Nain diary

Tapestry of photographs depicting the life of the Nain Community in Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada 1965-66. Taken by John Penny, an 18 year old v.s.o. teacher - COME ALONG & JOIN IN THE FUN! YOU'LL HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE! Nain Diary extracts: Nain children, hunters, huskies, people, scouts, school, sports day, wilderness, views & more

Sunday, November 27, 2005

YOU'LL HAVE THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!

John Kalleo & David Mitsuk, Sept 65

AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME - NAIN, SEPTEMBER 1965


taken from an overlooking hill

MY FIRST VIEW OF LABRADOR - SOMEWHERE BETWEEN GANDER AND GOOSE BAY - TAKEN FROM EPA PLANE


COMING IN TO LAND AT GOOSE BAY, LAKE MELVILLE, LABRADOR SEPT 65

MY FIRST VIEW OF NAIN FROM THE COCKPIT OF THE WASP, SEPT 65

WONDERFUL WILDERNESS - TROUSER LEG LAKE - MAIRI & PENNEY, SEPT 65

Saturday, November 26, 2005

BOAT-BUILDERS


John & Wilfred Ford

BOAT PAINTING IN THE FALL


Mr. Lidd & Peter Moses looks on

EDUCATORS


Elfrieda in school corridor


Jerome Bergart, School Principal in his classroom


Jerome Bergart, School Principal


Mairi Pond, schoolteacher - going to work

ENTERTAINMENT


- a Nain lunch in the sunshine - Kate, Mairi, Elfrieda, Penney & Jerome

FACILITIES

Nain church, Sept 65

Nain church interior

Nain church from choir balcony


Nain Church from DNLA Store Amma Harris with my bag


David Harris DNLA store, Nain

FALL & WINTER VIEWS FROM MY BEDROOM WINDOW:

THE FALL

DNLA buildings, Sept 65

DNLA buildings, Sept 65

MV Bonavista, Sept 65

WINTER
Jerry Sillett's boat Nanuk Feb 66


Church, old mission house, Nain


Nain, Feb 66


Nain mission houses taken from the power house - Mairi


Nain looking north from church tower


JP at mission gate, wharfe in background


Nain's old mission house, my room top left


Looking towards Nain's power house from back door of mission house


Inside Nain's power house


Wharfe from mission compound


Maternity ward, Nain's Grenfell hospital


Nain's school from the hospital


Mountie Murray Carpenter photographing from the roof of R.C.M.P. house


Sunday School in Penney's classroom


The Seeko, Moravian Mission boat, unfortunately unusable

Friday, November 25, 2005

FISHING


mending cod traps - Tom Barbour & crew


Cod fish - Pipsi - drying on Mrs Brown's house


Fishing with Henry & Bill Webb, Mairi & Bert Voisey checking depth


Fishing with Henry & Bill Webb, Mairi & Bert Voisey near Kauk


Codding with George Dicker & Amos Fox


Mending nets on the wharfe


Webbs & Voiseys building a fish wharfe

MAIL BOAT


MV Bonavista, expectant Nain crowd, first boat of the year, June 66


Bonavista approaching Hopedale, July 66


Bonavista approaching Hopedale, Bertha Kairtok grade five


Bonavista landing at Division of Labrador Affairs (D.N.L.A.) wharfe Hopedale, going ashore with Ted Baird


Bonavista, iceberg near Cape Harrison


Bonavista, iceberg near Makkovik

Revd. Peacock's house port-of-call, Happy Valley, Sept 65