Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove

And it wasn't just about getting the distinctive lilt right.

We were down in Petty Harbour for a little bit.

A fisherman down there was teaching me how to tie my own nets, and I was also getting my fishing license and my small boat captain license, and it was so sudden.

You, you had to get your fishing license and your small craft license?

The book I wrote was, you know, it's about a small community.

And I'm from Petty Harbor.

You know, that whole experience about growing up in a small town, a small fishing community, it was near and dear to my heart.

So I wanted to make, you know, I was so pleased that we got this story right.

You've got a massive, amazing number of credits and big-time clients that you've worked with, but where did you start?

Well, I'm a, I'm a Petty Harbour boy, born and raised, you know, and it started for me there.

I remember, um, growing up you'd hear stories of a film, a film that had shot in Petty Harbour called Orca, which was, uh, a sort of, you know, Jaws had come out and had done really well, and it was sort of, you know, Hollywood's at bat to sort of have another go at d- doing a Jaws but with killer whales as opposed to, um, sharks.

And yeah, they, they shot in the '70s, uh, in Petty Harbour.

And so I always grew up hearing that lore, you know, that hometown lore.

Um, and I was a movie kid.

Hi.

This is Kimberly of Fishing for Success in Petty Harbour, and you're listening to The Broadcast.

Time now for some audience reaction.

Here's an email from Kyle Mulcahy.

What are you talking about? I, I think The Duke was my-

So there was a place, there was a place in Petty Harbour-

No

... that does really good fish and chips.

[laughs] I went to The Duke a couple times.

Uh, we were down in Petty Harbour, Harbour for a little bit.

I was, uh, speaking to a fisherm- fisherman down there who was teaching me how to tie my own nets and, uh, you know, teaching me all the rope trade that you need to learn, and I was also getting my fishing license and my, um, my small boat captain license.

You, you had to get your fishing license and your small craft license?

They are exactly the entertaining diversion my head needed from all the backbreaking shoveling going on.

In Where I Belong, he takes us back to his childhood home in Petty Harbour where the wharf was a workplace for 10-year-old kids.

The Doyles were the town band and knowing an Anne Murray song could persuade his aunts to let him stay up late during a family kitchen party.

In A Newfoundlander in Canada, he heads out across the country with Great Big Sea, Newfoundland's biggest musical export.

He has no memory of not being able to play guitar because that's the kind of family he grew up in where all of his uncles and his dad and they were the...

They were the entertainment in Petty Harbor where they're from.

Yep.

And they just, you know, whatever it was.

And so, yeah, I think, I guess my views on this, I'll admit this exactly, my views on this are very colored by having fought to stop the Department of Fisheries and Oceans from destroying the ground fish cod fishery of Newfoundland and Labrador in the late 80s.

And with a number of conservation-based folks, and particularly with strong leadership from fishing communities in Newfoundland and Labrador, folks like in Petty Harbor who actually went to court to try to stop the destruction of the cod fishery.

I mean, I think most Newfoundland and Labradorians know that that was a real crime and conducted by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and there was no accountability for it.

So my views are somewhat colored by that.