Each spring, Jack Casey of Conche would set out in his rodney and row twelve to fourteen miles to the Grey Islands in search of seals. "It was a long row,” he remembered. “The worst part was…”

When building boats, Jack Casey uses a set of moulds that once belonged to his grandfather, Michael Casey. When Michael Casey arrived in Conche in 1850, he made a set of moulds which he…

As is common practice in Newfoundland and Labrador, Jack Casey of Conche cut all his timber in the fall of the year. “We had a camp in there, about 8 miles… We’d walk in there and cut our timber and pile it up on…

John (Jack) Thomas Casey was born on July 2, 1922 in Conche, a small fishing community on Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula. One of eight children born to Michael and Nora Casey, Jack started working in the lumber woods at only seven years old and…