Moravian Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=moravian 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 Moravian Archives - Them Days https://themdays.com/?product_tag=moravian 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. 46, No. 3 https://themdays.com/product/vol-46-no-3/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:09:21 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=60980 A general issue, with stories ranging from a first-person account of Moravian missionaries in the 1800s, tales from the whitefish fishery at Lobstick, the construction of Goose Bay, and more!

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Come Home Year 2022
The History and Presence of the American Radar Base in Hopedale – Emma Gilheany, Cadence Winters, Cole Dicker, Laura Winters
It was so Peaceful – David Rich
Ivy (Chaulk) Anderson, 1932 – 2022 – Carolyn Melbourne
Coronation of King George V, 1911
Nurse Taylor – David Campbell
Early Days: Alone – E. Mary Taylor
Treated with Respect – Gilbert Linstead
Labrador Gallery: Mary Taylor’s Photos
Who What Where When Why? 
Our Own Family: An Excerpt from A Labrador Childhood
Working in Labrador – Cold War Jobs of the 1950s (Part III) – Bruce Bourque
Labrador was a Happening Place – Basil Haire and Bill Keating
Then and Now

Front cover: Ivy (Chaulk) Anderson, 1971. Courtesy of Carolyn Melbourne
Back cover: Michel Pasteen with hammer. North West River, 1950s..

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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. 4 https://themdays.com/product/vol-45-no-4/ Sat, 18 Dec 2021 18:34:38 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=60508 This general issue tells the story of music in Happy Valley, starting where John Heard left off in Vol. 17, No. 3. It also tells the story of the workers from Argyle Municipality, NS, who came up to Goose Bay to work in construction on Base, building several buildings on the Canadian Side and Spruce Park. We also learn about what life was like for a child growing up in the Moravian Mission in Nain during the 1880s. The Labrador Gallery features photos of prams, strollers, and push-boxes. Also includes some heartwarming Christmas stories!

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Solving Archival Puzzles – Aimee Chaulk
Loss of traditional Labrador craft skills concerns local cultural organizations
CBC Labrador Morning’s Christmas Story Contest 
Christmas Far From Home – Dave Massie
A Magic Christmas – 1955 – Patty Way
Christmas—A Time of Hope – John O. Heard
Christmas Memories – Doris J. Saunders
What a Scoff –Alma Michelin
A Christmas Wish – Rebecca Jacque
Christmas Angel –Ruth Armstrong Jacque
Identifying the Author of the Moss Diary – Robin McGrath
How Bette Conway of Colliers Got ‘Drowned’ on the Labrador – John Joy
Digging into the Past: Sheshatshiu Archeology 2021 – Scott Neilsen
My Father, William E. French (1901-1979) – Carol Smith
A Labrador Musical History, Part II – John O. Heard
Labrador Gallery: Strollers, Prams, and Push-Boxes 
Who What Where When Why? 
Working in Goose – Bruce Bourque
Little Nashville – Tony Mesher
A Labrador Childhood – Hans-Windelkilde Jannasch
You Were Happy With What You Had –Reginald Hancock
Then and Now 

Front cover: John O. Heard. Happy Valley, mid-1960s. Courtesy of John O. Heard
Back cover: A cozy Christmas. John O. Heard and George Crawford on guitar, Rhoda Heard sitting on the edge of the chesterfield, Barbara “Hoody” Crawford standing, and children from left to right: Johnny Heard, Marshall Heard, and Joan Crawford. Happy Valley, mid-1960s. Courtesy of John O. Heard

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]]> Vol. 4, No. 1 – Digital Only https://themdays.com/product/vol-4-no-1-digital-only/ Tue, 15 Aug 1978 04:00:44 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=61427 This issue of Them Days contains a series of entries of a nurse in Indian Harbour, Labrador which describes the history of the patients, hospital workers and residents of the second International Grenfell Association hospital through 1911-1940. These entries have been quoted from Among The Deep Sea Fishers (ADSF) and Northern Nurse (NN). Learn about the Labrador craft of dancing dolls, wooden dolls carved by pocket knives made to move around and dance.

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Isaac Rich – David Lough

Feature: Indian Harbour Hospital – Judy McGrath

Back Home in Muddy Bay – Muriel Way

Labrador Crafts

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Fishing’ Fer a Cow – Michael Normore

I Reared My Brothers and Sisters – Clara Burden

Tribute to Aunt Bertha – Samuel Chard

School Days – Hilda Dickers

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]]> Vol. 43, No. 4 (Survival) https://themdays.com/product/vol-43-no-4/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 19:53:57 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3738 The December 2019 issue of Them Days is all about survival--from kayaking in the winter to crossing the Straits at dangerous times, to profiles on all the Inuit survivors of the Spanish flu in Okak.

