Garnish population of 542 as of the 2021 census can trace its history back more than two and a half centuriesto 1763, when the first Grandys were unceremoniously moved from the French island of St. Pierre tothelittle town on Newfoundland's Burin Peninsula.

Ben Banfield went off to war in 1939. He would not see his family again for six years long after he had been presumed dead.

The isolated island community of Gaultois, on Newfoundland's south coast, has gone through many changes in its more than 200-year history from being home to many Indigenous people to eventually being settled by the French and British pursuing the fishery in the area. Contributor Allan Stoodley takes a trip through history.