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The march resulted in the death ofa Harbour Main man, the closure ofthe church in Cat's Cove (Conception Harbour) for one year. and strained relationships between people and communities at the head ofthe bay lasting up untilthc prescnt time. Thrortlical Approaches The annuallrip from e\\foundland to the Labrador embodies many elements that contemporary geographers would regard as I)'pieal ofmigration, a process thcy define broadly as a permanent or semi-permanent change ofresidence that can be voluntary or involunlar)', over a soon distance or a long distance." Migration theory was summarized by Ravcnstcin in 1885 and reaffirmed in 1889. Few additional generalizations have been advanced since. Ravenstcin found that gcncrally people proceed only a shon distance when migrating. and that the move is done in stages. in streams (and consequently countcrstreams). mostly by rural people in response to technological or economic demands. Ravcnslcin also noted the significa", role playcd by womcn in shon distance moves. JI Essentially, economy and tcchnology arc the dominant factors in migration, which thcn follows certain pallcrns for the distancc and lbc type of people moving. From the economic perspective, theorists hold that a basic rcquircmellt for any industry, be it agriculture, mining, fishing, or factory is to havc a rescrvc anny of skilled workers. This anny has to be recruited, transponed, worked, paid, and retumed or disperscd when the )7 Everett S. Lee. ··A Theory ofMigration:' Popllialion Geography: A Reader (Ncw York: McGraw-Hili, 1970),p .29. JI For an ovcrview. see Lee. pp. 288·89. 26
job is done. Seldom in the history oflabour has the army been given preferential treatment. J9 Good examples ofstudies focusing on the treatment of migrant workers are two works by Carey McWilliams. Faelories in Ihe Field: Tlte SlOry 0/Migralory Farm Lobor in Calijornia¥1 and its companion study, III Fares lite Lond: Migroms and Migratory Lobor in Calijornia: u McWilliams, a historian and activist for Mexican- American rights. traces the history ofCalifomia's first industry -agriculture - and ilS workers from 1870 to 1939. She states: ··It is in many respxts a melodramatic history of theft. fraud. violence and exploitation.--:! According to McWilliams. there are two requisites for scasonallabourcrs: first they must have the ability to mO\'e about quickly \\;thout incurring much transportation expense. and second, the)' must have the ability to hibernate. that is, to disappear when the crops are harvested untillheir scrvices arc again required.") Thesc characteristics demonstrate why healthy, young, unattached males are the ··aristocrats··... ofagribusiness. White labourers with families were liabilities. because they could nOllllOVC about as J9 Exceptions arc professional and white collar workers. Ilowcvcr, the migration of the elite is morc ora circulation than a migration. Sec F. Musgrove, 111t! MigrarOlY Elite (London: Ilcinemnnn Educational Books, 1963). The recessions of 1982-84 and 1989 to the present with their subsequentlay-offs of surplus management workers, demonstrate tl1atno class of worker is safe from forced migration. 40 Carey McWilliams, Factories in the Field: The Story of Migratory Fann Labor in California (Boston: Brown. Little & Co.. 1939). "I Carey McWilliams. 111 Fares the Land: Migrants and Migratory Labor in California (Boston: Brown, Little & Co., 1942). 4:! McWilliams, III Fares lite Land. p_ 4. 4) McWilliams. Faelories in Ihe Field. p. 107. .... The tenn "aristocrats" comes from Moore. The Slares We Relit (New York: Random Ilouse, I965).p. 42_ See also McWilliams. Faelories in the Field. p. 131. 27
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Page 7 and 8: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS During my studies
Page 9 and 10: TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACT . ACK OW
Page 11 and 12: CHAPTER 5 . Harbour Days . __ . Son
Page 13 and 14: CHAl'TEIII INTRODUCTION The purpose
Page 15 and 16: Grein (Lear) Hussey's Ollr Life on
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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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The gun bag, which was sold for one
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was unfairly chastised by Dr. Paddo
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the dcadly.177 This section summari
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It is unclear if the girl was impre
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epertoire but mostly he and other L
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So Uncle Nick went up the next day.
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songs. or tell a few stories. Such
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II was and is a Labrador custom to
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When I told this story to the peopl
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eturned to ask that the deck boards
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CHAPTERS E DI G TilE SEASON: HARBO
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common folks around would make up a
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Jack Conway recalls dances he alten
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gulching when the dogs were after m
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J.D. Always playing tricks. C.M. Di
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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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