In 1980 I bought a small house on a cliff on the sea in Ship Cove, the oldest fishing village in Newfoundland. The first Dawes to come to North America from Devon, England in 1597 came to Ship Cove. In 1982 I began to photograph my neighbours, many of them Dawes. I photographed them during Easter 1982 after a fierce winter storm which 'kept women indoors'. In 1994, 12 years later I again photographed the same people. Newfoundland in many ways is one of the last frontiers on the planet. It's Canada's best-kept secret.

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