Inuit Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=inuit Stories of Early Labrador Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:00:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://themdays.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/cropped-Them-Days-Logo-32x32.jpg Inuit Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=inuit 32 32 Vol. 49, No. 2 https://themdays.com/product/vol-49-no-2/ Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:35:37 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=63495 A tribute to the Mud Lake School, which closed after operating for 100 years, stories about Davis Inlet, Goose Bay in the 1960s, traditional skills, and more!

 

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Renovations 
Lydia Campbell Celebration 
Mud Lake School – Mary Ann Penashue, Arlene Rich, Jennifer Best, Kathleen Borlase, Margaret Saunders, Beverly Thomson 
I Don’t Know How We Lived One Time – Bella Leo
Excerpt from The Challenge of the Labrador – Elizabeth Patey
Things I Did in Davis Inlet to Help… – George Gregoire
The Wolf – Nigel Markham
Labrador Gallery: Merrill Strachan collection 
Who What Where When Why? 
Goose Bay in the 1960s, Part I – Bruce Bourque
How Dr Grenfell Took Uncle John Newell – Sarah Baikie
Tribute to Elizabeth Penashue – John Neville
Climate Change – Max Blake
Naskaupi River Thoughts (Dec 22) – Dave Paddon
Dr. Anthony Paddon – Richard Learning
Reviving Traditional Skills – Ross Flowers
Then and Now

Front cover: Bella Leo. Nain, 1970s. Merrill Strachan collection
Back cover: Ski-doo race. Nain, 1970s. Merrill Strachan collection

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]]> Vol. 49, No. 1 – Labrador in the 1970s https://themdays.com/product/vol-49-no-1-labrador-in-the-1970s/ Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:21:15 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=63387 The biggest issue ever produced by Them Days (256 pages--a year's worth of stories in one issue!), Labrador in the 1970s is dedicated to the decade that saw great change in Labrador, and the birth of many movements that still impact us today--like Them Days magazine itself!

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Them Days: A People’s History – Dave Lough
Changes Abound: Setting the Scene – Dave Lough
Labrador Awakening – Bill Flowers
Coming to Labrador with the CYC – Dave Lough
Company of Young Canadians – Joe Goudie
Changing and Building – Pat March
The Birthing of Them Days – Bruce Bourque
The 1970s, As I Saw Them – Fran Williams
The Beginnings of the LCPA – Pete Barrett
Baby Love – Pete Barrett
Labrador Trailblazers – Ellen McDonald
Old and New Labradorians in Labrador West – Ernest Davis
Mike Martin By-Election Speech – Mike Martin
The Combined Councils of Northern Labrador – Nigel Markham
Pretty Exciting Things Were Happening – Gary Mitchell
Political Science 101 – Arthur Fowler
Labradorians Speak Up: The Royal Commission – Doug Letto
An Awakening – Patty Way
You Had to Fight for Every Issue – Ernie McLean
The Status of Women in Labrador – Anne Budgell
How the 1970s Shaped my Life Path – Sam Saunders
Voices from Sheshatshiu, 1975 – Nigel Markham
My Involvement in Politics – Joe Goudie
If Anyone Benefits, We Will Benefit – Mary Sillett
The Last Real Bush Flying – Brent Chaulk
Remembering the ’70s – George Gregoire
It was a Dark Period – Manishan Edmonds
A Time of Transition – Prote Poker
Labrador Women’s Conference – Elizabeth Dawson
Most Significant Happenings in your Labrador Community
The Making of ‘The Last Run’ Documentary – Bruce Bourque
From the Making of The Last Run – Horace Goudie et al.
Gull Island Work Site – Nigel Markham
LIA Angajorkanganit/President’s Report
Reflections of a United Church Minister – Bruce Gregersen
A Historic Week for the Inuit of Labrador – Phil Smith
Breaking Ground in the Labour Movement – Randy Collins
Cooking up Something to Offer – Stelman Flynn
Keep it Local – Claude Rumbolt
Playing for the Dancing Tradition – Shirley Montague
Rigolet in the 1970s – Jack and Jane Shiwak
Labrador Folk Arts Council and Early Festivals – Ellen McDonald
Jesus Christ Superstar – Patty Way
Creating a Festival – Tim Borlase
The Legacy of Pat Cabot – Brenda Linstead
Moving Women and Children Forward – Agnes Pike
Hopedale’s Pre-K – Patty Way
First Graduating Class of Makkovik – Elizabeth Evans-Mitchell
Printing the ’70s: The Labradorian – Louise Kelland
Heading to the Woods – Violet and Simon Strugnell
Changes Started in the 1970s – Judy Pardy
Further Readings on the 1970s in Them Days –Adam Hill
Strong Women – Merrill Strachan
Radio is a Lifeline – Lorne Burry
Reflecting on a Period of Change – Ruby Durno, Linda Mugford
The Beginning of Labrador Legal Services – Veryan Haysom
Innu Land Claims Office, 1978 – Nigel Markham
Four Generations at IOC – Rick Casmey and Sidney Casmey
Gathering Together at the Mariposa Folk Festival – Nellie Thomas
Directions for Labrador – Nigel Markham
Them Days – Doris Saunders

