Down to Sally's Cove: Newfoundland Stories by Ella Manuel

Here Ella Manuel faces frustration as she challenges power company regulations, but finally succeeds in connecting her new house on the hill in Woody Point to electric power.  

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Having discovered the beauty of Woody Point and its friendly people, Ella Manuel decided to build a house for herself. Little did she know the challenges and frustrations that awaited her as she befuddled the builders with her plans.

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A few years after her Lomond venture, having sold Killdevil Lodge to the Anglican Church, Ella Manuel returned to Bonne Bay. She rented a house for the summer in Woody Point, made many new friends, and began to think of settling down. 

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 Ella Manuel returned in the mid-1940s to Newfoundland, a divorced mother of two small boys. Chatting with American sportsman Lee Wulff about the need for fly-fishing camps in north-western Newfoundland, she suddenly decided to start a sports-fishing venture. In Lomond, the once busy logging town in Bonne Bay, she set up a summer-time operation at Killdevil Lodge. Though it did not prosper, Ella gloried in the beauty of her surroundings.  

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In the 1940s, as Ella Manuel was thinking of how to earn a living in Western Newfoundland, she met some disgruntled fly-fishermen from the southern United States. This may have led to the sports-fishing venture she later developed at Killdevil Lodge.

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Growing up in Lewisporte in northeastern Newfoundland, Ella Manuel acquired a love of fishing that stayed with her for the rest of her life. In this story she tells of days on the rivers of western Newfoundland and of her encounters with men who could not accept the idea of a woman fishing expertly. On the Lomond River she glories in the thrill of fly fishing, and first hears about the remarkable Emma Tapper, who was completely at home on any river.   

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