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so doing things like washing clothes was labour intensive. One had to carry and heat the water. It was the same v.;th washing hair. One could do il on onc's own. but it was easier as a two-person operation. We spent most ofthai nighljust gclting washed up. Marie. Rochelle and I went to the post office to make arrangements to ny in to Ilappy Valley-Goose Bay the next moming. Sometimes. Labrador Airway picked up the passengers early in the morning and took them to v.hcre\er lhe plane was going up the coast before going to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The pilots decided not to pick us up on the way because the) had too many passengers; because there \\ere no bathroom facilities on board. I was quite happy to be on the shorter trip. Thc following day's trip by small plane from Rigolet to Ilappy Valley-Goose Bay was spectacular. We new over Hamilton Inlet where the coastal boat had taken me the previous weck. It was also a bil scary. I could look into the cockpit and sec cvcry movc the pilots made. It somctimes seemed as if thc engines had failed. Thc cargo, 10 my mind. was not stl1lppcd down very well, and the cabin was Full of nics. When I gOI out of the plane, [ looked as iFsol1lebody had cui my throal; the nies had comc across Illy neck in one straight line and it was full ofbtood. By then,l was lIscd to Ihe nics and had not paid attcntion to the bites, but Marie got quite a Fright and screnmed when she first saw my throat. We arrived in !lappy Valley-Goose Bay and were met by Marie's Friends. The Skoglunds. at whose house I was to stay, weren't around. so the fomlcr took me to their house until I could make arrangements to go to the Skoglunds' house. The man who was supposed to Slay there \\;lh me decided to leave Labrador so I ended up having the house 54
10 mysclffor a week. This was a Saturday night. and I decidcd 10 take Sunday ofTlo go to churth. do my laundry. call home. and generally relax. It lurned out thai I had to take more than Sunday ofT. as I had a case ofwhat is called locally "coaslal stomach" (diarrhoea) While recuperating. I visited the office of Them Days, Siories ofEarly Lobroclor. a quanerly magazine which deals \\ith the ami history of Labradorians. Although they had an archive. it wasn't open to the public at the time. Doris Saunders. the editor. said that much ofwhat was in the archi\e was published in the magazine. so I bought a complete set of Them Days. While still confined to the house. J read and indexed the magazines for references to ewfoundlanders. fishing. and interchanges between thc ewfoundlandcrs and Labradorians. I also visited the Labrador Institute for Northern Studies. where I received a copy ofBounlY ofthe Borrell CooSI. and spent some lime socializing with a friend from Ihe B01111l'islll. To round out my visit to modem Labrndor, I visitcd thc Royal Air Force club called "The Bulldog." The Trip I-lome The return trip from Happy Valley to Lewisporlc was by the Taverner, but with a different crew. There was a mix·up with my accoillmodalions, and I ended up gClling a nicer cabin thai I was able to keep all the way back, and this time did not share it with anyone. Again. the procedure on this trip was similar to the first Iwo legs of the voyage. I spent most ofmy waking time on deck talking to crew members and fellow passengers. asking where Newfoundlanders had fished. where they were still fishing, and ifthere were conflicts between them. What is significant about this trip is that it was finally 55
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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
Page 15 and 16: Grein (Lear) Hussey's Ollr Life on
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Page 56 and 57: on the coast wherc the Colliers peo
Page 58 and 59: than the To\'erner, but Ihere were
Page 60 and 61: I did as I had done on the first la
Page 62 and 63: Tales ofaccidenlal drowning figure
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Page 72 and 73: well. and in the Old Age Home in Ii
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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
Page 95 and 96: Genernlly take 8-10 days. On her on
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Page 102 and 103: ller name it is Miss Katie Flynn. s
Page 105 and 106: y bal1cning down the hatches for lo
Page 107 and 108: Summary thcn they would get the goi
Page 109: CllAI'TEIl4 o TilE LABRADOR Oflhc t
Page 112: might have expedited the harvesting
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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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