Front cover: Joe Goudie and his mother, Elizabeth Goudie. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, 1980. Nigel Markham photo
Back cover: Alex Andrew, Bart Jack, Brenda Sakuye. Innu Land Claims Office, 1975. Nigel Markham photo

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]]> Vol. 48, No. 4 – Arts https://themdays.com/product/vol-48-no-4-arts/ Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:04:37 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=63257 Labradorians are a crafty bunch! Learn about all the creative ways in which artists and craftspeople all over the Big Land express themselves in this issue dedicated to the arts in Labrador.

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Tribute to Judy McGrath – Aimee Chaulk
Threads of Tradition: The Art and Legacy of Rug Hooking in Labrador – Ellen McDonald
Painting in Labrador – Stephen Hamilton
A Keen Interest in Arts and Crafts – Clarice Blake Rudkowski
Learning from Nan –Veronica Flowers
It’s Just Part of Me –April Williams
Working at the MUN Art Gallery – Virginia (Crane, Moriarty) Davis
Great Things – Billy Gauthier
Art Godin – Patty Way
Art – Patty Way
A Wild Crafter –Bryn Wood
Working with Tradition – Heather Angnatok
Labrador Gallery
We Would Hear Scissors at Night – Sandra Rideout
I Need to Write – Megan Dicker Nochasak
Significant Labrador Art – Greg Mitchell
Creating the Image of Days Gone By – Mary Ann Penashue
Pete’s Place – Pete Barrett
My Brother Arthur – Kirk Lethbridge
The Elders are Like Directors to Me – Christine Poker
They’re Good for Looking At – John Winters
Chesley Flowers’ Caribou – Greg Flowers
Pushing Boundaries and Experimenting – Jason Sikoak
Phoebe Rich, Salome Tuttauk, Louisa Lucy –Dinah Andersen
Doreen FitzGibbon – Heather Campbell
Start Small, But Start – Adele Payne-Buckle
Herb Lilek – Heidi Atter
Further Reading

Front cover: Phoebe Rich sewing grass. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, 1979. Judy McGrath photo
Back cover: Art Godin. Courtesy of Marilyn Pardy McLean

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]]> Vol. 48, No. 1 https://themdays.com/product/vol-48-no-1/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 12:43:28 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=62530 Volume 48, No. 1 celebrates the life of storied interpreter/translator Bertha Holeiter and the first Labrador-born occupational therapist, Annie Baikie Watts. We dive into the life of a young HBC clerk, John Payne, and listen to stories from educators Bob Simms and Carolyn Rompkey.

