CNHS - Tilting Cultural Landscape - Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador
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N 49° 42.182 W 054° 03.471
21U E 712136 N 5509769
Tilting is a living cultural landscape that encompasses natural and built places that together depict traditional outport life.
Waymark Code: WMPB8Q
Location: Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Date Posted: 08/02/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Weathervane
Views: 3

The plaque reads:
Irish settlers began to shape this landscape from about the 1730s, building houses and fishing rooms around the harbour to support the inshore fishery. Influenced by the inheritance customs of their homeland, Tilting's residents subdivided the original land lots, developing clusters of extended family neighbourhoods. They also adapted the Irish tradition of keeping gardens, with those near the home more intensively cultivated and those farther away used mainly for hay or crops for winter storage. Like other Newfoundlanders, they enclosed their fields with wooden fences and pastured livestock on the open commons. Many of Tilting's landscape components, including the harbour, the extensive gardens near Sandy Cove and Oliver's Cove, and the summer and winter paths, are used in much the same way today as in the past. While continuing to evolve, this community retains an unusually complete range of vernacular building types, and the arrangements and interrelationships of traditional buildings and spaces have largely been maintained. Still inhabited by descendants of its early families, Tilting survives as a rare example of a once common Irish- Newfoundland cultural landscape.


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Des colons irlandais commencèrent à façonner le paysage de Tilting à partir des années 1730, construisant maisons et bâtiments utilitaires autour du port de pêche côtière. Influencés par les coutumes successorales de leur pays d'origine, les habitants subdivisèrent leurs lots de terre, formant des unités de voisinage basées sur le clan familial. Ils adaptèrent aussi la tradition irlandaise des jardins, gardant près de la maison ceux destinés à la culture intensive et, plus éloignés, ceux pour le foin et les récoltes qui seront engrangés pour l'hiver. Comme d'autres Terre-Neuviens, ils entourèrent leurs champs de clôtures de bois et firent paître le bétail sur des terres communes. A peu de chose près, l'usage des nombreux éléments du paysage, tels le port, les grands jardins près de Sandy Cove et d'Oliver's Cove et les sentiers d'été et d'hiver, perdure encore aujourd'hui. Tout en continuant à évoluer, Tilting conserve une gamme exceptionnellement complète de bâtiments vernaculaires. L'emplacement et les interrelations de ces édifices et des espaces traditionnels ont été en grande partie maintenus. Toujours habité par des descendants des premières familles, Tilting demeure un rare exemple de ce type, jadis courant, de paysage culturel irlando-terre-neuvien.
Classification: National Historic Site

Province or Territory: Newfoundland & Labrador

Location - City name/Town name: Tilting, Fogo Island

Link to Parks Canada entry (must be on www.pc.gc.ca): [Web Link]

Link to HistoricPlaces.ca: [Web Link]

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