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.onethousandflowers.tv/about) and Kirk W ( / hightideimages )
Paintings courtesy Jenn Thornhill Verma (jennverma.ca/)
Select footage courtesy the AP Archive and Getty Images

[@Wendoverproductions]

First (ever)!

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First reply :D

[@stumblingupward723]

Does not count, the first ever is the other guy

[@mattfromowitz5690]

Subbed!

[@JuiceBoxScott]

Not fair

[@charlieverleysen9163]

I've watched all of the other podcasts, thank you sooo much for carrying on the series, love you sam!

[@aspacenerdfromflorida1134]

Hey "Extremities" guy, why have you copied that Interesting Half guy and kidnapped that Wendover guy to read your scripts?

[@liamhosking2947]

Lmao

[@deltadoobyd1621]

I mean, sorry.

[@ATIMELINEOFAVIATION]

lol 😆

[@stuartblittley3531]

LMAO PLS-

[@vorfour]

😆

[@jarodarmstrong]

“Cod are both perpetually lethargic and ceaselessly hungry…” Am I cod?

[@frigginjerk]

The spirit of cod is in all of us.

[@happyundertaker6255]

My question exactly

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

"...and, as such, gladly take bait and don't put up much of a fight once on a line." Yep, I'm definitely cod.

[@pornstarlivesmatter3319]

LOL I SAID THE SAME THING LOL

[@lordbabun]

It's god

[@jamesrussellangeles4054]

"Cod is dead. Cod remains dead. And we have killed Him" -Friedrich Nietzsche, 1992

[@elcohole100]

Activision are a bit slow

[@bingo784]

@@elcohole100 Activision are necromancy summoners, no way they could do what they do otherwise.

[@xp8969]

Idk man, sounds like cOmMuNiSm to me 🤷

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Nietzsche was behind the cod moratorium!

[@alpaykasal2902]

this is so good.

[@brodyharris7843]

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

[@manuelbonet]

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.

[@brodyharris7843]

@@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.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Really reinforces what Sam said about how these things don't exist in a vacuum.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

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.

[@uydagcusdgfughfgsfggsifg753]

Without even knowing where Little Bay was, I already could tell it’d be Newfoundland

[@alezacrespublik6655]

The Place where captain obvious named places

[@sangraal1140]

I was definitely thinking NL from the name. The second I heard the guy talking I knew for sure

[@bazsnell3178]

@@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.''

[@alezacrespublik6655]

@@bazsnell3178 addionally, The Northwest Territories, which are Territories on the northwest of Canada

[@spddiesel]

@@sangraal1140 same here, when hearing him speak. Who knew Letterkenny was educational TV? Lol

[@adityajakhalekar1950]

He is making separate channels for different types of topics so that he could keep the main channel for Planes

[@pranavagrawal9382]

Hey this guy is pretty good, he should make a chanel about other somewhat interesting things

[@mbedj1974]

Yeah, like bricks !

[@rocketryreuben]

idk man I feel like a channel like that would only be half as interesting tbh

[@halisen6045]

@@rocketryreuben 😂😂

[@texanfournow]

Yeah, like airplanes!

[@xp8969]

@@mbedj1974 I came for the bricks But I stayed for the 9:1 aspect ratio 😂☠😂☠😂

[@WilburLin]

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.

[@lukerobinson700]

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.

[@Duber121]

Cool hearing "not" wendover talk about my home province

[@TheOtherSteel]

This channel may need to be renamed: The Saddest Places in the World.

[@joost8176]

I know right! Such a depressing vibe in this video. I hope the others are less gloomy.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

I would call it "The World's -Least- Most Important Places"

[@davek303]

Newfoundland is BY FAR the saddest place on Earth. This video doesn't even scratch the surface.

[@Theorimlig]

The guy you interviewed has a very interesting accent, he kind of sounds like a mix of irish and northern english!

[@manuelbonet]

That's the Newfoundlander accent

[@irisheyes2747]

Its sounds like an irish emigrant to America.

[@liesdamnlies3372]

That’s because a vast majority of the Europeans who landed in Newfoundland were in fact Irish. His accent was _really_ mild too.

[@stormyaudio9969]

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

[@JesSuPer443]

Extremities is back!!

[@davidbryson4413]

Congrats!

