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songs. or tell a few stories. Such was the life Jim was used to and he did not want to be left out ofit in the summer time. He pestered his father for three )cars to take him on the Labrador. In 1925. at the age ofelevcn. he took his first trip on a schooner hired by J.W. Iliscock from Brigus and skippered by Stephen John Kennedy. They left Conception I'arbour with about fifty to sixty people aboard from Colliers and Conception Harbour. Jim was sea sick before they sailed out ofthe harbour. They spent that summer at Splilting Knifc. Sometimes a man or two would go ahead to mark the berths. but usually the crews traveled together and took whatever berths were left. According to Jim. thcre was no competition as every one hundred fathoms was a berth. The schooners did not comc until later and could not fish in too close to the land. Although thc landsmen got the choice berths. the schooncrs get more fish. But even though twcnty·two schooners fished there one summer, everyone get a load of fish. No one stole a berth to Jim's knowledge. No one stayed at the fishing premises over the winter. Somctimes the natives (Iivyers) would stay in the cabins while trapping, blltthey left everything as they saw it and wOllld sometimes visit the I1shermen during the summer; lishcrmen in other locutions were not so lucky with their neighbours. At Splitting Knife, there were no Inuit. and therefore no huskies around these islands to pose a threat to children. lillie contact was had with foreign snilors. even though they sometimes loaded their fish on the foreign vessels for Iliscock. The sailors helped with the loading, but there was no socializing. No one ever look seriously ill. Jim mentioned that a doctor camc on the mail boat every two weeks. lbcrc was a hospital at nearby Indian Ilarbour. 130
Jim certainly cnjoyed his summers on the Labmdor despitc ycarly stonns and potcntiallack of fish or good prices. "More went in the hole than came out on lOP:' he said. but he. himself. lost money only once and Ihat was the last year he wenL Fishing \"here they did seemed to keep them isolated from conflicts other fishermen experienced. lie heard no mention ofthe cases Warnell handled. But then, as he said, "Labrador is a big place:' Besides the "scattered" fight. there were some accounts ofconflicts \\;th nature. One August. hailstones as big as camphor balls fell. frightening the girls. Pieces of ice fell in Indian Ilarbour and broke out the \\;ndows in the hospital. Jim said he was caught out in storms a few times but always managed to get 10 land. lie was also caught in storms on Ihe passage. When asked what was his \\orst summer, he said it was the year he took nineteen days to get home on the K)'le. 202 Coopcrulion Ncwfoundland stories record the Labrndor people awaiting their arrival in the spring, coming Ollt in their boats to the schooner or stcamcr to mcet thcm and to carry them to their hOllses. Friendships developed bascd on sharcd respect for fishing ability and on comlllon interests in singing, dancing, yarning, and in cruising (visiting). In 1894. Lydia Campbell, the daughter ofan Englishman (lnd (Ill Inuit woman wrote: 202 See Chapter fi\c for further details. 131
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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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so doing things like washing clothe
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crew member was apprehensive aooUi
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well. and in the Old Age Home in Ii
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I made sure that people did not tak
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experiences about which few partici
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"going in collar," which marks the
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Some of the reasons why people were
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transcribed songs and a better reco
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(3.1) When the water came in the ho
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Page 158 and 159: Jack Conway recalls dances he alten
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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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