Storyline in Draft
Steering Committee
Wednesday, September 21
Point Amour
Cindy Gibbons, Parks Canada
Bonnie Goudie, Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation
Cindy Robbins, Facilitator
At our meeting last Wednesday we identified themes or the topics for an exhibit storyline for the Gateway. The purpose of this meeting was to draft a story line for review. The themes identified were:
Interior
People of Labrador, a chronological listing of peoples and their arrival in Labrador. This exhibit would have the associated sites highlighted.
Natural Attractions
Outdoor Attractions
Outdoor Lifestyle
Indoor Lifestyle
Gateway exhibit including the story of the Gateway from a church to a VIC and also exhibit space for Jersey Room artifacts
Exterior
Geology -rock garden
Flora-flower bed
Welcome / Orientation Map-
Story Line
PEOPLE OF LABRADOR
A 9000 year old legacy
Archaeology has revealed that the earliest humans to live in Newfoundland and Labrador arrived in southern Labrador about 9,000 years ago.The rich marine resources attracted them to the Strait of Belle Isle. Then about 5000 years ago these Maritime Archaic people began moving north into Northern Labrador and south into Newfoundland. They were called this for two reasons: "Archaic" because these people were hunters and gatherers and did not farm, and "Maritime" because they relied on the sea and its products to sustain themselves.Archaeologists distinguish this group of people by their use of marine resources, their beautifully crafted ground and polished slate knives, distinctive bone artifacts, and their ceremonial burials, which included using cemeteries and red ochre.
Graphics:
Map showing migration of earliest people
Highlighted Site: L’Anse Amour Burial National Historic Site.7500 years ago, people who are referred to as Maritime Archaic built this unique funeral monument for a 12 year old child.
Graphics: Image of burial mound or artifacts
Arrival of Paleo-Eskimo People
These people moved into Labrador from approximately 5000 years to 1200 years years ago. They cameacross the Canadian Artic from Alaska and down the coast of Labrador and further down into Newfoundland . Groswater bone, ivory, and antler harpoon heads were for hunting marine mammals and were distinctive in their smallness and fine craftsmanship. The Dorset paleo-eskimo excavations suggest that the Dorset occupation was a permanent, year round settlement. The Dorset Paleoeskimos disappeared from the island of Newfoundland by 1100 years ago but continued to survive in northern areas of Labrador until 600 years ago. Archaeologists have recovered thousands of artifacts including sled runners, soapstone pots, awls, scrapers, and harpoon heads.Numerous harp seal bones have also been unearthed, indicating the importance of this marine resource.
Graphics: Map showing movement of people
Flat image of associated tools found in area. Possible sources are Jim Tulk from Red Bay andmaybe Marianne Stopp from Cartwright?
Recent Indian People(what is correct term?)
3000-4000 years ago, ancestors of the Innu lived on the Labrador coast and practiced a traditional lifestyle in the same hunting grounds until very recently. The Recent Indians were were not marine specialists to the extent of the Paleoeskimos but had a more generalized economy, using resources from both the sea and land.
Graphics: Early image of Innu( possible source William Brooks Cabot 1930’s collection)
Map of traditional hunting grounds of Quebec and Labrador Innu and the communities they live in today.
Thule
The Thule, ancestors of the Labrador Inuit, arrived on the north coast of Labrador around the 12th century. They travelled south as far as the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland to trade with European fishermen and whalers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Moravians set up missions in Northern Labrador in the 1770’s to also trade with the Inuit and provided them with religious, educational, medical and social services.
Graphics: Early images of Inuit
Map
Vikings in Markland
The Vikings sailed in search of timber. Records document the Vikings bringing timber from Labrador to Iceland as late as the 13th century. The Vikings referred to Labrador as Markland meaning “land of timber”. In their sailings along the Labrador the Vikings also noted and included in their sagas reference to a vast expanse of beaches they called Wonderstrands, which is most likely the Porcupine Strand near Cartwright.
Graphics: Wonderstand picture, Source bear footprint by Robin Holwell
Map indicating Lanse Aux Meadows and Markland
French Fishery in Labrador
French exploration began in the 16th century with the arrival of the first recorded French fishing voyage to Newfoundland by the Bonn-Aventure of Brehat, Brittany in 1508. Many of the mapped place names are related to Brittany. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ousted French fishermen from Labrador.
