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[announcer] This is CBC.
[narrator] The treacherous journey by tin boat
and trolling motor,
and made palatable by folk songs of an earlier time,
lead the Neddeaus safely to the mainland.
The low arc of a late fall sun
the backdrop of their arrival.
[Eloida] Penny gums!
I'm gonna eat the whole lot
leave nothing but the box for you Elmer.
[Elene] I'mma eat the box too
if it taste like the dried corpse
of Cecelia's rainbow grave.
[Eloida] Last one to the store
makes a candle leaper of the old twitch fork.
[Elene] Not fair you started first.
No God gave you the weak foot.
Gotta keep your fight else
you be a *** like them bible kin.
[Vangeline] Girls keep your pounders in your pants fore
I come up or you'll be back in the water rocks in your shoes.
[Bichone] Elles! Do as your mother tells you.
Else I leave you turn to salt like Edith
and throw ya in the lac like tea dissolve there.
[Vangeline] Behind me now.
[muttering]
Girls!
Behind me now.
[narrator] Trade between the island
and mainland residence
provide enough economy to sustain life on Duqense.
'Vangeline's fine potato juice,
jams and small parcels of lumber sales
are exchanged at the general store
that serves these northern lands.
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[shouting]
[Bichon] Girls, put them in the bag!
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-Bread. -Hmm?
-Bread! -Braid?
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[Vangeline] Well, we do it every year,
so we know that's what it's gonna do.
Came here for four fifty.
There you are, Elles.
[Bichon] Alright.
Well, on the island there's only one way, you know.
Only one way around.
But, on the mainland there's no way.
Mainland goes on forever
I mean I'm not a belly dipped clam-kisser
I know there are other places and other islands and such.
But on the mainland there's...
You can go as far as you like I guess.
Do, what, what.
See them penguins all the way
at the tip of the earth if you like.
I think that's what I'll do next Avantiver.
Take one of these roads or one of these trains
and go all the way to see them penguins.
Run straight away.
Can't run too far on an island, you know,
always end up back where you started.
But on the mainland no telling how far you'll go.
That's why it's hard I guess, being the oldest.
No-one's done it before you, you know.
No one's there to tell you how far you'll go.
Or...
How to get back I guess.
If you can get back.
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[narrator] With all the supplies loaded aboard
and one last jig of the knot to set them loose,
the Neddeaus return home until the spring's great thaw.
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[all shouting]
[Bichon] What are you doing?
You get back in that boat now!
[all shouting]
[all shouting]
[all shouting]
[all shouting]
[all shouting]
[panting]
[panting]
[panting]
[panting]
Hello
I'm...
Elmer Neddeau
[panting]
And I live over there on Duqesne Island.
[panting]
[panting]
[panting]
[panting]
I'm Anne.
[panting]
[Eloida shouting]
[laughs]
[Eloida and Elene shouting]
[Eloida and Elene shouting]
[Eloida and Elene shouting]
[Eloida and Elene shouting]
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♪ When the snow it was a'falling down in 1863 ♪
♪ And trek across the island was in snow up to your knee ♪
♪ Many tried to make the journey ♪
♪ but they never could withstand ♪
♪ Until Elwood and his miracles came in to claim the land ♪
♪ The Neddeaus the Neddeaus ♪
♪ God only knows ♪
♪ How they came to Duqesne ♪
♪ By canoe I suppose ♪
♪ In the summer it was hot ♪
♪ In the winter they all froze ♪
♪ But by springtime they were smiling ♪
♪ With the wind upon their nose. ♪
♪ There were wars and there were famines ♪
♪ There were storms and there were droughts ♪
♪ But the eating of potatoes ♪
♪ kept the men from getting gout ♪
♪ So they forged ahead through brush ♪
♪ And they cut down lots of trees ♪
♪ And they built a hut to keep away ♪
♪ The blackflies and the fleas ♪
♪ The Neddeaus the Neddeaus ♪
♪ God only knows ♪
♪ How they came to Duqesne ♪
♪ By canoe I suppose ♪
♪ In the summer it was hot ♪
♪ In the winter they all froze ♪
♪ But by springtime they were smiling ♪
♪ With the wind upon their nose. ♪
♪ Now upon this rock the family sits ♪
♪ to guard their history ♪
♪ With the rocky shores and berry shrubs ♪
♪ And soaring white pine trees ♪
♪ If a person ever comes again ♪
♪ to claim this piece of land ♪
♪ The Neddeaus will band together ♪
♪ with their muskets in the their hands. ♪
♪ The Neddeaus the Neddeaus ♪
♪ God only knows ♪
♪ How they came to Duqesne ♪
♪ By canoe I suppose ♪
♪ In the summer it was hot ♪
♪ In the winter they all froze ♪
♪ But by springtime they were smiling ♪
♪ With the wind upon their nose. ♪
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