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"We all had a special bond with Wayne Bartlett. A best friend," said Quirpon resident Leona Patey. But he was also well known as a problem solver and a jack of all trades, able to turn his hands to everything from welding and broadcasting to carpentry and photography. The name was a reference to the high winds that routinely howl across the landscape and stir the ocean into a frenzy, but also a humorous take on Bartlett's reputation as a long-winded storyteller.īartlett's passion was music and storytelling, say his friends, and his desire to preserve the traditions and culture of a bygone era. Over the past decade, Bartlett and his partner, Cheryl McCarron, became players in the tourism industry as the operators of a bed and breakfast called the Big Blow.
Wayne Bartlett was born and raised in Quirpon, a remote community at the tip of the Northern Peninsula with a history in the fishery that dates back more than five centuries.īartlett spent some time in the fishery, leaving the province on several occasions for work in Alberta and Ontario but always returning to his roots. He wanted the old ways to be remembered and that was his driving force," Andy Bartlett, Wayne's son, said Monday.Īndy Bartlett was reached by phone at the Central United Church, just outside Quirpon, where family and friends were gathering to pay tribute to a man known throughout the province for his songwriting, singing and storytelling.
The man who penned and performed one of the defining songs of the cod moratorium era in Newfoundland and Labrador, Wayne Bartlett of Quirpon, has died.īartlett died Friday, just two days after turning 67, and more than two years into a battle with cancer. Quirpon's Wayne Bartlett, the man responsible for one of the defining songs of the cod moratorium, has died at age 67.