Other postmistresses include Anastasia Antle, and Alice Ryan, who was postmaster for 30 years up until 1972 Families in the cove include Coates, Antles, Ryans, Conways, Moores, Kellys and Samms.

Trees close to the ocean are small, but a kilometre or so inland there is enough for firewood and for house- and boat-building.

Fishing even up to 1972 was carried out with 16th-century methods because the poverty of the local people could not allow expansion and purchase of little more than cod traps.

Even after a disastrous Newfoundland Light and Power "Live Better Electrically" campaign, people continued to heat with wood.

There was a one-room Catholic school until 1964; it closed, and pupils were then bussed to the nearby town of Winterton.