Graphics: Images of trial and fort remains in West St. Modeste and or Red Bay
The Basques
By the 1540’s for about 80 years, whalers from the Basque region of Spain and France were hunting whales and processing oil at numerous ports in southern Labrador. Red Bay, known Les Buttes during the 16th century, was one of the largest and busiest ports, being home to as many as 1000 men each year for at least half a century.
Highlighted Site: Red Bay National Historic Site. Reproduction pottery and tiles.
Graphic:Map
Metis
In the1700’s Europeans, mainly British and French, began settling in Labrador. They came as fur traders and fishermen, carpenters and tinsmiths.. Many of these men married Inuit women and blended their ways with those of the Inuit. Winters were spent at heads of bays where there was timber for firewood and construction as well as easy access to the interior for trapping and hunting. Summer places, in carefully chosen harbours or on islands provided easy access to the sea for cod and salmon fishing and seal hunting.
Graphics: Metis children?
Settlers
With the Treaty of Paris in 1763 the French left Labrador. The people that settled in Labrador after that were from the Channel Islands and the West Country of England. During the first half of the 19th century Newfoundland fishermen began to settle along the coast of Labrador. These settlers are the ancestors of the present day population of Southern Labrador. After 1763 the British attempted to restrict settlement on the Labrador coast through the creation of a migratory fishery that limited competition for resources.However, by 1815, the fishery was almost totally in the hands of Newfoundland settlers with merchants purchasing fish from resident planters, settlers who had made Newfoundland and Labrador their home.While the Jersey merchants concentrated exclusively on the summer cod fishery, the English firms developed more diversified interests including seals and salmon.
Highlighted site: Battle Harbour National Historic District. One of these firms, John Slade and company of Poole, England was established at Battle Harbour, Labrador in the early 1700's.Battle Harbour soon became the major base for the region's cod and seal fisheries and for commercial trade.
Graphics: Saulter family? Elmer Harp photos?
Labrador Fishery
Text. Could this fit in any of the text above?
Highlighted Site: Battle Harbour National Historic District: Established by English merchants in the mid 1700’s, Battle Harbour became the unofficial capital of Labrador due to its proximity to the cod and seal fisheries. Today, refurbished mercantile premises, guided tours and artifacts tell the story of Battle Harbour.
Graphics:
Forestry
Describe forestry as a basis for settlement for some of our communities.
Happy Valley, Goose Bay, Labrador City, Wabush and Labrador City became the industrial centers of Labrador during the second half of the 20th century.
Graphics:
Navigation
Text.
Highlighted Site: Point Amour Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site. This lighthouse was one of 4 built by the Province of Canada in the 1850’s to guide ships travelling between Europe and the New World through the narrow and dangerous Strait of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Graphics: Map showing navigation lanes
Point Amour photos
NATURAL ATTRACTIONS
People were drawn to Labrador because of vast natural resources, abundant fish and sea mammals, and trees. Residents rely heavily on additional land resources such as berries, birds, etc.
Graphics: Images of icebergs, sea mammals, birds, plants
Slide show of photos with locations for viewing noted
Display: Art Piece maybe a silk banner hanging depicting a series of elements
Beach barrels
OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS
Located at the centre back(front view on entering) of the Gateway. This would be mostly a photographic display with pictures of outdoor activities, snow shoeing, icefishing, snowmobiling, dog sledding, wood cutting, whalewatching, etc. A large scale, floor to ceiling picture/painting of northern lights would be the backdrop for these pictures.
OUTDOOR LIFESTYLE
Text to include info on basis of lifestyle, fishing, forestry. Effects of moratorium
Highlighted site: Loder Point Premises, St. Lewis
Graphics: Hauling cod trap( Source Jersey project)
Fish Flakes
Display: Model boat and motor, trawl tub and fish box, shingled wall with display of fishing tools
INDOOR LIFESTYLE
A believable residental setting will be re-created
Display: Hooked rug and rocking chair
Painted wall
Clothesline with mitts, socks, cossacks
Period cupboard with household items that have attachment to some crafts being produced
Kitchen table with photo album & cookbook. The photo album could contain early pictures of the area, winter pictures. The cookbook would contained bond copies of the menus from local restaurants with information on some of the local dishes.
GATEWAY EXHIBIT
History of the church and why it was restored and a brief history of the people of L’Anse Au Clair relatingthe Jerseyconnection.