[@leanderbarreto6523]

I thought it would be about animals' extremities

[@Josh-go1yf]

How did you manage to beat the creator to commenting on the video

[@therealdave06]

You're first ever on this channel! Faster than Wendover himself

[@scibanana3542]

How on Earth did you beat the creator of this video to the comment section? Better yet how is that even possible!?

[@connelylambert1814]

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.

[@gnatdagnat]

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.

[@emileroussell9876]

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?

[@fefe2222]

They are probably old and dont want to relocate from what they have known all their life.

[@texasforever7887]

Googled it. They are still there and had recently moved to the island and were prepared to live off grid.

[@cjwolfbane9466]

@@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.

[@Scientician.BovineUniversity]

Newfoundland is probably the most interesting place I have ever been to.

[@frigginjerk]

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.

[@Scientician.BovineUniversity]

@@frigginjerk I live very close to Lake Ontario, on the Canadian side near Toronto.

[@jimothypersson8306]

what interesting things are there to do/see?

[@Scientician.BovineUniversity]

@@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.

[@tklancer]

@@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.

[@TeTaongaKorora]

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

[@Fosos]

I was going to be productive today, then Extremities launched

[@bernmcnicholl8345]

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.

[@samkuzel]

I know he wasn't talking about me but when I heard "omnivorous bottom-feeder" my brain insisted on taking that as an insult.

[@TaRixnwOla]

Thanks for making this happen man!! Extremities was one of my favorite podcasts!!

[@genethebean7597]

I like the logo, reminds me of the old Aperture Industries from Portal 2

[@meowtherainbowx4163]

Thank you so much for bringing Extremities back! This was great!

[@Helpful_Corn]

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.

[@abturska]

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

[@BallisticDamages]

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!

[@rgeorgek42]

So you’re turning into Simon Whistler with all these channels? Seriously though, great visuals and stories. 🤙👍🎉

[@User31129]

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.

[@drewlovely2668]

@@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.

[@EvanRustMakes]

@@drewlovely2668 AM I RIGHT PETER!?

[@jbird4478]

@@User31129 I get you can't watch them all, but out of all his channels you picked the least interesting one.

[@JCO2002]

He's totally different - not irritating and smug.

[@GambinoTheGoat]

but while everyone leaving, steve was chilling in his underground gamer base

[@shelleycarr7715]

This was excellent! I look forward to more, I loved the podcast as well!

[@danielmerinsky467]

I love these documentaries, keep it up Sam!

[@BellaBarossa]

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.

[@Pogomeerschweinchen]

Thank you so much for this fantastic piece!

[@billy12715]

You make some of my favorite content on KZbin mate Love the new channel. Living on the east coast of Canada this story hits home. Thank you for telling it!

[@swahareddy8822]

I'm not crying, you are :(

[@Zapperr459]

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!

[@existentialcrisisactor]

This is so good! I can't wait to watch the next!

[@MsSocrates86]

Amazing work! Keep'em coming!

[@Squigglydodah]

This is really good thanks!

[@ChilkoNZ]

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!

[@redgringrumboldt8983]

This was excellent! I love learning about these small remote communities. Sad to see what happened to this one.

[@AnthonyParcmans]

This is great please keep making them

[@scopeyourpeace3975]

Subbed and notifications turned on. Love your videos!!

[@sagacious03]

Okay video! Thanks for uploading!

[@joostverra9130]

so excited that extremities is back!

[@abbeyna01]

Excellent journalism! ♥️

[@jackthompson8560]

That was awesome. I will look forward to the new shows

[@a.blinkan8538]

Hey Sam, this was great!

[@jmac1099]

awesome as usual. Am i the only one that now wants to move there? i live in a moderate city and this sounds great.

[@ShoelessJP]

Absolutely tragic. Thank you for sharing Little Bay's story.

[@yl95]

Thank you for telling the stories!

[@frigginjerk]

Having never heard of this place before watching this video, I get the impression that the government of Canada handled the relocation about as well as a national government could. Not that there's any way to make it a good experience for the residents, but the 90 percent vote thing impressed me. I took it as meaning, "We won't force you to move if you really don't want to, but we do really, really think you should." Can anyone with more direct experience correct my perception?

[@matthewbriffett4184]

Well no one really felt relocation improved their lives. Originally there wasn't much choice in the matter, the revival in the 2000s was much more humane. That said most people only leave because they're getting older and need access to services as well as a lack of work for their younger families. I'm sure more than 90% would not have relocated if they could reasonably stay or they really had a choice in the original instances.

