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Grein (Lear) Hussey's Ollr Life on Lears Room. LlIbrador. 2 l3ecause Hussey's father had
a lillie store. she had higher status than most of Ihe people I have interviewed. icholas
Smith's Fifty Two }'ears al the Labrado,J provides information about the fishery at Cut
Throat Island. where many ofmy informants fished. from the point of\'iew ofa
successful captain. His autobiography does not provide as much detail on the work
routine as does Hussey's book.. and it occasionally summarizes scveral years in one
sentence. Frank Saunders. in Sailing Shipsfrom Carbom!OT,4 gi\'es more detail on work
than Smith and provides the perspective ofa principal town imolved in the Labrador
Fishery. Hilda Murray's More Than 5004 is an excellent study ofthe role ofwomen as
"",ork horse" in the traditional fishery in a Newfoundland outport. J Shannon Ryan. in
Fish 0111 ofWaler 6 examines the production and marketing aspects ofthe Labrador fishery
between 1814 and 1914. The Labrador fishery is also mentioned in the accounlS of
missionaries and olher travelers to the land. Rev. P. W. Browne's Where fhe Fishers Go:
The Sfory ofLlIbrlldor 'is Ihe best of these exoteric accounts as it gives eye-willless
2 Greta Hussey, Our Life 011 Lear's Room, Ltlbrador (St. John's: Robinson-Blackmore,
1981).
J Nicholas Smilh, Fifty Two }'ears af Ihe Labrador (London: Arthur I-I. Stockwell, 1936).
4 Frank Saunders, Sailing Vessels and Crews ofCarbonear: Slories oflhe Sea (St. John's:
Robinson-l3lackmore, 1981).
, Iliida Chaulk Murray. More Than 500A>: Woman's Life ;n a Newfowullanc/ Olltporf,
/900-1950 (51. John's: Breakwater, 1979). See especially, chapter 2. "Making a Living:
The Woman was more than 5()G/o.··
li hannon Ryan. Fish 0111 o/Water: The Newfoundland Sailfish Trade, 181.J-191.J,
Newfoundland History Series, no. 2 (SI. John's: Breakwater. 1986).
1 P. W. Bro\\l1e. Where Ihe Fishers Go: The Story OfLabrodor (New York: Cochrane:
lIaJifa.x, S: Te_ Allen; London: T. Wener Laurie. 1909).