Makkovik Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=makkovik Stories of Early Labrador Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:49:30 +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 Makkovik Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=makkovik 32 32 Caribou Cakes Cookbook – Digital Only https://themdays.com/product/caribou-cakes-cookbook-digital-only/ Mon, 10 Jul 2023 17:56:03 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=61842 Caribou Cakes returns to our digital collections. This cookbook is filled with Labrador favourites with dishes that include; Caribou, Bear, Rabbit, Fish, Seal, Pea soup and plenty more. Included you can also find traditional sweets and jams, cookies, and even beverages. This cookbook consists of many entries from all over Labrador making these selections diverse of plenty dishes

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Moravian Foodways at Nam in the Early 1770’s.

A Seasonal Diet

Hunting and Trapping

Caribou

Bear

Rabbit

Beaver

Mountain Cat

Porcupine

Squirrel

Birds

Seal

Porpoise and Whale

Preserving and Storing

Eggs

Fish

Shiwa and Sivahk

Seaweed

Shellfish

Homemade Vinegar

Vegetables and Gardening

Mushrooms 

Pea Soup

Baked Beans 

Instant Baby Custard

Breads

Buns and Flummies Cakes

Cookies

Puddings

Candy

Rhubarb

Berries

Jams and Jellies

Beverages

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]]> Vol. 2, No. 3 – Digital Only https://themdays.com/product/vol-2-no-3-digital-only/ Tue, 15 Mar 1977 04:00:14 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=61509 This issue of Them Days have exclusive stories that came from various hunters and trappers, read their stories about their trips to hunt for polar bears in  I Almost Saw One, I Almost Shot Two, and I've Killed Three. Take in the the joyful story of Honorah Hammond, more commonly known by the community of Pinware as, Aunt Hannah. Take in the Labrador craft of building snowshoes with steps to build the frame and filling them in with caribou hide.

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Polar Bears –

Makin’ A Livin’ – Martha McDonald

Profile: Aunt Hannah – Gertrude Hawco

Labrador Shiship –

My Favourite Neighbour – Elizabeth

Trapper’s Memories – Percy Chaulk

Labrador Crafts

Battle Harbour was a Big Place – Levi ‘Joe’ Spearing

Them Days – Sarah Holwell

I Was a Good Header – Tamar Elson

Makkovik Gold Rush – Ron Smyth

The ‘Rich’ Folk –

Excerpts from the Financial Post – 1928 – Bob Lindquist

The Time George Stevens Died – Jack Buckle

Bessie Rendell – Edward Pardy

Lydia Campbell’s Diary

In Memory of My Sister – Clara Voisey

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]]> Grub Cookbook https://themdays.com/product/grub-cookbook/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 16:56:05 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=1483 Do you miss Them Days' original cookbook, Caribou Cakes? We have a BRAND-NEW cookbook (taking a few hard-to-find recipes from the original) with all new recipes, interviews and articles about traditional Labrador food. This cookbook has 128 pages and spiral binding for easier use in the kitchen!

Learn how to make Labrador favourites, such as pea soup, flummies, wild meat dishes, and more! Learn about the importance of food in the rhythm of everyday life in Labrador, be it in food-gathering, hunting, fishing, berry-picking, preserving, cooking, and eating. This is a great gift for the foodie in your family!

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Meats- 
Foods from our Waters-
Birds-
Food from the Land- Robin McGrath
Beverages- 
Breads, Buns and Flummies-
Meals-
Preserving and Storing Food-
Boarding School Food-
Christmas, Holidays, and Celebrations-
Glossary-

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]]> Vol. 42, No. 4 https://themdays.com/product/vol-42-no-4/ Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:13:17 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3461 Vol. 42, No. 4 is an issue with all sorts of new information. Looking for information on the Broomfield family tree? Or perhaps you've always wanted to know more about kayaking. Well, it's all in here!