Graphics: Pictures of restoration
Display: Period cupboard with artifacts from Jersey Rooms, with an accompanying hutch for storage or a guestbook and donation box.
Heritage Quilt
Church Pew
INFORMATION DESK
The octagonal desk will be located to center front of the building. The top of the desk will display a highway map from Blanc Sablon to Cartwright, a Provincial map, a topographic map with notable sites highlighted.The front sides of the desk will be used to display community pictures, L’Anse Au Clair to Cartwright . The desk will also house 2 touch screen terminals giving access for visitors to accommodations, and other services in the region, and making use of databases already developed throughout Labrador and Viking Trail, and when developed throughout the Province.The underside of the desk will be used for brochure storage.
GEOLOGY
Exterior rock garden with descriptive text display per sample. Text would be mounted on stands that could be simply inserted into soil for summer display. Good samples of rock from Forteau Formation, Brador Formation, Fossil Reef, Precambrian granite and any others that may be identified as appropriate to include here.
Graphics: Geological time periods/Theory of Plate tectonics
Map of Geologic Hot Spots Map of GNP/Southern Labrador
Some plant species may also be identified in this exhibit, ie, tree species, Labrador tea, partridgeberries, blackberries, bakeapples.
FLORA
Develop an onsite flower bed/beds with samples of local flowers. Flowers/plants would be identified by text mounted on stands that could be inserted into soil.
WELCOME KIOSK
An exterior kiosk will be built to house information to orient people to the region for use especially when the Gateway is closed.
Graphics: Map with communities, distances and services indicated. Much like as in the LCD Visitor’s Guide
Display: 3 Flag Poles and flags
BROCHURE DISPLAY
We are primarily an information centre and space has to be available to professionally display brochures. A display unit in the foyer and a wall unit is currently being used for brochure display. Other options have to be examined. The Province will require that we display brochures by destination routes, which will use more space than is currently designated. The wall in the foyer could be used to install brochure racks but it is preferred that we use a more appropriate place as the foyer is often busy with traffic and there isn’t really enough space for browsing.
The foyer will also be used to display a reusable calendar of events and weather forcasts.
BATHROOMS AND BATHROOM HALLWAY WALL
These spaces are bare. The bathroom walls and can be used to display photographs, ie outhouses or other quirky things to see.The hallway wall can also be used for picture displays.
Wednesday, September 21
Point Amour
Cindy Gibbons, Parks Canada
Bonnie Goudie, Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation
Cindy Robbins, Facilitator
At our meeting last Wednesday we identified themes or the topics for an exhibit storyline for the Gateway. The purpose of this meeting was to draft a story line for review. The themes identified were:
Interior
People of Labrador, a chronological listing of peoples and their arrival in Labrador. This exhibit would have the associated sites highlighted.
Natural Attractions
Outdoor Attractions
Outdoor Lifestyle
Indoor Lifestyle
Gateway exhibit including the story of the Gateway from a church to a VIC and also exhibit space for Jersey Room artifacts
Exterior
Geology -rock garden
Flora-flower bed
Welcome / Orientation Map-
Story Line
PEOPLE OF LABRADOR
A 9000 year old legacy
Archaeology has revealed that the earliest humans to live in Newfoundland and Labrador arrived in southern Labrador about 9,000 years ago.The rich marine resources attracted them to the Strait of Belle Isle. Then about 5000 years ago these Maritime Archaic people began moving north into Northern Labrador and south into Newfoundland. They were called this for two reasons: "Archaic" because these people were hunters and gatherers and did not farm, and "Maritime" because they relied on the sea and its products to sustain themselves.Archaeologists distinguish this group of people by their use of marine resources, their beautifully crafted ground and polished slate knives, distinctive bone artifacts, and their ceremonial burials, which included using cemeteries and red ochre.
Graphics:
Map showing migration of earliest people
Highlighted Site: L’Anse Amour Burial National Historic Site.7500 years ago, people who are referred to as Maritime Archaic built this unique funeral monument for a 12 year old child.
