Vol. 42, No. 4

“I was born in Rigolet, Labrador on the 9th of June, 1837 or 1847 I am not positive and it was called Prince Ruperts Land at that time. But my Discharge [from the Union army in 1865] gave no date of my birth only born in Canada and my age 28 years. I know of no record of my birth and all of my folks are dead long years ago as i was born in an Indian Country and far from civilization in them days and my folks were in the employ of Hudson’s Bay Co. this is all i know regarding my birth and this is the reason my age is conflicting but i am the identical person who served in the civil war and i have been with Hudson’s Bay Co. most of the time with the company since 1867 till present day…” -Stephen Lafricain. “Donald Smith Takes Over Rigolet.”

“The Broomfield family is the largest in Labrador. No other family would have more descendants spread both north and south. For more than thirty years, It was impossible create linkages to join all the various branches but in gathering notes and discussing details with Bernie Heard Broomfield family members, and especially friends with Broomfield background Kay Russell and Joan Anderson, The facts begun to accumulate…”-Patty Way. “The Broomfield Family.” Happy Valley Goose Bay, 2018.

“You could say Sheila was a product of early-twentieth-century England and the mistaken notions of one Adolf Hitler. Her generation might have been unremarkable if he hadn’t mad dramatic miscalculation about the English character. miscaluate he did, and under the confluence of Churchill, Dunkirk and Spitfires, Sheila Paddon and her lot gritted their teeth and united for the sole purpose of keeping the Nazis off their island…-Dave Paddon. “Mum’s Eulogy. St.Johns.,2018