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]]> These Days at Them Days – Aimee Chaulk
Contributors
A Trip to Okak in November, 2018 – Jamie Brake
Stephen Lafricain: Labrador Native, US Civil War Veteran, Fur Trader, Grand Old Man of the Montreal River – Bruce Taylor
The Broomfield Family – Patty Way
Joseph (“Joe”) and Charlotte Lucy in Ailik: “National Helpers” of the Moravian Congregation at Makkovik – Hans J. Rollmann
Labrador Gallery: Ken and Carol Drudge fonds
Who What Where When Why?
Teaching in Red Bay – Ken Drudge
Memories – Phoebe Rich
The Way of the Eskimo – Kenn Harper
Mum’s Eulogy – Dave Paddon
Imagining Them Days at Uviluktok – Nicholas Flowers et. al
Kayak Use in Labrador – Noah Nochasak and Jamie Brake
Anatomy of a Kayak – Noah Nochasak
Then and Now

Front cover: Ted Earle’s youngest daughter, Debbie. Red Bay, 1970-72. Ken and Carol Drudge fonds.
Back cover: Scenes of the school Christmas party. Red Bay, 1970 or 1971. Ken and Carol Drudge fonds.

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]]> Vol. 41, No. 3 https://themdays.com/product/vol-41-no-3/ Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:26:15 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3171 We welcomed Megan Harrington, Doreen Davis- Ward and Bradley Baker to Them Days. Silpa Suarak grew up and heard everything Inutittut everywhere. In Rigolet the Inutittut is different than in Labrador. Olive Joyce Matthews worked for National Children's Home. Journal of Henry Gordon in Cartwright, 1918. Our Little School is poem by Marilyn Churley. Tara Saunders, Martin Shiwak, Jill Larkham and Andrea Procter head out in a boat in Rigolet. Captain William Jackman went in his vessel to visit his friend John Howell. William Gillett was a pastor. Richard Learning says there was a bridge built between Happy Valley and Birch Island. Stamp collectors got stamps as inuit art, polar explorers and more. In the early days there was a laundry operated by McNamara Constuction Corporation.

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UKâlalautta Inuttitut! Let’s Speak Inuktitut! – Ossie Michelin
Rigolet Inuktitut Dialect – Ellen Adams and Harriet Palliser
Olive Joyce Matthews
Teaching in the Dorm – Olive Joyce Matthews
Developments in North West River’s Education System – Kevin G. Ball.
Our community – Martha Andrews
The School – Ann Mistenapeu
Teaching in Sheshatshui – Hugh McGettigan
Stories of our Elders
Churchill The Mighty – Garfield Parsons
Teaching in Labrador West – Caroline Dobbin
Behind the Wheel – Dr. Harry Paddon
Journal of Rev. Henry Gordon
Our Little School – Marilyn Churley
Labrador Gallery: School Days
Who What Where When Why?
Where In The World
Mud Lake School Days – Robin Broomfield
The Heroism of William Jackman
The Gospel Messenger – Burton K. Janes
The Birch Island Bridge – Richard Learning
Growing Up on Birch Island – Helen Hickey
Discovering Birch Island – Bertha Holeiter
Labrador Through the Eyes of a Stamp Collector – Robin McGrath
Laundry – Lorimer Leroy Wright
Reflections on an Airline – Roger Pike
Digging Up Double Mer – Lisa Rankin
Then and Now

Front cover: Students of Mushuau Innu School, Davis Inlet dressed for their performance of Naked Davis, directed by Lou Byrne. 1981-82. Labrador North Creative Arts Festival.
Back cover: Moving of schoolhouse. Nain, 1936-37. Kate Hettasch collection.

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]]> Vol. 42, No. 1 https://themdays.com/product/vol-42-no-1/ Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:05:57 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3294 The March 2018 issue of  Them Days contains stories of Travelling, Gardening and Nursing.

