Vol. 43, No. 4

Primary research undertaken by Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Language, Culture, and Tourism has begun detailed interviews with elders born in 1920s, 1930s and 1940s in Hebron, Nachvak, and Killinek, a time and place when sealskin Kajait were used… – Noah Nochasak. “Kajait and Ice: It Happend” Nain 2019.

“For several years the chief clerk in the General Post Office St.John’s Newfoundland had been trying to get someone to take the mail across the Straits of Belle Isle in winter. In summer of 1909 he wrote to me. The pay was small and I did not trouble about it & would have forgot about it only everyone said it could not be don. – “Mailman Ernest Doane Crosses the Straits” St.John’s and Labrador, 2019.

“Their story of strong Inuit woman and the resilience of youth through hardship. Forty-one of the Fifty-nine survivors were under eighteen. The rest were eighteen females, some unmarried, some widows and three of whom were considered elders. -Patricia Way.