio 😂☠😂☠😂
Being part of the statistic that moved away out west, it was difficult watching without tearing up at some points. I know that most Newfoundlanders long for the day that the economic outlook is good enough to move back home, the connection that Island people feel to their home is unbelievably strong. Thank you for this video, Sam. I had to come over and watch it again after seeing it on your main channel, excellent content and I hope to see more.
Cool hearing "not" wendover talk about my home province
The guy you interviewed has a very interesting accent, he kind of sounds like a mix of irish and northern english!
That's the Newfoundlander accent
Its sounds like an irish emigrant to America.
That’s because a vast majority of the Europeans who landed in Newfoundland were in fact Irish. His accent was _really_ mild too.
Sadly myself being a Newfoundlander the accent is slowly dying out, where I'm originally from the accent os still there but in the bigger towns its very faint.
The one thing that doesn't change though is the slang and the way we say words, dropping the H or extending the A but that tang in the rest is almost non existent
This channel may need to be renamed: The Saddest Places in the World.
I know right! Such a depressing vibe in this video. I hope the others are less gloomy.
I would call it "The World's -Least- Most Important Places"
Newfoundland is BY FAR the saddest place on Earth. This video doesn't even scratch the surface.
I'd really like to know more about the two who stayed... how are they going to sustain themselves? Why did they choose to stay as only TWO people? That was the most interesting part of the video for me.
I totally agree with you i am super curious why they stayed there, loyalty to where they were born, old age and not wanting to change their way of life?
They are probably old and dont want to relocate from what they have known all their life.
Googled it. They are still there and had recently moved to the island and were prepared to live off grid.
@@texasforever7887 Yes. I read they'd worked for years in Ontario and wanted a quiet, peaceful retirement in a scenic place. They were going for exactly what everyone there were leaving for- but they probably had the money saved up to do it, whereas the ones leaving were looking for opportunities or for closer access to medical services.
I know this'll get swallowed up in a sea of other comments, but I just wanted to say this video moved me deeply and got me thinking about the massive forces in the world and my place in them. Videos like these are a force for good in the world, and I hope you keep making well made and significant content like this.
Extremities is back!!
Congrats!
I thought it would be about animals' extremities
How did you manage to beat the creator to commenting on the video
You're first ever on this channel! Faster than Wendover himself
How on Earth did you beat the creator of this video to the comment section? Better yet how is that even possible!?
Newfoundland is probably the most interesting place I have ever been to.
The accent sounds vaguely Irish to me. I like that. As an American who lives less than 100 km across the lake from Toronto, I'm very familiar with the standard-issue Canadian accent, so the novel zing of a Newfie accent is much appreciated.
@@frigginjerk I live very close to Lake Ontario, on the Canadian side near Toronto.
what interesting things are there to do/see?
@@jimothypersson8306 We hiked on the rocks along the ocean, some 20 metres above. It was breathtaking and very quiet. We also checked out a couple of historic sites and museums.
@@jimothypersson8306 St. John's is a great small city, and there's tons of beautiful hiking up and down the East Coast Trail, as well as two national parks.
There are actually a huge number of small settlements that have been abandoned on islands like that in Newfoundland. My grandfather was born on one of these in 1920s, eventually the island was abandoned and they moved to the Gander area of Newfoundland. When I was little we could take a skidoo on the sea ice all the way to the old settlement, it's been about 5-6 years since that was possible thanks to lack of ice.... Thank you for highlighting this topic, I'm looking forward to more great vids on this channel!
I know he wasn't talking about me but when I heard "omnivorous bottom-feeder" my brain insisted on taking that as an insult.
I live in newfoundland gander currently on change islands and I visited little bay islands 1 week ago I got there from my pops speedboat its a beautiful place!
This really tugged at the heartstrings. I'm in the opposite side of the world, but I felt all the poignancy of the end of this little island's history.
Great video, Sam. Loved the Extremities podcasts; this is even better.
The Seduction of Dr Lewis/The Grand Seduction is a beautiful film (and remake) about a community like this facing relocation- definitely worth checking out
I don't know how I could have missed it, but did he talk about the two people who stayed behind? Toward the end, he mentioned that they were the Parsons. But that's all I caught about them.
Pretty sad, that for 300-400 years, these local Out Port Fishing communities used low environmental impact fishing, sustainable, communities thrived. Then in 10 years it was destroyed by greed, factory ships dredging the sea floor until it was barren.