Them Days been busy meeting people & identifying photographs. Isabel Henniger says Aimee Chaulk's substitute did an excellent job. Erica Oberndorfer is a post-doctoral fellow at Labrador Institute. Labrador Rhubarbs by Erica Oberndorfer and Tyler Smith. Ron Perrault says in the summer people would travel A to B point. Gordon Parsons left Goose Bay in April of '73. St. John's is on it's fifth circuit in July 1830. Norma (Cave) Sparkes' mom is from England. Photo of Larisa Kale with one of her cats and Them Days cookbook in Keller, Texas. Photo of John Burdett, Sam Clark and Solomon Burdett at Muddy Bay 1915-1919. Shirley Moores mom is Elsie Learning from Cartwright, NL. Jessie Reeves can remember drawings for her aunt Elsie. Clayton Saunders was born in Goose Bay, NL. Rhyna Daisy McLean was born in North West River, NL. Why I Chose to be a Nurse by Rhyna Daisy McLean.

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Letters
Contributors
Labrador Rhubarbs –Erica Oberndorfer and Tyler Smith
A Wonderful Trip – Ron Perrault
The Aurora – Gordon Parsons
An Interlude at Hopedale, 1830: Extracts from the Journals of George Simms, J.P. – Augustus G. Lilly
The Cave Family – Norma (Cave) Sparkes
Labrador Gallery: Cave Family fonds
Who What When Where Why
Where In The World
Charlie Bird’s House –Aimee Chaulk
My Mother’s Quilt – Shirley Moores
I Tried to Do as Best I Could – Jessie Reeves
The Boys Used to be Outdoors All the Time – Clayton Saunders
Humans of Labrador – Tamarack Camera Club
Eulogy for Rhyna McLean – Richard Budgell
Why I Chose to be a Nurse – Rhyna McLean
Then and Nowindi

Front cover: Wilson Cave and Kitty Keddie. Cartwright, 1934. Cave Family fonds.
Back cover: Off to the trapping line. Cave Family fonds.

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]]> Vol. 41, No. 1 (Women) https://themdays.com/product/vol-41-no-1/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 14:21:54 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=2148 This issue focuses on women in Labrador. Honouring Inuit Women's Leadership by Andrea Procter. Mikak was born around 1740. Fran Williams grandmother is Kitora Boase. Megan Webb's grandmother is Rose Webb. Tyler Edmunds' grandmother is Silpa Edmunds. Patty Way's grandmother is Una Bertha May (Mae) McNeill Pardy. Molly Shiwak's grandmotherly his Blanche Shiwak. Caroline Nochasak's grandmother is Sarah Nochasak. Jodie Lane's Gram sits in the chair and knits. Miriam Brown is Brianna Brown's grandmother. Taylor Ivany's grandmother is Jenny Ikkusek. Julius Dicker and Mary Adelaide's mom was Mary Dicker. Sharon Edmunds mom is Ruth Flowers. When Gwen Watts think about her life, she has been influenced by alot of women. Rose Oliver's dad and the elders sit around in the kitchen with a pipe smoke. When Richard Learning was 8 year's old it was him and his mom in the house at that time. Doris Saunders is a native Labradorian of Inuit, Indian and white descent. Cecilia Brown Saunders' first involvement in the Mokami Status of woman Council was in 1979. Readying for Change by Reta Saunders. The Happy Valley's Mokami Status of women Council started in the 70's. A woman Was Just Like A Guy by Aniet Nuna. Marion Kippenhuck was born in Newtown. The Foundation of the Women's Institute on the Labrador Straights by Helen Woodrow. Between Forteau and L'anse Au Loup stands a Labrador Straights Museum. Some Things Will Never be Forgotten by Stella Fowler. Martha McDonald was widowed at 47 year's of age. Diane Brown and Ivy Learning were sisters.

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These Days at Them Days – Janice Goudie
Honouring Inuit Women’s Leadership – Andrea Procter
Mikak
Kitora Boase
Rose Webb
Silpa Edmunds
Bertha Andersen
Blanche “Harriet” Shiwak
Sarah Nochasak
Mary Andersen and Peace McNeill
Miriam Brown
Jenny Ikkusek
Eva Palliser
Charlotte Wolfrey
Mary Dicker
Ruth Flowers
Beatrice Watts
My Mother’s Kitchen – Rose Oliver
Mother’s New Washing Machine – Richard Learning
I’m a Woman of Labrador – Doris Saunders
Labrador Gallery:Women of Labrador
Creating Mokami Status of Women – Jade Rachwal
Readying for Change – Jade Rachwal
Funding for Libra House – Jade Rachwal
A Woman Was Just Like a Guy – Nishapet Penashue
Memories of St. Michael’s Bay – Sylvia Moore
The Foundation of the WI on the Labrador Straits – Helen Woodrow
Exhibiting Women of History
Some Things Will Never be Forgotten – Stella Fowler
Makin’ a Livin’ – Martha McDonald
Reflections of the Good Days – Andrea Procter

