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Charlie Bown Bell Island Miner
Arthur Clarke Ambulance Driver
Howard Elliott Big Game Outfitter
Margaret Giovannini Outport Nurse
Gordon Lannon Train Conductor
Howard Lethbridge Trapper
Jack May Lighthouse Keeper
Frank Mercer Newfoundland Ranger
Florence Michelin Grenfell Nurse
George Snow Lumberman
Hubert Waterman Twillingate Fisherman
Millie Young Port au Port Midwife
. . . and many more who share experiences from various walks of life: true stories of shipwrecks and sailors, moonshine and home remedies, the seal fishery, the 1959 Badger riot, and young men and women who survived the 1929 Burin tidal wave, who cooked on the Labrador, and who marched off to war.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Not too long ago [electronic resource]: stories of a traditional way of life / Garry Cranford, [editor]. -- 2nd ed.
Includes index.
Includes Our lives (originally published 2000).
Electronic monograph.
Issued also in print format.
ISBN 978-1-926881-99-7 (PDF).--ISBN 978-1-926881-69-0 (EPUB).--ISBN 978-1-926881-70-6 (MOBI)
1. Newfoundland and Labrador--Social life and customs--Anecdotes.
2. Newfoundland and Labrador--History--Anecdotes. I. Cranford, Garry, 1950- . II. Title: Our lives.
FC2168. N682012 971.8 C2012-901122-3
2012 by Garry Cranford
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We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities; the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $24.3 million in writing and publishing throughout Canada; the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation.
In 1998, I was engaged by the Seniors Resource Centre, based in St. Johns, Newfoundland and Labrador, to interview and record recollections of seniors around the province, especially those involved in some way with the associations outreach program. To facilitate this, the Seniors Resource Centre put out a call through its outreach programs for volunteers, and asked outreach leaders to refer me to persons in their communities who might not otherwise come forward.
I spent that year travelling around the province, visiting seniors in their homes, and taping interviews. I was briefed on the backgrounds of these seniors and the highlights of their experiences. In Bonavista, I interviewed fishermen; in Burin, seniors with memories of the 1929 tsunami; in Labrador, stories of the trapline; on the west coast, stories of experiences in World War II; and in Twillingate, a lighthouse keeper. These people shared their stories of a pioneering way of life, raising families in hard times, stories of close calls while engaging in sealing, and, of course, wherever I went, I asked for ghost stories.
The purpose of the Seniors Resource Centre project was to collect stories of high interest from seniors with which other seniors would identify, and therefore encourage them to become engaged in reading. Another outcome was to produce a lasting social studies collection of interest to future readers, students, and researchers of Newfoundland and Labrador culture.
The end result was over 100 hours of taped interviews, and hundreds of pages of transcribed conversations. From there I edited the transcribed texts, and a panel of seniors selected those they found most interesting. Setting priorities, a collection of stories found its way into book form, titled Not Too Long Ago, and its length was determined by the budget available for a book.
Because there was so much additional incredible material left unpublished, Flanker Press took it upon itself to produce a supplementary book titled Our Lives, featuring stories that had been culled and excluded from the initial selection.
Both books are now combined in this new, expanded and revised edition. Royalties from the sale of this book will go to support programs of the Seniors Resource Centre.
GARRY CRANFORD
FEBRUARY, 2012
I wish to thank the 66 seniors who contributed to Not Too Long Ago.It is said that experience is a great teacher. If so, your experiences areabout to give readers a great education in Newfoundland andLabrador history and culture.
All of you have greeted me in your homes, and offered an openinvitation to return. I would like to thank you for your hospitality.
On behalf of generations to come, I congratulate you on yourcontributions to this book.
Producing Not Too Long Ago took the co-operation of many people across the province. This would not have been possible withoutthose who know our communities and who know our seniors. I wishto thank Joan McLean of Northwest River and Janet Skinner andDonna Paddon of Happy ValleyGoose Bay. In Cartwright, Jessie Birdalso recommended many wonderful people to be interviewed.
Across Newfoundland, contributors were recommended by ournetwork of seniors, peer advocates, community leaders, and personal contacts: Barbara Barrett, Arnolds Cove; Linda Bath, Bonavista;Dorothy Bonnell, Bell Island; Peggy Doucette, Port au Port; TheresaGreeley, Gander; Evelyn Grondin-Bailey, Burin; Harriett Greene, Portaux Basques; Stella Hollett, Burin; Catherine Pennell, Trepassey;Philip Power, Grand Falls; Gladys Snow, Rocky Harbour; and JimYoung of Twillingate. Thank you all.
I would like to thank Coordinator Doris Hapgood, the teachers,and the students of the Rabbittown Learners Programme who work-shopped the material. Thanks to Pam Rideout and Janet Goosney ofTeachers On Wheels, and Suzanne Sexty and the other members ofthe Seniors Resource Centre Literacy Committee. Thanks to our readers: Hazel Blackwood, Evelyn Percy, Rick Simon, Brigitta Schmid, andMary Woodruff. Don McDonald and David White of the LiteracyDevelopment Council also offered valuable feedback and comments.I also appreciate the technical advice from Dr. Philip Hiscock of theDepartment of Folklore, Memorial University. For her overall encouragement and direction, thanks to Rosemary Lester, Executive Directorof the Seniors Resource Centre. Thanks to volunteer Jerry Cranfordfor the design and layout of the book, and to Margo Cranford andVera McDonald for reading final drafts.
Financial support for this project has been provided by theNational Literacy Secretariat (Human Resources DevelopmentCanada) and the Literacy Development Council of Newfoundlandand Labrador.
The stories in Not Too Long Ago were collected from seniors across theprovince, primarily through taped interviews, supplemented by written submissions. The reading style is as varied as the storyteller, andedited as little as possible, in an effort to retain the original flavourof the conversation. In all, there are 66 contributions.
In addition to those contributors for the literacy project, I haveincluded an interview I conducted with my grandmother, MildredCranford, who talks about In Service and On the Labrador.
The goal of this project was to bring together, under one cover, acollection of stories that represented a culture to which matureNewfoundland and Labrador readers could easily relate. By doing so,it is hoped that the content will have as high an interest level as possible to those readers this book is aimed at: the adult reader.
All major regions of the province are represented. In the originalediton of
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