Really excited to see Extremeties in video form! As cool as the podcast content was, I am a visual person and I much prefer being able to watch things while I'm listening to them. :D
So you’re turning into Simon Whistler with all these channels? Seriously though, great visuals and stories. 🤙👍🎉
I like Simon but I stick to Top 10's. My interest is already worn thin and I have a very high bar for new subscriptions. You have to when you work 40 hours a week, and are married with 2 kids.
Do you know of the Dark 5/Dark Docs guy? He just opened his SEVENTH channel recently. He releases I would guess 8-10 videos a week across all the channels. It's a small challenge keeping up.
@@User31129 Simon is prodomimemtly who I watch. Joe Scott, Scott manly, Terra matter, and fact fiend make up the rest of my feed. I consider all of them to be high quality.
Also I would add business blaze by Simon to replace top tenz. It is so much more entertaining, he actually has a personality on that channel.
@@drewlovely2668 AM I RIGHT PETER!?
He's totally different - not irritating and smug.
It's interesting how, instead of focusing on insanely remote places, like the podcast did, the new Extremities is about places that are right around the corner from the rest of civilization. It feels crazy thinking about how places that seem tethered can be so isolated and lose everything so quickly.
I was going to be productive today, then Extremities launched
This was excellent! I love learning about these small remote communities. Sad to see what happened to this one.
I like the logo, reminds me of the old Aperture Industries from Portal 2
Hey, Newfoundlander here. Amazing video. I have family in another outport island and it scares me that the place I visit every summer will go.
Much love.
Hey Sam! Not sure if you're looking for recommendations, but if you are, I would recommend talking about Santa Cruz del Islote, In Colombia. It might qualify as an interesting location for this channel!
Very similar to Ramea, Newfoundland its a very small ocean village and relied on cod fish and when the market died it too became very close to gone but luckily has continued with ferry service and a future hope. Great video !
awesome as usual. Am i the only one that now wants to move there? i live in a moderate city and this sounds great.
I'm gonna love this new channel - isolated/abandoned locations are interesting to me. If only I could actually boat to them...
That was amazing! I love the first video being on Canada! Makes my little patriotic heart beat a bit harder!
Crazy to think that some towns were simply born to serve an economic or otherwise temporarily-essential purpose and eventually had their sun set on them forever. Eerie stuff. Beautiful video, I am super excited for more of Extremities!
I’m glad you’re back! Are you going to start making Extremities podcast episodes again? I really enjoyed them pre-pandemic. I don’t normally comment on TH-cam videos, but I really like your work, brother!
Sam this is exactly what the people (me) wanted thank u for giving life back to extremities
I really liked your podcast, and I'm glad to see this format come out. Please let nebula know that they really need a roku channel. I did subscribe, but I won't renew if I can't watch on Roku.
This is such a beautiful way of telling stories, And telling these peoples stories is beautiful. Thanks 🙏🏻
Thank you for making this video. I just saw an ad for a cabin on little bay island. Makes me sad, I want to move to my fathers island resettled sixty years ago.
Absolutely tragic. Thank you for sharing Little Bay's story.
V.good! i used to randomly search for extreme and remote islands outposts and now its a fun treat to watch their backstory too... Thanks soo much!!!
Thanks for making this happen man!! Extremities was one of my favorite podcasts!!
As a german growing up in a rural but wel connected town this was so amazing to watch. Germany is quite densely populated and heavily urbanized so this remoteness and self sustaining character is new to me.
Nevertheless I feel like there is something beautiful about it and kind of something right. I am endlessly glad for all technological and societal progress we have but living in a small close knit community your whole life, knowing the land you lived will be the land you die has something calming about it. Something ancestral
Two super high quality channels…. I’m… so… so happy right now.
Thank you Sam. I’m a Newfoundlander and I just want to appreciate you for how great the video was. (Also thanks for pronouncing the name right, even if it took a bit.)
What a amazing story! So well told. Thank you.
This video is double letterboxed for me on an iPhone 12. I’d love to see it uploaded at its native aspect ratio instead of 16x9 with baked in black bars.
No way, I came for the bricks
But I stayed for the 9:1 aspect ratio
You can slightly zoom in to the video by pinching the screen so it fits a bit better 👍🏻
@@tylerbaker7761 good tip, thanks!
You make some of my favorite content on TH-cam mate Love the new channel. Living on the east coast of Canada this story hits home. Thank you for telling it!
I loved the podcast, and I’m so happy that the show is back! But Im a bit sad that there won’t be a super detailed story like in the podcast.
Thank you so much for bringing Extremities back! This was great!
I love these documentaries, keep it up Sam!
This video is excellent! Amazing story telling, very informative about something I had idea about, and a strong message at the end. I enjoy the more serious tone compared to your other channels - I'm excited to follow this on Nebula!