Front cover: Marion Bird. Grady, 1945. Courtesy of Willis Bird.
Back cover: First Labrador Company of Girl Guides. Cartwright, c.1940. Courtesy of Judy Pardy.

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]]> Vol. 40, No. 4 https://themdays.com/product/vol-40-no-4/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 17:23:58 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=1555 Janice Goudie’s husband is Jerry Goudie from Postville. Patty Way has been working as a genealogist since she was a youth. Samuel James Thomas was born in Blackford, Somersetshire, about 1799. Family Tree of  The Thomas family. Gary Mitchell never had an exposure to nalujuks because  Makkovik was mainly settler community. Alice Perrault’s parents were missionaries. Verne MacKinney ‘s home town was Springfield, Missouri. Remembering the MacKinneys by Paul Blake. Guy Pye makes  snowshoes and birch brooms. Dorothy Mesher is from Northern Quebec. Andrea Webb had Christmas Pageants in all Inuktitut and English. Ventura Crash by Chris Charland. Station Flight’s Otters is by Chris Charland. Hark the Hearld Turbines Sing is an issue by Chris Charland. Enid McNeill came to Makkovik in 1966.

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These Days at Them Days – Janice Goudie
The Labrador Puzzle – Ossie Michelin
Levin Theodor Reichel’s Moravian Map
The Thomas Family Connection – Patty Way
The Thomas Family Tree
Nalujuk Night – Gary Mitchell
Autobiography of Alice Perrault
A Missionary’s Last Flight – Burton K. Janes
Remembering the MacKinneys – Paul Blake
The Snowshoe Man – Guy Pye
Labrador Gallery: Sanborn J. Tenney Collection
Who What Where When Why?
I’ve Seen Two Towns Grow Up – Dorothy Mesher and Hilda Mugford
Billy Goat Gruff – Andrea Webb
Ventura Crash – Chris Charland
Station Flight’s Otters – Chris Charland
Hark the Herald Turbines Sing – Chris Charland
Fifty Years in Makkovik – Jenna Anderson
Then and Now   

Front cover: Olive Michelin, as appeared in The Honker, published by the RCAF. Christmas 1945, Goose Bay.
Back cover: MacMillan’s snowmobile. Anatalak Bay, 1927. Kate Hettasch collection.

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]]> Vol. 39, No. 4 – Floaters, Stationers & Livyeres: The Labrador Fishery in Them Days https://themdays.com/product/vol-39-no-4-floaters-stationers-livyeres-the-labrador-fishery-in-them-days/ Mon, 14 Dec 2015 19:52:10 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=1290 Vol. 39, No. 4 - Floaters, Stationers & Livyeres is a special issue of Them Days dedicated to the history of the Labrador Fishery. A double-sized issue packed with the history of the Labradory Fishery, it examines the relationship between Newfoundlanders and Labradorians.

This product has 128 pages. Alot of photo's of the early days, table of contents, Them Days magazines thanks people who have shared their stories and times, names, this issue has been funded by the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. And also has 37 topics, and plenty of authors.

