Greenspond has been, and still is, home to some incredible people with amazing stories. Our goal is to present some of these stories and provide biographical sketches for these wonderful individuals.
Greenspond People
- Andrews, Les | Interview 1967
- Barbour, Capt. George | Tribute by Capt Abram Kean 1928
- Bishop, Capt. Edward | Tribute by Capt Abram Kean 1927
- Blackwood, Capt. A. | Tribute by Capt Abram Kean 1938
- Bragg, Violet (Harding) | In Conversation
- Brown, Hedley | Interview 1988
- Burry, Clarence | Interview 1994
- Carter, Sam & Wilfred | In Conversation 1994
- Coward, Joshua | Interview 2005
- Granter, Bob | In Conversation 1997
- Granter, Robert 1929 | Tribute by Capt Abram Kean 1929
- Phillips, Elsie (Green) | Interview 1996
- Pond, William | Interview 1994
- White, Doug & Barbara | In Conversation 1995
- White, Jean (Burry) | Interview 1994
Greenspond Merchants
Newfoundland and Labrador’s outport economy depended not on cash, but on merchant credit. Each fall, fishers traded their annual harvest of salt-cod to local merchants for clothes, food, fishing gear, and other supplies from their stores. Fishers often received these goods earlier in the year on credit, but did not know the price at which they purchased them. Merchants set the price for goods taken on credit at the end of the fishing season, balancing the prices of goods against the prices merchants would get for fish in international markets. Such price manipulations maximized the opportunity for merchants to profit from the fish trade, but left their clients with the prospect of simply breaking even or falling into deeper debt each season. (The Truck System by Jenny Higgins, 2007).
Some of the merchants and business people who had regular dealings in Greenspond:
- James Ryan, Bonavista
- James Baird
- Philip Hutchins