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Annie Baikie Watts –Joanne Porter
Memoirs of a Fur Trader – John Payne
Time on the Water – Bob Simms
IGA Education Funding for Labradorians – Dave Paddon
Hockey Night in Labrador – Carolyn Rompkey
Labrador Gallery: Sandy LeFort
Who What Where When Why?
Eulogy for Bertha – Joan Dicker
The Shaman’s Travels – Bertha Holeiter
The Country is a Peaceful Place – Hank Penashue
George Davis of L’Anse Amour, Part II – William A. Fowler
Letters to Joey, 1949 – William A. Fowler
Our Flag – Winston White
Then and Now

Front cover: Bertha Holeiter. Happy Valley, 1980. Judy McGrath photo
Back cover: Cape Makkovik, 1980. Courtesy of Sandy LeFort

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]]> Vol. 47, No. 4 https://themdays.com/product/vol-47-no-4/ Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:18:32 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=62357 Volume 47, Number 4 is a general issue of Them Days that sheds light on the history of the Davis family of L'Anse Amour, the American radar site at Saglek, as well as stories from Davis Inlet, Rigolet, and Happy Valley. Hear the story of two young men who left Labrador to pursue a high school education in 1959.

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Raise the Roof Fundraiser – Aimee Chaulk
Tough Girls – Sam Pijogge
Accommodations for Travellers in Rigolet – Max Blake
Promising Young Lads – Hector Blake
Saturday Hunt – John C. Blake
Avanimiut – Lena Onalik, Andrea Procter, Carol Brice Bennett
Davis Inlet Memories
Halcrow’s History – Jo Lewthwaite
I Wouldn’t Give Up on Him – Simeon Tshakapesh
Labrador Gallery: Bridget Murphy fonds
Who What Where When Why?
Kay’s Eulogy – Patty Way
Memories and Nightmares of Saglek – Emma Gilheany
Sealing Song
George Davis of L’Anse Amour – William Fowler
The Loss of H.M.S. Lily
A Trip on the Kyle, 1946 – Ruby McLean Budgell
Then and Now

Front cover: John C. Blake, c.1958. Courtesy of Clarice Blake Rudkowski
Back cover: Kay Edmunds (later Russell). Happy Valley, 1959. Courtesy of Keith Russell

 

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]]> Vol. 47, No. 2 – Borning Babies https://themdays.com/product/vol-47-no-2-borning-babies/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:10:24 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=62087 Read and learn about the history of Midwives and their hard work in Labrador in this 192-page special issue. Features stories of traditional granny midwives, Grenfell nurse-midwives, and changes to birth practices over the course of the twentieth century.

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Midwife Profiles – Laquita Normore & Aimee Chaulk
The Helpers –Laquita Normore
Millie’s Journey – Millicent (Blake) Loder
Honora “Aunt Hannah” Lowe Beals, –William A. Fowler
Violet M. (Learning) Matthews – William A. Fowler
Grenfell Nurses – Laquita Normore
“We are now eligible to be called Granny”:Midwives Among the Deep Sea Fishers – William A. Fowler
Joan Stedman
Meeting the Locals – Sheila Paddon
Nursing at the Valley Clinic – Susan Felsberg
W.A. Present I.G.A. Happy Valley Hospital with Isolette
Midwifery on the Coast in the 1970s – Sheila Wilson
Honouring the Connection
Where Do Babies Come From?
Something Terrible Strange – Leonard Budgell
We Always Had Some Old Woman – Flora Baikie
Midwife in a Punt – Cal Poole
Birth Stories/How birth was (excerpts)
George Cartwright’s Journal
Hulda – Hans-Windelkilde Jannasch
Klementine – Walter Perrett
Moravian Periodical Accounts
The Nain Nursing Station
Sidney Dicker – Bella Lyall
My Mom, Lucy Rich – Marie Angela Pijogge
It’s a Miracle – Gordie Rendell
Midwives and Delivering Babies in the Country – Naissa Penashue
And Twenty-Odd Great-Grandchildren – Mary Dumaresque
Some Little Difficulties – Mabel Manak
Triplets in Rigolet, 1952 – Patty Way
A Special Easter Bunny Delivery in Goose Bay – Gordon Steeves
Babies in Voisey’s Bay
The Birth of My Brother – George Rich
An Excerpt from An Inuk Boy Becomes A Hunter – John Igloliorte
They Knew So Much – Nellie Winters
Aunt Lou Cabot – Stella Fowler
Midwifery in Makkovik – Annie Evans
Eldred – Michael Normore, Sr.
Frank’s Birth – Maggie Saunders
Working Together – Agnes Blake
The People Had Confidence in Aunt Susie – John Winters
Lucky Number Fifty – Geoff Lyall
A Dogteam Mercy Mission – Max Jacque
My Birth – Bertha Holeiter
Twins at Independent
Aunt Violet Pardy – Vera Butt
Because I Was Handy – May Pardy
I Was Born Up the Bay – Ethel Hunter
I Was There When Ethel Was Born – Sam Pijogge
They Had a Big Responsibility – Wanda (Winters) Lucy
Caesarian Sections – W.A. Paddon
They Weren’t Afraid – Tshaukuesh Elizabeth Penashue
Excerpts from Labrador Memories – Margaret Baikie
Tight Quarters – Carol Smith
Hope – Donna Andrew
Women Are Really Strong – Nachelle Poker
The Big Snowstorm – Josie Benuen
Excerpts from Reflections from a Snowhouse – F.W. Peacock
Everybody Is Not Prepared To Do It – Alex Poole
Some Cravin’! – Alex Poole
Excerpt from Labrador Doctor – W.A. Paddon
Leaving the Coast
Christmas Angel – Ruth Jacque
1990 Northern Childbirth Workshop
The Birth of the Innu Midwifery Program – Thea Penashue
All in a Name
Midwives in Training

