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hooked rugs for the Grenfell mission, picked berries. made clothes and snowshoes, look care ofthe sick and dealt with great personallragedies. Collien women on the Labrador. like Ihese down in the Straits and elsewhere in e\\foundland, played important roles in the fishing stations. ot only were they responsible for cooking and household chores. but they also took an active role in processing lhc fish from a young age. as is recalled by two of my informants. Kiny (phillips) McCarthy. a petite woman. who was born in 1897 and first went to the Labrador in 1912. described the routine ofher first year on lhc Labrador as follows: I was fifteen and they came for me to go to the Labrador and Aunt Fannie she said "You can go. You can take her." (I had) three bosses and still I could have neither onc. I had a lovely time. I loved the Labrador. (The) passage going down and coming home was wonderful. We had the whole length ofthe big vessel and there they was with all the girls, bunks along the whole length ofher. They was singing and we was all singing. We had a hell ofa time, boy. Got down on the Labrador. down on the rocks. Oh, boy, what a place. It was some good, boy. They put me salting, tending the table. The first year was putting the fish through the puncheons up on the table for the men 10 open up the fish to split. Not spliuin' the fish. We had two spliners. Here, beggar. 1 was all right. There was nothing wrong. I was lovely. Come home. Next year. Went down Ihe next year. They put me saltin' the fish. Now that was a big puncheon orsalt. I used to have to dip the little shovel down into the salt and put it up on the fin of Ihe lish. I had a big ladder to get up on to get up on the bulk ofthe fish. It was the whole length orthe stage. We had 10 put the salt upon the yen (fin) orthc fish. dip down again, and put it up and that's how I salted the fish. I was first ratc that summer. That was all right. l ' Ann Grace was born in Colliers in 1904 and went to Labrador with Barry Trahey at first. and then with Pad Wade for two or three years. She worked out of Splitting Knife and the Run. Cut Throat Island. She had forgonen how old she was when she fint went ," MU FLA 86-013, C8631. 106
and most names ofthe crew she had worked with, but she did remember the work she did. We had to bring bed clothes and our own c1othcs, enough for the summer and wash it before you go back. Ifyou didn't. when you get back [to Newfoundland]. you had to go O\'er to your boss's place and wash it. The skifpcr brought the food. I used to love to be on the stage with them cutting throats. 15 Aliee (Doyle) Kenny first went on the Labrador in 1920 with her father, brother. and uncle. She never liked lite boat trip. -J get sick from the time I'd go until I get back (on land) Despite the seasickness she went for fifteen years between 1930 and 1945. Sunday momin§. Cook pot ofbre\\is. Cook Sunday dinner. Sunday evening, cook linJe rounders u salted in the night time. Fish used to be nice. 1·lad to carry cvcrything: fat back. flour (three to four barrels), not like it is now, hard bread. butter. Jfthey got short, they'd go to Hiscocks (in Smokey) and get it. a cows, no fresh milk, no canned milk then. They'rcjust the same as here now. It would be black tea. Sometimes bring down a bag ofpotatoes when you had them left at homc. There was loIS offish. One time (it was) a dollar fifty for a quintal of fish. Don't know the year. Me father was down there. You'd want to get a lot offish. Now it's a dollar fifty a pound. Not as good as it used to be because ofthe stuff (pollution) in the water. Used to be lots ofsalmon too... That's the place the bakeapples used to be at Splitting Knife on the hill. Little crock now eight dollars. Most everyday I had to make bread. You kncw the kind ofyeast that was going then. Get up in the morning and mix it (bread). You'd havc to go make (the yeast),mix it,put it in the bowl before going to bed. T'was slow yeast. Fourto five barrels ofnour, two hundred pound barrels. Jim (your futher) knows all about the barrels. Bake nine to ten loaves 10 eat coming homc on the boat. (The men) cut the wood. I wasn't cutting it. Water was handy. (You'd) see the lads from the schooners coming in to get theirs. Lots ofcompany. I liked it there. NOlllluch difTerenee in the work (from that at home). You'd have to gel (the) washing board, scrubbing board to go washing (the clothes)... No knitting. '" MUNFLA 86-013, C8684. In A small cod fish gutted. headed. salted and dried \vilhout being split. 107
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THE PLACE OFTHE LABRADOR FISHERY IN
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During my studies
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TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . ACK OW
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CHAPTER 5 . Harbour Days . __ . Son
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CHAl'TEIII INTRODUCTION The purpose
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Grein (Lear) Hussey's Ollr Life on
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FOLLOWING PAGE Figure 1. Map showin
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FOLLOWI G PAGE Figure 3. Fishing Ar
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History of the Labrador fishc'1,IO
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March 30. 1833, at the age ofsixty-
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with a "God save you kindly". 'ow t
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tmditional parish of Harbour Main w
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job is done. Seldom in the history
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workers, union organizers. or vario
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Van Gennep stales that the second s
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is nn important one for folklorists
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Until I became interested in the La
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an adult, had been told that my "fr
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From Happy Valley.) did not have a
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on the coast wherc the Colliers peo
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than the To\'erner, but Ihere were
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I did as I had done on the first la
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Tales ofaccidenlal drowning figure
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Point. their summer salmon fishing
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Page 85: Some of the reasons why people were
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Page 93 and 94: Tom Doyle was born in Colliers in 1
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Page 109: CllAI'TEIl4 o TilE LABRADOR Oflhc t
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Page 158 and 159: Jack Conway recalls dances he alten
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Harbour Oa)'s: Summar)' Entertainme
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'arr:tlivcs or Dealh and the Supern
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otTthe description ofjigging for th
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and whcn I gcts homc - if I get hom
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such as the passagc down and the ac
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generational memory, but identity a
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and my father demonstrated that the
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community cconomy. Migration has be
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much during the period ofmy study a
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IlIULJOGRAI'IIY Bascom, William. "F
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Iliscock. Phillip. "Folklore and Po
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MUNFLA illS 84·220 (Collector: Cla
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Jill's Questionnaire for the Coasta
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Questionnaire API'ENllIX II 1. When
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37. Did you look forward (0 going o
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