Sail Newfoundland and Labrador: A Resettlement Story
Newfoundland and Labrador has thousands of harbours and bays and each and every one has a story to tell. I have sailed and explored many of these places. Some populated and some not; most have one thing in common - Resettlement. A government program that assisted the people to relocate to so called growth centres. Over 300 communities and 30,000 people were moved under this program.
Barb Leonard of Isle Valen in Placentia Bay shares her experiences and how it affected parents, grandparents and the youth. Through drone footage and writings by Newfoundland and Labrador’s well know writer, Al Pittman, you will feel the emotion of Resettlement and the beauty of these isolated destinations.
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Another beautiful video Ed! Thanks for sharing!
Ed, This is wonderful ! Love the music background. Congratulations on a very well done project!
Another great video about Newfoundland Thanks for doing this Ed. Please keep up the good work. And you deserve ‘ The Order of Canada ‘ for your devotion to ‘community’
This video says a lot about life on the Rock and the people who call it home. They who come before us, never let their memories and stories fade.Thank you for documenting this Ed O'Reilly.
Such wonderful glimpses into a time that is slowly slipping away from us. Truly transforming. As always, thank you... Marian 🇨🇦
Great job. Bravo!
Great video Ed! Stunning vistas of beautiful, remote places that few are fortunate enough to visit. Insightful, personal description of what resettlement was like from Barb.
Thanks for posting this video of the beautiful places alot of us will not get to see.Great work.
Beautiful ! Keep up the great work 👍
ed, george wilson was my grandfather and i was 5 when my family (the last to leave) left Merasheen! Thank you for this visual love story!
Well done. It's good to see some resettlements being resettled or some of their structures renovated. Battle Harbour is a good example. Former residents are also renovating the historic church in Petites. Individual and collective actions such as these can help maintain a historical understanding of the lives of those who long populated these outports.
Great video Ed.I'd loveto have visited some of those places.
Thanks Ed!
Just a great video and augmented with the inclusion of the beautiful Isle Au Valen and narration by island daughter, Barb Leonard King-my good friend and former colleague.
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Thank you Hiubert. Barb did a great job. Her message was clear and precise!
Great video Mr. O'Reilly and great job Barb Leonard. Thank you both.
My sweet boy Chico in the intro and at the ending! Thank you for mention of our sweet doggie. We miss him so very much and that added touch means so very much to us! ❤
Wonderful Ed... GREAT to see another beautiful pictorial portraying the way we were. Your drone-work and moody music certainly presents "the" mood and perspective. Interestingly, I relay closely to the video, as with the others, having had visited so many of the settlements... most particularly, in 1967 with the CN Coastal Service on the White Bay- Green Bay run aboard the MV Hopedale and in 1971 with DREE on the Resettlement program, (canvasing communities to collect data and seniors' opinions) on the south coast and eastern half of the Prov (1971). Your video helps bring back very fond memories of places and people. THANK YOU.
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Thanks Derek! That would have been quite the experience, especially to see what is left in many of theses communities.
In the 80s, I absorbed the phantom pain that lingered in many of the abandoned bays of Notre Dame... this after Black Island: Autumn cliffs resound gulls delight, salted spray flights of puffin whirr away.
Between Quirpon and St. Lunaire is the abandon community of Fortune which was resettled in 1972.
Ed are you certain that is Exploits there at 4:10.?
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No Sir; that is Petites!