Front cover: Clara Palliser. Rigolet, 1952. Courtesy of Patty Way
Back cover: Susie Andersen with Rev. Gerhard Vollprecht and his wife Inge, and baby Inge, Makkovik. Courtesy of the White Elephant Museum

 

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]]> Vol. 46, No. 4 https://themdays.com/product/vol-46-no-4/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:28:50 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=61062 A 64-page issue containing themes of old news and stories - ranging from newspaper excerpts from the 1700's in England to modern newspaper based in Labrador. See how news was written about Labradorians compared to news written by Labradorians. Many more fascinating stories included!

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European Interactions with the Inuit in the 1700s
Eighteenth Century Inuit in England 
Foreign Squabbles
Hamilton v. Thompson
Proposed Penal Settlement
A Catholic Missionary Among the Indians of Labrador
Boiled Belugas in Manhattan – Emma Gilheany
Exaggerated Tragedies
A Great Labrador Waterfall 
Labrador Jottings from Dr. Cluny Macpherson’s Letters
One of the Richest Iron-Producing Districts in the World
Eclipse of the Sun
Book Review: The Son of the Otter
News from the Dickie Lumber Company 
Arctic Tragedy
Labrador Love Tragedy
Terrors of Another Klondike
The Cartwriter 
Happy Valley Pioneer 
The Cartwright Courier
The Labrador South Review
kinatuinamot Illengajuk
The Black Tickle and Domino Informer
Genealogy in the Newspapers 
Other Labrador Newspapers

Front cover: Bishop Martin & Rev. W. W. Perrett at work on Nain newspaper, Aglait
Illunainortut. Nain, 1912. Rev. S. Hettasch collection
Back cover: Bishop Martin & Rev. W. W. Perrett at work on Nain newspaper, Aglait
Illunainortut. Nain, c.1906. Rev. S. Hettasch collection

 

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]]> Vol. 46, No. 1 https://themdays.com/product/vol-46-no-1/ Wed, 04 May 2022 16:28:31 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=60828 An epistolary issue of Them Days! Our very first issue dedicated specifically to letters--but probably not our last! Read letters dating back to the 1700s all the way up to a few decades ago. Topics include Inuit-European relations, loneliness, human exhibitions, moving, the Spanish flu pandemic, and family news.

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“The sloop began to fire small arms”
1761 Incident
“A Disgrace to Human Nature”
“I find it awfully lonely down here”
Letters from Sheshatshiu
“We will see a lot of changes”
“Stella, come up.” 
“I always think of you”
“Omomat aglakatagapkit”
“These are coming from my heart.”
“By the reliable dog team service”
Labrador Gallery: Cards, Postcards, etc
“A lively and very bright little girl”
“My aim was to become a teacher”
Letters from Labrador Inuit
“We are sick and tired”
Among the Children
Susanna Anton and her Letter from London
North Wind: Letter Bag
Joseph Goudie’s Postcard
“I have always been a Liberal”
“We can drive everywhere in automobiles”
“I’m homesick.”
“Plenty Trout”
“Victor thinks so much of you all”
“Never send him to the Labrador again”
“This is a very lonesome winter for me”
Love Looking at Letters?

