Town of Garnish testimonials
July 2021
Thank you Garnish for the warm welcome you give the out of town boys working in your beautiful town. The one thing I miss most of all about Garnish are the people.
L. Nicholson
Former Resident
August 2021
We saw more of Garnish and the Burin Peninsula than we had seen 41 years ago. I loved our walks at Winterland Trail, Frenchman's Cove, the trail we walked in Marystown, Salts Pond, and the beach outside of Garnish where you walked my legs off! We enjoyed every conversation and had some good laughs.
Lilian Edwards
Visitor
May 2021
Thank-you to the town of Garnish for Honouring those soldiers who lived in the town of Garnish. Who are presently serving or retired from the Canadian Armed Forces, and served overseas in Afganistan. It was a nice gesture and kind thaughts. It was warm to my heart. Once again Thank you for those kind thaughts.
Terry Hurst
Visitor
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Family Day Outings
Golden sands just a 10 minute drive

History

Shipbuilding

Town Of Garnish

As in the majority of Newfoundland outports, the fishery has been the economic mainstay of Garnish since the first days of settlement. The barrisway around which the town is built provides a natural small-boat harbour where fisherman can moor their craft. The inshore fishery is still an important industry today. The barrisway also served as a natural site to build the banking schooners which were the major technology of the Grand Banks fishery during the years before and after the First and Second Great World Wars.  The wooded area around Garnish Pond supplied much of the timber, and the Garnish River was used to get it to the sawmills downstream.  Included among those schooners launched at Garnish were the Jean and Mona, Joan and Madelyn, Daphane and Phyllis and Garnish Queen.