Graphics: Image of burial mound or artifacts
Arrival of Paleo-Eskimo People
These people moved into Labrador from approximately 5000 years to 1200 years years ago. They cameacross the Canadian Artic from Alaska and down the coast of Labrador and further down into Newfoundland . Groswater bone, ivory, and antler harpoon heads were for hunting marine mammals and were distinctive in their smallness and fine craftsmanship. The Dorset paleo-eskimo excavations suggest that the Dorset occupation was a permanent, year round settlement. The Dorset Paleoeskimos disappeared from the island of Newfoundland by 1100 years ago but continued to survive in northern areas of Labrador until 600 years ago. Archaeologists have recovered thousands of artifacts including sled runners, soapstone pots, awls, scrapers, and harpoon heads.Numerous harp seal bones have also been unearthed, indicating the importance of this marine resource.
Graphics: Map showing movement of people
Flat image of associated tools found in area. Possible sources are Jim Tulk from Red Bay andmaybe Marianne Stopp from Cartwright?
Recent Indian People(what is correct term?)
3000-4000 years ago, ancestors of the Innu lived on the Labrador coast and practiced a traditional lifestyle in the same hunting grounds until very recently. The Recent Indians were were not marine specialists to the extent of the Paleoeskimos but had a more generalized economy, using resources from both the sea and land.
Graphics: Early image of Innu( possible source William Brooks Cabot 1930’s collection)
Map of traditional hunting grounds of Quebec and Labrador Innu and the communities they live in today.
Thule
The Thule, ancestors of the Labrador Inuit, arrived on the north coast of Labrador around the 12th century. They travelled south as far as the Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland to trade with European fishermen and whalers in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Moravians set up missions in Northern Labrador in the 1770’s to also trade with the Inuit and provided them with religious, educational, medical and social services.
Graphics: Early images of Inuit
Map
Vikings in Markland
The Vikings sailed in search of timber. Records document the Vikings bringing timber from Labrador to Iceland as late as the 13th century. The Vikings referred to Labrador as Markland meaning “land of timber”. In their sailings along the Labrador the Vikings also noted and included in their sagas reference to a vast expanse of beaches they called Wonderstrands, which is most likely the Porcupine Strand near Cartwright.
Graphics: Wonderstand picture, Source bear footprint by Robin Holwell
Map indicating Lanse Aux Meadows and Markland
French Fishery in Labrador
French exploration began in the 16th century with the arrival of the first recorded French fishing voyage to Newfoundland by the Bonn-Aventure of Brehat, Brittany in 1508. Many of the mapped place names are related to Brittany. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 ousted French fishermen from Labrador.
Graphics: Images of trial and fort remains in West St. Modeste and or Red Bay
The Basques
By the 1540’s for about 80 years, whalers from the Basque region of Spain and France were hunting whales and processing oil at numerous ports in southern Labrador. Red Bay, known Les Buttes during the 16th century, was one of the largest and busiest ports, being home to as many as 1000 men each year for at least half a century.
Highlighted Site: Red Bay National Historic Site. Reproduction pottery and tiles.
Graphic:Map
Metis
In the1700’s Europeans, mainly British and French, began settling in Labrador. They came as fur traders and fishermen, carpenters and tinsmiths.. Many of these men married Inuit women and blended their ways with those of the Inuit. Winters were spent at heads of bays where there was timber for firewood and construction as well as easy access to the interior for trapping and hunting. Summer places, in carefully chosen harbours or on islands provided easy access to the sea for cod and salmon fishing and seal hunting.
Graphics: Metis children?
Settlers
With the Treaty of Paris in 1763 the French left Labrador. The people that settled in Labrador after that were from the Channel Islands and the West Country of England. During the first half of the 19th century Newfoundland fishermen began to settle along the coast of Labrador. These settlers are the ancestors of the present day population of Southern Labrador. After 1763 the British attempted to restrict settlement on the Labrador coast through the creation of a migratory fishery that limited competition for resources.However, by 1815, the fishery was almost totally in the hands of Newfoundland settlers with merchants purchasing fish from resident planters, settlers who had made Newfoundland and Labrador their home.While the Jersey merchants concentrated exclusively on the summer cod fishery, the English firms developed more diversified interests including seals and salmon.
Highlighted site: Battle Harbour National Historic District. One of these firms, John Slade and company of Poole, England was established at Battle Harbour, Labrador in the early 1700's.Battle Harbour soon became the major base for the region's cod and seal fisheries and for commercial trade.
Graphics: Saulter family? Elmer Harp photos?
