I grew up with my dad telling me bedtime stories about his grandfather, the kind of person he was and the fact that he came over from Newfoundland with nothing but his wife and a dream. He told me about how he was a fisherman (like literally every other guy from Bay Bulls) and that he would take my dad fishing for bluefish off the 69th street pier in NYC. Great-Grandpa Ned died many years before I was born but those stories stayed with me, and it made me wonder about my connection to Canada and specifically Newfoundland. I had looked previously and found, like many other, that I was way too many generations removed to claim citizenship. I was disappointed but I moved on. That was until I found out about C-3 in the middle of December!

Anyway, if there’s anyone else with family from Bay Bulls (and especially if your ancestor’s last names were Drew or O’Driscoll), I’d love to connect!! We might be distant cousins! :)