Front cover: Jessie (Evans) Flowers addressing a parcel to George Sheppard of Postville. Hopedale, c. early 1980s. Labrador School Board collection
Back cover: Picking up the mail at the plane in Postville. Joan and Ross King collection

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]]> Vol. 45, No. 3 https://themdays.com/product/vol-45-no-3/ Tue, 05 Oct 2021 12:34:18 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=60362 A classic issue of Them Days with a general theme. Stories of trapping, the beginnings of Happy Valley, Labrador West, Innu tea dolls, Mitsuk genealogy, and more. Features poetry from Mike Chaulk about working on the Northern Ranger and exploring themes of belonging and identity. Also read what Methodist missionary Thomas Hickson thought of the locals when he visited Labrador in 1824!

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]]> A classic issue of Them Days with a general theme. To know what your ancestor’s done like  telling stories about how they lived and what has been done during  then. Stories of trapping, the beginnings of Happy Valley, Labrador West, Innu tea dolls, Mitsuk genealogy, and more. (Along the coast of Labrador). Features poetry from Mike Chaulk about working on the Northern Ranger and exploring themes of belonging and identity. Also read what Methodist missionary Thomas Hickson thought of the locals when he visited Labrador in 1824! Carol Smith meeting new people in school, her dad being a teacher, then off to go and meet a new friend Carol met. Jeannie Kitura was asked about to tell her mom’s tea doll’s she made in Sheshatshui but passed away of February 5th,2019, Jeannie’s mom did. Missionary church was founded in 1771 by Reverend Dr. and Mrs. C Brasen, Reverend and Mrs. J. Haven, Reverend and Mrs. Schneider,  and Reverend L. Drachardt.

 

These Days at Them Days – Aimee Chaulk
Thank God for the Old Timers – Leon Mesher
From Davis Inlet to Happy Valley – Don Saunders
Time for a little Night Lunch – Mike Chaulk
My Pop, the Captain – Darrelle Bennett
Carol Smith of Carol Lake – Carol Smith
Family Heirlooms
A Conversation with Jeannie Nuna – Robin Goodfellow-Baikie
Kajak Shape: How come? – Noah Nochasak
Labrador Gallery: John Tucker Metcalf fonds
Who What Where When Why? 
The Mitsuk Family of Nunatsiavut/Labrador in the Moravian Records – Hans J. Rollmann
Thomas Hickson’s Visit to Labrador, 1824 – Burton Janes
Nain’s Sestercentennial
Then and Now

Front cover: Don Saunders. Goose Bay, 1940s. Una Saunders collection
Back cover: Brass band playing at opening of Nain 250th anniversary celebrations, August 13, 2021. Courtesy of Joan Dicker

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]]> Vol. 15, No. 3 – Digital Only https://themdays.com/product/vol-15-no-3-digital-only/ Sun, 15 Apr 1990 04:00:21 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=61337 More stories from the past, another issue of Them Days tells of the Land and Water Rights Dispute in early Rigolet. Entries of stories that were passed down by elder relatives. Learn about how some younger generations lived in early 1900's Hopedale in The Way We Lived. This 15th anniversary Them Days volume read about Inuit legends of The Blind Boy and the Loon or How the Polar Bear was turned to Stone. Finally finish with how the trapping methods compare today (1990) to how it was Them Days.

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Cover photo – Alice Palliser D.J. Saunders photo

Land and Water Rights Dispute, Rigolet –

Stories Uncle William Told Me – James Saunders Sr.

The Way We Lived – Hilda Dicker

Alice (Perrett) Perrault

Reuben Pye – Shirley Pye Reid

Bangbelly – A mixture of good things – John Terriak

Trapping Methods Compared – Ralph Barrett

Trappin’ and Huntin’ – Mike Normore Sr.

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