So Few on Earth - Josie Penny

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       So Few on Earth

       So Few on Earth A Labrador Métis Woman Remembers

       Josie Penny

      DUNDURN PRESS

      TORONTO

      Copyright © 2010 Josie Penny

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission to photocopy should be requested from Access Copyright.

      Editor: Michael Carroll

       Design: Courtney Horner

       Map of Labrador by Christopher Pandolfi

       Printer: Transcontinental

       Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

      Penny, Josie

       So few on earth : a Labrador Métis woman remembers / by Josie Penny.

      ISBN 978-1-55488-709-5

      1. Penny, Josie. 2. Métis women--Newfoundland and

       Labrador--Biography.

       I. Title.

      FC109.1.P45A3 2010 971.82004'970092 C2009-907441-9

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      We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund and The Association for the Export of Canadian Books, and the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Book Publishers Tax Credit program, and the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

      Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credits in subsequent editions.

       J. Kirk Howard, President

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       First of all, I dedicate this book to my four children, Gregory, Darlene, Catherine, and Mark, who, though they were born in Happy Valley–Goose Bay, Labrador, aren’t familiar with the primitive lifestyle of their mother. I also dedicate this book to my nine grandchildren, all of whom were born in Ontario and have no concept of Labrador. I wish also to dedicate this book to my parents, Thomas and Flossie Curl, especially in light of their tenacity and determination to survive in Labrador’s isolated wilderness. And lastly, I dedicate this book to Violet Dyson, a dear cousin, who in the later years after my parents’ deaths was the only source available to me for information about Roaches Brook and Spotted Island … place of my birth. Thank you, Sissy.

       Contents

       9 The Making of the Fish

       10 Medical Care and Mail Delivery

       Part Two: Lockwood

       11 Heading for Lockwood

       12 Arriving at Lockwood

       13 School Days

       14 Learning the Rules

       15 Special Times at Lockwood

       16 Longing for Home

       17 The Children Return

       18 Learning to Cope

       Part Three: Return to Family

       19 Getting Home

       20 Muddy Bay

       21 The Move to Cartwright

       22 St. Peter’s School

       23 Life in Cartwright

       24 A Joyous Winter

       25 Spring Adventures

       Part Four: Later Life

       26 My First Job

       27 Challenges

       28 Coping with Tragedy

       29 Early Teens

       30 Growing Up

       31 Love and Conflict

      32 Leaving Childhood Behind

       Glossary

      A special thank-you and much gratitude to my original manuscript editor, Mary Labatt, who was extremely encouraging from the first phone call when I told her just a wee part of what my book was about.

      I would also like to thank Robert Nielsen, my first teacher at McMaster University, who in our initial class told us two things:

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