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Keir Knudsen

Kier Knudsen is a Newfoundland mariner and captain/interpreter with Northland Discovery Boat Tours and owner of Dark Tickle Expeditions in St. Lunaire-Griquet.

Sep 30, 2026

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And along the way I stopped at Dark Tickle, a museum, gift and coffee shop run by the same family for three generations over the past 100 years, as owner Keir Knudsen explains.
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Business originally started really with my grandfather in 1919.
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He came from a family of fishermen.
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Unfortunately, he got really seasick.
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So he had to find a way to make a living, basically.
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So he started, he kind of set up a shop in his father's fishing stage.
10:04
And that kind of evolved to selling all kinds of stuff, but also buying and collecting fish from people.
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After the fishing industry closure decimated the area, the family decided to diversify, calling the place Dark Tickle, after the Newfie name given to the nearby narrow point where the water goes between two landmasses, and began foraging Newfoundland berries, partridge, cloud, squash and blue, using them to make jams and preserves, which they are perhaps most famous for.

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