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George Pearce’s Root Cellar, Elliston

George Pearce’s Root Cellar is also commonly referred to as Rex Chaulk’s Root Cellar. Built in 1859, this hillside cellar has a small portion of its stacked stone […]

Tom Porter’s Root Cellar, Elliston

Tom Porter’s hillside root cellar was built in 1879 and features a stone exterior and wooden door on its exterior. This cellar has an interesting piece of local […]

Newman and Company Root Cellar, Harbour Breton, Newfoundland

Now in ruins, the Newman and Company’s root cellar was a two storey building constructed on their plantation. It was partially dug into a hillside; the lower storey […]

Newman and Company Root Cellar, Harbour Breton, Newfoundland

Now in ruins, the Newman and Company’s root cellar was a two storey building constructed on their plantation. It was partially dug into a hillside; the lower storey […]

Newman and Company Root Cellar, Harbour Breton, Newfoundland

Now in ruins, the Newman and Company’s root cellar was a two storey building constructed on their plantation. It was partially dug into a hillside; the lower storey […]

The Twin Cellars, Elliston

The “Twin Cellars,” also known as the “Upstairs-Downstairs,” are hillside root cellars built in 1915 by Jim and Dan Goodland. These hillside cellars are constructed of a stacked […]

Traditional Root Cellar Interior Layout

Depiction of the interior vegetable storage space layout of a root cellar.

Pounds full of Potatoes

Ross Traverse of Torbay, Newfoundland, owns Traverse Gardens, where he grows and harvests many of his own vegetables. He has a walk-in cool room located in the basement […]

Walk-in Cool Room

Ross Traverse has a walk-in cool room in his house in Torbay, Newfoundland. Traverse built his walk-in cool room in the basement of his house in the early […]

Walk-in Cool Room

Ross Traverse has a walk-in cool room in his house in Torbay, Newfoundland. Traverse built his walk-in cool room in the basement of his house in the early […]

Barrel Cellars

Barrel Cellars are much smaller than traditional root cellars. It was common to use these small, water tight, and well insulated barrel cellars to store cabbage through the […]

Stage Seven: Jugglers Cove Restoration

The final stage of this restoration was tidying up the external appearance of the cellar. This included painting the exterior of the shed and the shed door bright […]