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[1: Women
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Slide Show Title: Women in the Fishery. As Bennett March of Brownsdale, Trinity Bay commented: "My mother, she salted and she almost lived over on the flake." Women cut, gutted, headed, split and salted fish all over Newfoundland in many communities for generations. They also washed it out, lugged it up onto flakes and spread, piled, re-spread, re-piled, and were frequently the first to jump when rain or other forces (flies, too much sun, etc.) threatened fish spread on the flake. They trained their daughters and daughters-in-law in the techniques and methods of making fish, just as their husbands taught their sons to fish. When women began leaving shore crews in various communities in the early decades of this century, one expert commentator from St. John's, giving evidence at a Royal Commission on the fisheries in 1936, stated: "The day that the women left the flakes was the down-fall of the fishery in Newfoundland." (PANL GN6. "Transcripts from the Newfoundland Commission of Enquiry Investigating the Seafisheries of Newfoundland and Labrador other than the Sealfishery. " Page 33. ) (Thanks to Dr. Gerald Pocius , CMCS). |
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Slide Show Title: On the Water - Inshore Fishing Trap crews were generally larger than hand-line and trawl crews.
They usually consisted of
three or more men who set and hauled the traps. These men worked on
the shore crews with their wives, daughters, and
sons cleaning and processing the large catches. The men directed activities
on the water while the women tended to direct the drying activities on
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Slide Show Title: Daily Life in Fishing Communities. |
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Slide Show Title: The Tools of the Trade. We thank the chief curator and her staff at the Museum for their kind assistance. |
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Slide Show Title: Ghost Outports. (We acknowledge the invaluable aid of the Encyclopaedia of Newfoundland & Labrador in supplying many of the details for this slide show). |
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