Lives and Landscapes This page intentionally left blank Lives and Landscapes A Photographic Memoir of Outport Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949-1963 E L M E R HARP, J R . edited and introduced by M.A.P. Renouf with a contribution by Elaine Groves Harp McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca © McGill-Queen's University Press 2003 ISBN 0-7735-2517-3 Legal deposit third quarter 2003 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Singapore. This book has been published with the help of grants from the Johnson Family Foundation, the International Grenfell Association, the Historic Sites Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, the J.R. Smallwood Foundation for Newfoundland and Labrador Studies, the Memorial University of Newfoundland Publication Subvention Fund, and the Canada Research Chair in North Atlantic Archaeology. McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities. "How Shall I Remember Forteau?" was first published in the July 1962 issue of Among the Deep Sea Fishers and was reprinted in the January-April 2001 issue of Along the Coast. Permission to reprint was given by the Grenfell Regional Health Services, St Anthony, Newfoundland. National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Harp, Elmer Lives and landscapes: a photographic memoir of outport Newfoundland and Labrador, 1949—1963 / Elmer Harp; edited and introduced by M.A.P. Renouf; with a contribution by Elaine Groves Harp. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7735-2517-3 i. Harbors — Newfoundland and Labrador — History -2Oth century — Pictorial works. I. Renouf, Miriam A. Priscilla 11. Harp, Elaine Groves in. Title. HE554.A3H37 2003 387.i'o97i8 02003-900296-9 Typeset in Apollo MT 11.5/14.5 and Stone Serif. Book design and typesetting by zijn digital. I should like to dedicate these recollections to the memory of two longtime friends and enthusiastic members of my field crews, one an American and one a Newfoundlander. Their contributions were important components of our success, and we mourn their untimely deaths: Nicholas Listorti, 1945-1976 Walter Billard, Jr, 1945-1997 This page intentionally left blank Contents Maps ix Acknowledgments s xi Editor's Introduction: Newfoundland Outports xv LIVES AND LANDSCAPES Part One: 1949 3 Part Two: 1950 #3 Part Three: The 1960s 133 Bibliography 257 Index 261 This page intentionally left blank Maps The Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundlandd 2 Port au Choix 52 Author's sketch-map of main waterfront street of Port au Choix 57 Author's sketch-map of Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix 68