Map showing the location of Little Fogo Island in Newfoundland and Labrador
Open in Atlas

Place

Little Fogo Island

neighbourhood

Map location of Little Fogo Island

Scenes set here

  • Cover of The Wreckage
    The Wreckage

    Michael Crummey

    On Little Fogo Island in 1940, itinerant Catholic projectionist Wish Furey screens films and meets sixteen-year-old Mercedes (Sadie) Parsons in the audience — the encounter that…

Books here

  • Cover of The Wreckage by Michael Crummey
    settingThe Wreckage

    Michael Crummey

    Crummey's 2005 novel opens in a Protestant fishing community on Little Fogo Island in 1940. Multiple sources (Q&Q review, publisher jacket copy at McNally Robinson and PRH Canada) independently identify Little Fogo Island as the precise setting of the Newfoundland storyline.

References

  1. 1.The Wreckage: Quill & Quire review of The Wreckage (2005); cross-referenced with publisher jacket copy at https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780385660617/michael-crummey/wreckage