[@anandatheertansrinivasan49]

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!!!

[@hayleyharrington599]

Sam this is exactly what the people (me) wanted thank u for giving life back to extremities

[@theangrypainter826]

What a amazing story! So well told. Thank you.

[@supergeek02468]

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.

[@xp8969]

No way, I came for the bricks But I stayed for the 9:1 aspect ratio

[@tylerbaker7761]

You can slightly zoom in to the video by pinching the screen so it fits a bit better 👍🏻

[@krissp8712]

@@tylerbaker7761 good tip, thanks!

[@madeleine3548]

this is very epic, sammy

[@jamesmark1191]

I enjoyed that video. There are many places like that and I enjoyed learning about them.

[@DartzinhoV]

As a Portuguese, I feel somewhat responsible for the death of Cod, and Little Bay Islands, so I’d like to apologize

[@thommunistmanifesto]

It's ok

[@platinum-or3y]

@Hernando Malinche i hate how everyone pretends canada is this perfect place lmao

[@vp9549]

@@platinum-or3y I mean when you compare Canada to it's noisy downstairs neighbor, they at least seem to somewhat care about the humans lol

[@______608]

@@vp9549 Seems like you haven't heard of the residential schools loll

[@vp9549]

@@______608 I haven't actually. I would love to hear about it from you.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

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.

[@ninja650rn]

I loved the podcast, I’m excited to see some visuals

[@andrewobrien5453]

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

[@MixMeMcGee]

This is such a beautiful way of telling stories, And telling these peoples stories is beautiful. Thanks 🙏🏻

[@TrafficCamWatch]

I'm gonna love this new channel - isolated/abandoned locations are interesting to me. If only I could actually boat to them...

[@christopherpopa8661]

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 KZbin videos, but I really like your work, brother!

[@maxhart8814]

man i love these videos, watched all 3 allready, when's the next one coming?

[@fufumccuddlypoops5502]

Really great content

[@ToBusyGaming]

Amazing!!

[@2Links]

The series is back!

[@bethbosheers8096]

Very interesting and well researched. Thank you for this great entertainment.😎

[@kyleatienza3773]

I miss the podcast so much I'm glad to find this video

[@TheSlavChef]

Wohoooo! New Channel!!!

[@Thenewfieboy92]

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 !

[@sluggedbacon9255]

Yay,new channel

[@Pixelanon]

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!

[@fresusjeak]

Well done!

[@jstnrgrs]

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.

[@quabey_]

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.

[@Rawi888]

Two super high quality channels…. I’m… so… so happy right now.

[@squa_81]

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

[@squa_81]

and yes, i enjoyed this video :D

[@FakeFreckles]

Thank you for making Extremities a KZbin channel

[@Joshy-]

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.

[@pg-l4469]

That was amazing! I love the first video being on Canada! Makes my little patriotic heart beat a bit harder!

[@Robersora]

This was very emotional

[@NewfieCatgirl]

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.

[@Fermillon9181]

Yeah, this channel is going to be great!

[@fabian5550]

Wow, that was great!

[@thedarknightnicht]

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

[@alanwilneff9703]

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.

[@InfiniteHorizons]

So nice to see my home province getting mention from a famous channel!

[@BlaudracheLP]

This was Double as Interesting :)

[@joshualawrance2508]

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

[@seeth0710]

Wendover: cod is dead Me: *cries in portuguese*

[@xp8969]

Fake news, this is the guy from HAI 😂

[@User31129]

No backup plan to a singular industry that was once massively profitable but died because of globalization? Flint Michigan has entered the chat.

[@InnuendoXP]

Backup plans are hard when geography-based industry is the only reason it exists in the firstplace. Pre modern-industrislisation, it worked well enough for most of human history when these activities were sustainable.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Globalization plus government nonsense is a powerful combination.

[@monsieurlee]

I bet Mike and Georgina Parsons didn't wear a facemask once last year.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

They certainly kept more than six feet of distance.

[@mandalor45]

I really appreciate a video of hardships of many in my home province

[@dantetre]

7:55 it is never a good sign when a British/English ship shows up on your own shore!

[@danrubin4506]

Beautiful beautiful place. Visited there to perform at one of their final events.🎉

[@If0n702]

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!

[@TheKlabim]

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.