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Devil’s Lookout Island – Melvin Hamel
Kajait and Ice: It Happened – Noah Nochasak
Trouble in Paradise – Ken Mesher
My Father Saved My Life – Priscilla Hamel
Adrift – Alex Saunders
A Comment on the Year 1945 – Louise Hammond
My Close Calls – Sam Saunders
Mailman Ernest Doane Crosses the Straits – William A. Fowler
The Journal of William Henry Elworthy – William A. Fowler
Jiri (Georg) Jaeger and the Spanish Influenza in Okak 1918 – Hans Rollmann
Who What Where When Why?
Where in the World?
Okak: The Living Legacy, 1919-2019 Okak Survivors of the Spanish Flu, 1918 – Patty Way
Hunting Trip – Percy Davis, Sr.
Labrador Gallery

Front cover: Inuk man preparing to go out in Kajak. Okak, c.1905. S.K. Hutton photo
Back cover: Sybilla Pamack (later married Jonas Hunter, and later Eli Nitsman), Rosie Barbour (Eleanora’s child, adopted by William and Regina Barber, later married to Chesley Webb), Eleanora (Pamack, Nukkapiak) Tuglavina. Nain, 1927-28. Kate Hettasch collection

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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. 3 – “A War of our Own”: Spanish Flu, 1918-19 [DIGITAL ONLY] https://themdays.com/product/vol-42-no-3-a-war-of-our-own-spanish-flu-1918-19/ Fri, 19 Oct 2018 14:59:48 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3370 The Spanish influenza pandemic of 1918-19 killed between 20 million and 100 million people worldwide. Nearly one-third of the entire world population was infected over a course of 18 months. In Labrador, the death toll was the among the highest in the world, if not the highest, percentage-wise. Its impact is still felt today. The largest community in Labrador at the turn of the century was Okak, and the Spanish flu was devastating there. All the men were killed, and the overall population went from 263 to 59. Okak was shut down as a Moravian Mission, and the community was disbanded. The Inuktitut language was dealt a severe blow—Okak and Hebron were Inuktitut-speaking communities, and orphaned children were sent to places where English were spoken. In Sandwich Bay, where more than a quarter of the population was killed, an orphanage was opened after St. Anthony's was filled to capacity. This magazine examines the terrible time in Labrador's history, 100 years later.
In Memoriam
Further Reading in Them Days

Also featuring accounts from: Bill Brown, Harriet (Learning) Barrett, Frank Davis, Charlotte Gear, Edward Pardy, John Pardy, May Pardy, John Dickers, Vera Butt, Marian Saunders Tharp, Arthur Ford Lethbridge, Miriam Hamel, Matilda Martin, Joseph Palliser, Elizabeth Goudie, Maud Chaulk, Sarah Ponniuk, Noah Ikkiatsiak, Joshua Obed, Emelia Merkuratsuk, Martha Joshua, Gustav Sillett, Herman Daniel, Kitora Boas, Maggie Saunders, Rosie Ford, Gwen Watts, Alex Saunders, Sophie Ford, and Bertha Holeiter.

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Excerpts from Cartwright HBC Post Journal, 1918
Rev. Henry Gordon’s Diary, 1918-19
A Letter from the Nurse at Indian Harbour – Selma Carlson
Excerpts from the HBC North West River Post Journal, 1918
Zacharias Zad, Silent Movie Actor, Perishes in Spanish Flu Epidemic – Kenn Harper
The Influenza Epidemic
Government Response – Anne Budgell
The Last Report from Okak 1918/1919 by Siegmund Waldmann – Hans J. Rollmann

Front cover: “The titles ‘Mr’ and Mrs’ are seldom used in Labrador: ‘Uncle’ or ‘Aunt’ are the normal forms of address. This is a dear old soul known as ‘Aunt Liz.’ She figures prominently in her heroic fight for survival at North River during the onset of the Spanish Flu.” Rev. Henry Gordon collection.

Back cover: Kitora Boas, Georg (Jiri) Jaeger, Eleanor Nivitsiak after the
Spanish flu. Okak, 1918. Julius and Rosie Ford collection.

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]]> Vol. 42, No. 2 https://themdays.com/product/vol-42-no-2/ Tue, 03 Jul 2018 17:28:39 +0000 https://themdays.com/?post_type=product&p=3339 The June 2018 issue of them days contains stories of the fishery, Okak, and Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Them Days had a fine help from Abby Winters and Aaron Cabot. An issue is Letters: A Memory of Doris Saunders. Gordon Parsons was one of the first to take an Oath of Citizenship. Nain was established in 1771. William Larkham, Jr. went to school in William's Harbour. Bertha Winters was born in Napartuk Bay. Vera Butt's grandparents are John and Mary Ann Davis. James Saunders was born near St. Anthony. Mavis Penney grew up in St. John's, NL. Robin Goodfellow- Baikie does berry picking all by herself. A Tribute to Jane is an issue by Ron Perrault.

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Letters: A Memory of Doris Saunders – Paul Blake
Oath of Citizenship – Gordon Parsons
An Eighteenth-Century Moravian Narrative about the Origin of the Settlement of Okak – Hans Rollmann
How One Fishery Ended and Another Began –William Larkham, Jr.
Kanuilijong? – Bertha Winters
Life at Cape North – Vera Butt
Labrador Gallery: Humans of Labrador – Tamarack Camera Club
Who What Where When Why
Partial Identification
Fishing, Trapping and Preaching: James Saunders and Joseph Tulk of Sandwich Bay – Burton K. Janes
A Life of Teaching in the Arts– Mavis Penney
Labrador par hazard – Robin Goodfellow-Baikie
A Tribute to Jane – Ron Perrault
Happy Valley Pioneer
Aboriginal Myths and Legends – Ryan Turner
Then and Now

Front cover: Bertha Winters. Courtesy of Bertha Winters
Back cover: Jacinda and Petrina Beals, photographed by Mike Hynes for
Tamarack Camera Club’s Humans of Labrador project.

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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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