While I've never been, I have always heard of Little Bay growing up. it's sad to hear that they've been relocated for over a year now.
I enjoyed that video. There are many places like that and I enjoyed learning about them.
As a Portuguese, I feel somewhat responsible for the death of Cod, and Little Bay Islands, so I’d like to apologize
It's ok
@Hernando Malinche i hate how everyone pretends canada is this perfect place lmao
@@avery-u1w I mean when you compare Canada to it's noisy downstairs neighbor, they at least seem to somewhat care about the humans lol
@@vp9549 Seems like you haven't heard of the residential schools loll
@@______608 I haven't actually. I would love to hear about it from you.
I'm not crying, you are :(
I miss the podcast so much I'm glad to find this video
Thank you so much for this fantastic piece!
but while everyone leaving, steve was chilling in his underground gamer base
man i love these videos, watched all 3 allready, when's the next one coming?
what a story, and to think there is so many more. the world is a tragedy, a comedy, and an epic tail at the same time. history moves on, always
and yes, i enjoyed this video :D
Hey Sam, good job on this!! Even if a few details were a bit off, you clearly put in a lot of effort to understand a complicated topic, and I appreciate you.
Awesome vid! A video on the Oombulgurri Community being abandoned in Western Australia would be a cool topic to made a video like this about
I don’t understand how the algorithm creates a gap in between one episode and the next. This is my first time watching this channel but oddly it seems like it’s actually your first video
Subbed and notifications turned on. Love your videos!!
That was awesome. I will look forward to the new shows
This was excellent! I look forward to more, I loved the podcast as well!
Thank you for making Extremities a TH-cam channel
I'm descended from fishing folks from a Nova Scotia outport abandoned in 1924. Some never got over the loss of their old island home.
Beautiful beautiful place. Visited there to perform at one of their final events.🎉
This is such a sad story. 😔 very well told but sad.
Brilliant video! Could you expand on how the remaining 2 people are going to live with no utilities?
I meet the last two people living there 1 week ago and I went to have look around inside his garage/shed its like a museum!
Wow! I love this channel so much and when I saw there was a video about the province I’m from I got so excited
Hey Sam, this was great!
This is really good thanks!
So nice to see my home province getting mention from a famous channel!
Excellent journalism! ♥️
Damn man how many channels do you have?
Okay video! Thanks for uploading!
so excited that extremities is back!
This is great please keep making them
Very interesting and well researched. Thank you for this great entertainment.😎
The previous podcast series on St. Helena, Pitcairn, and Svalbard are places that are really very isolated. I looked up Little Bay Islands on the map and it is only about 3 miles from the main island of Newfoundland. While it is sad that their community is dying I wonder how far away most of them are moving. If they moved to the main island then they could get a boat to take them back pretty quickly and spend some time there.
But the settlement were as isolated practically while being isolated.
*self sufficient
I loved the podcast, I’m excited to see some visuals
The town I come from has about 100 people that live there, and its considered a “unincorporated community” whatever that means. Its always interesting to see what happens to these small towns around the world.
unincorporated means a group of homes without a town council or government. Likely governed by a regional government or directly by the Provincial Government (I don’t know the exact system in Newfoundland).
this is very epic, sammy
Amazing work! Keep'em coming!
The series is back!
This is so good! I can't wait to watch the next!
There are some extreme weather stations to look in to. Alert, Eureka, and one other one that had to be abandoned. It was too hard to live at the third one! The weather was too extreme! All are up in the far reaches of Arctic Canada. Also, do a story on the International Space Station. That’s about as extreme as you can get! 😎 keep up the nice work. I love your series! It sparks the imagination. David from extremely humid Houston, Texas.
Thank you for telling the stories!
is the podcast-format dead or will you resume doing podcast (and extremities videos) when its safe again? I really enjoyed the podcasts and it would be very sad if there wouldnt be any more.
nontheless, your skill in triggering emotions with the calm video and great music is excellent! certainly the best I know here on youtube.
7:55 it is never a good sign when a British/English ship shows up on your own shore!
Haha I really enjoy how it started out as "New-Fin-Lin" and a few minutes later says "New-Found-land" the rest of the video. Nice!
Funny cause neither are the correct pronunciation
It's pronounced new FIN land not new found land, new Finland, new fin lund or any other variation even though you'll always hear them when non locals speak
This was very emotional
Perhaps you could make a video about the stilt houses of the Kampong Phluk village in Cambodia. I have been there during the dry season when the water was low but all of the buildings are on stilts to deal with the rising waters during the rainy season.