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These Days at Them Days – Aimee Chaulk
Reflections on the Labrador Fishery – Sam Saunders
The Life For Me – Alex Saunders
From One Quarter to the Next – Bill Andersen
Memoir of a Floater – Edward John Goudie
The Schooners and the Cod Fishery – Ted Andersen
He Came Back – Millie (Mitsuk) Martin
The Little Church on Uviluktok – Dr. Hans J. Rollmann
Aillik – Bill Andersen
Not Much of a Price – Herman Sheppard
Annual Report of the Moravian Mission, Hopedale, 1921-22
Some Bad Frights – Job Edmunds
The Fish Buyers and Our Grub – Bill Andersen
Boy, It Was Rough – Ron Gear
Your Own Pair of Gloves – John Andersen
The Best Times – John Winters
Strawberry Song and the People in It – Sandy Boland/Joan Andersen
Annual Report of the Moravian Mission Hospital, Okak
The Way People Worked Together – James R. Andersen
The Seaman’s Psalm
Umiatutib Imgerutinga
Father Went to Holton – Ray Norman
I Never Fished But I Found a Home in Labrador – Gladys Roberts
New Harbour, Trinity Bay, Telegraph News
Lake Melville People – Max Blake
Fequet’s Place, Pack’s Harbour, 1950 – John O. Heard
A Punt-Load of Fish – Dave Massie
Our Customary Ways – Ken Mesher
Indian Tickle – Melvin Baxter Penney
Big Fish – Don Sheppard and Fred Evely
Sheppard Family Obituaries
It Was Better Fishing in Labrador – George Roach
I Was on the Labrador Too – Sylvia Roach
Must Have Been Love – Heber (& Harriet) McGurk
Mom’s Pictures – Ward Mercer
It All Started With the Fishery – Roger Pike
The Loss of the Mary F. Harris – Peter Laracy
Feather Hooks – Cleidus Earle
Plenty of Fish, But… – Wilfred Davis
To Be Part of That Story – Frank Flynn
For the Love of Cod – Alex Saunders

Front cover: Pronging up the fish. Postville, early 1960s. Joan & Ross King fonds
Back cover: Hauling the nets. 1980s. Courtesy of Don Sheppard

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]]> Vol. 38, No. 3 https://themdays.com/product/vol-38-no-3/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 17:42:19 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=1109 Them Days had a very productive summer. Paul Blake Sr. was born on Birch Island in 1946. The Early days by Anita Battcock, Helen Hickey, and Nellie Roberts. When Susan Felsberg first came to Happy Valley there was One Catholic Priest. Short reflections about the 16 years Charles deHarveng spent at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish was for the use of the CWL Memory album celebrating the first 25 years of the Parish. J. Harold Conway, OMI came to Happy Valley in March or April 1976. When I left Happy Valley, I was richer by Dolores Bussiere. Anita Battcock moved to Happy Valley, August 1957. Goose Bay's Douglas Dakota by Chris Charland. Bridget Murphy was in Davis Inlet since 1957-1991. William Elworthy wrote a diary. It was 1930's or 40's when Annie Brown went Ben's Cove. Douglas Brown remembers Annie Brown. In June 2005, Winston White had the opportunity to go Texas, USA. Evelyn Keener 's roots are in Pennsylvania. Nora Elson says the Labrador Flag is a great symbol that we have for Labrador. Donald William Campbell was born August 5th, 1943.

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Contributors
The Early Days –Anita Battcock, Helen Hickey, Nellie Roberts
He Knew His Flock – Susan Felsberg
Sixteen Years – Charles deHarveng
A New Adventure – J. Harold Conway
When I Left Happy Valley, I Was Richer Dolores Bussière
Our Lady Queen of Peace Timeline – Charles deHarveng
Word Spread Quickly – Anita Battcock
Goose Bay’s Douglas Dakota – Chris Charland
Hallowe’en – Bridget Murphy
Labrador Gallery: Churches
Who What When Where Why?
W.H. Elworthy’s diary, 1902
A Tribute To Annie Brown – Paul Blake
I Remember Annie Brown – Douglas Jacque
The Big Land – Winston White
“Oh, You’re Back Again!” – Evelyn Keener
When I See the Labrador Flag – Nora Elson
My Pop, Donald Campbell – Tessa Ward
Then & Now

Front cover: Annie Brown and Willie Andersen with birds. Ben’s Cove, August 1930. Alice Perrault collection.
Back cover: Winston White giving children a ride. Twin Falls, 1960s. Courtesy of Max McLean.

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