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   1 1987 FIZZARD 54 As the largest settlement in the bay, [Grand Bank] must have been a tempting target [for the French].
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   [1937] 1983 FROUDE 124 I baught a stock of dry goods and went Around the bay to sell them. 1987 PEYTON 116 He travelled around the bay for the government, placing floating incubators of lobster roe from the hatchery at Dildo, Trinity Bay, in various locations.
   [proverb]
   1986 Evening Telegram 2 Jan, p. 13 Although no longer in Newfoundland, the islanders [at Fort McMurray, Alberta] never forget where they came from. 'They say you can take the boy from the bay...but you can't take the bay out of the boy.'
   [child's rhyme]
   1979 PORTER 8 Married in grey, you'll live in the bay.
   4 Attrib, comb: bay boy, ~ caplin, ~ ice, bayman, ~ noddy, ~ run: rock band tour to various communities, ~ seal, ~ stock: concentration of year-around cod population in coastal waters, ~ wop.
   [1985] MAHER 6 [My mother closed up the house and went to Heart's Desire.] That's how I became a bay boy for the first six years of my life! 1987 POWELL 122-3 I found that [the cod] were living mainly on bay caplin, which is a small fish that stayed in the bay. 1986 Evening Telegram 7 Apr, p. 2 People living in the community of Hampden [White Bay] don't want the ice broken up [by the icebreaker] as people there are involved in logging during the winter and spring and use the bay ice for a roadway. 1988 PORTER 161 'Take the baymen out of St John's and you wouldn't have much left,' said the male voice. 1987 O'FLAHERTY 31 Someone else in the [St John's family] termed him 'a bay-noddy.' So he was. 1986 Nfld Herald 27 Dec, p. 30 There's a workable circuit on what bands affectionately call the 'bay run,' but there's an embarrassing shortage of live venues--especially for rock bands--in the capital city. 1986 SAUNDERS 63 We always carried our shotguns in case we spotted some sea ducks or a bay seal. P 245-87 'The inshore fishery report recommends that fisheries scientists investigate the existence and status of the various bay stocks.' 1987 Nfld Herald 14 Nov, p. 5 Up until a few years ago, people of the outports were looked down upon and referred to as 'baywops' by certain segments of the St John's population.

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