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such as the passagc down and the actual fishing scason itself. The cmic importance ofthe cvenls Ihemselves is reinforced by the seasonal relurn 10 the samc setting to fish yearly. "me reminiscences build up a picture of life in Colliers and life on thc Labrador. The stories ofthe Labrador are lold in small.scttings usually among family members and visiting members ofthe group. IntCfV;ewing Ihe people was similar 10 a family galhering \\ here most ofthe informants remembered some points but others could add little bits long forgoncn or not known by another pany. "1emorics arc often rek.indled by the deaths oflhc panicipants and by the continual panicipation ofsomc families. the Coles and the Whelans. in the fishery. An example may be seen in the following narrative. It illustrates how the La radar had a major innuence on some families in Colliers. My grandmother had been conceivcd out of wedlock on the Labrador in a relationship with a married man. Only two ofhcr five daughlcrs (my mother. C.O. and aunt, N.S.) knew aboul it and they had heard the story from othcr people. In my aunt's case, it was told to hcr by her brother-in-law, a l3elllsland man who had heard it from a man living in the Ridge .. rca orColliers. C,D.: Mom was born in 1873. The next year her mother wenlto the Labrador und she never came back. Got married in the year (to somcone from) Brent's Cove. He was down on the Labrador. They came up afier.l-lerselfand her daughter and poor Mom went down the harbour (to visit with them) Maude was hcr rmme, her sister. She didn't want nonc ofthe family to know. Pcople told me. She was married then. N.S.: Do you think I should telljmy daughtcr! Bride? Angela didn't know or Clara (Nell's sisters). C.O.: Gen Oinn told me. 166
.S.: Clara (Griffin] asked Kitty McCarthy but she \\ouldn't tell her. Mike Whelan in around the road told (my brother-in-lawJ Tom Stoyles about Mom land he taunted me with the infonnationl. 21l The true nature ofmy grandmother's conception would havc been known to the Collicrs people fishing on the Labrador in 1872, but the infonnation was not generally known in Colliers, even among her closest relali\cs. At least one Colliers woman is nckno\\ledgcd as having had a baby delivered on the Labrador. Because ofthe young starting age ofthe participants in the fishery. many ofthe narratives center on pranks and interaction \\;th the opposite sex. Their narratives identif) the principal families who participated in the Labrador fishery and those that went with them. The important characteristics ofa Labrador "fishemlan" and "girl" come out in the stories. Men must be strong, agile, dependable. good at fishing. and good sports. Women must be good cooks. capable to help at fishing when neccssary. and good sports. The process of remembering Colliers' particip3tiol1 in thc Labrador fishery is best dcscribed by Tamara I-Iareven's tenn "generational memory": By comparison to other cultures, for most Amcricans gCl1CTUlional mcmory spans n relativcly brief period. Thc term gcncmtionalmcmory is cmploycd here broadly to encompass the mcmories which individuals have oflheir own families' history, as wcll as more general collective mcmories about the past. Most people do not cvcn remember, or never knew, their grandfathers' occupation or placc of birth. For a small proportion of the American population mcmory reaches baek 10 the Amcrican Revolution. or to pre-Mayflower England or Europe. For descendants of later immigrations, memory extends mostly to lhe lirst generation in America, or, in fewer instances, to the last generalion in the "old country." A sense of history docs not depend on the depth of 211 f\.tU FLA 86-013, C8683. This is also an example of prohibitive zones in families. Sec Itarc"an. p. 255. "Poor" is used to denote people \\ho arc dead. 167
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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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Tom Doyle was born in Colliers in 1
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Genernlly take 8-10 days. On her on
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One lime. I remember. we were trave
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Sex on the Passage Somctimes when I
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ller name it is Miss Katie Flynn. s
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y bal1cning down the hatches for lo
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Summary thcn they would get the goi
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CllAI'TEIl4 o TilE LABRADOR Oflhc t
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might have expedited the harvesting
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Bonavista, Trinity Bay. then drop o
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and most names ofthe crew she had w
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C,D,: Had 10 be married before that
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at Salmon Bay and Bonne Bay until s
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Page 142 and 143: songs. or tell a few stories. Such
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Page 158 and 159: Jack Conway recalls dances he alten
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Page 162: J.D. Always playing tricks. C.M. Di
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Page 180 and 181: generational memory, but identity a
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Page 185 and 186: community cconomy. Migration has be
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Page 201 and 202: Jill's Questionnaire for the Coasta
Page 203 and 204: Questionnaire API'ENllIX II 1. When
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