Labrador Fishery
Text. Could this fit in any of the text above?
Highlighted Site: Battle Harbour National Historic District: Established by English merchants in the mid 1700’s, Battle Harbour became the unofficial capital of Labrador due to its proximity to the cod and seal fisheries. Today, refurbished mercantile premises, guided tours and artifacts tell the story of Battle Harbour.
Graphics:
Forestry
Describe forestry as a basis for settlement for some of our communities.
Happy Valley, Goose Bay, Labrador City, Wabush and Labrador City became the industrial centers of Labrador during the second half of the 20th century.
Graphics:
Navigation
Text.
Highlighted Site: Point Amour Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site. This lighthouse was one of 4 built by the Province of Canada in the 1850’s to guide ships travelling between Europe and the New World through the narrow and dangerous Strait of Belle Isle and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Graphics: Map showing navigation lanes
Point Amour photos
NATURAL ATTRACTIONS
People were drawn to Labrador because of vast natural resources, abundant fish and sea mammals, and trees. Residents rely heavily on additional land resources such as berries, birds, etc.
Graphics: Images of icebergs, sea mammals, birds, plants
Slide show of photos with locations for viewing noted
Display: Art Piece maybe a silk banner hanging depicting a series of elements
Beach barrels
OUTDOOR ATTRACTIONS
Located at the centre back(front view on entering) of the Gateway. This would be mostly a photographic display with pictures of outdoor activities, snow shoeing, icefishing, snowmobiling, dog sledding, wood cutting, whalewatching, etc. A large scale, floor to ceiling picture/painting of northern lights would be the backdrop for these pictures.
OUTDOOR LIFESTYLE
Text to include info on basis of lifestyle, fishing, forestry. Effects of moratorium
Highlighted site: Loder Point Premises, St. Lewis
Graphics: Hauling cod trap( Source Jersey project)
Fish Flakes
Display: Model boat and motor, trawl tub and fish box, shingled wall with display of fishing tools
INDOOR LIFESTYLE
A believable residental setting will be re-created
Display: Hooked rug and rocking chair
Painted wall
Clothesline with mitts, socks, cossacks
Period cupboard with household items that have attachment to some crafts being produced
Kitchen table with photo album & cookbook. The photo album could contain early pictures of the area, winter pictures. The cookbook would contained bond copies of the menus from local restaurants with information on some of the local dishes.
GATEWAY EXHIBIT
History of the church and why it was restored and a brief history of the people of L’Anse Au Clair relatingthe Jerseyconnection.
Graphics: Pictures of restoration
Display: Period cupboard with artifacts from Jersey Rooms, with an accompanying hutch for storage or a guestbook and donation box.
Heritage Quilt
Church Pew
INFORMATION DESK
The octagonal desk will be located to center front of the building. The top of the desk will display a highway map from Blanc Sablon to Cartwright, a Provincial map, a topographic map with notable sites highlighted.The front sides of the desk will be used to display community pictures, L’Anse Au Clair to Cartwright . The desk will also house 2 touch screen terminals giving access for visitors to accommodations, and other services in the region, and making use of databases already developed throughout Labrador and Viking Trail, and when developed throughout the Province.The underside of the desk will be used for brochure storage.
GEOLOGY
Exterior rock garden with descriptive text display per sample. Text would be mounted on stands that could be simply inserted into soil for summer display. Good samples of rock from Forteau Formation, Brador Formation, Fossil Reef, Precambrian granite and any others that may be identified as appropriate to include here.
Graphics: Geological time periods/Theory of Plate tectonics
Map of Geologic Hot Spots Map of GNP/Southern Labrador
Some plant species may also be identified in this exhibit, ie, tree species, Labrador tea, partridgeberries, blackberries, bakeapples.
FLORA
Develop an onsite flower bed/beds with samples of local flowers. Flowers/plants would be identified by text mounted on stands that could be inserted into soil.
WELCOME KIOSK
An exterior kiosk will be built to house information to orient people to the region for use especially when the Gateway is closed.
Graphics: Map with communities, distances and services indicated. Much like as in the LCD Visitor’s Guide
Display: 3 Flag Poles and flags
BROCHURE DISPLAY
We are primarily an information centre and space has to be available to professionally display brochures. A display unit in the foyer and a wall unit is currently being used for brochure display. Other options have to be examined. The Province will require that we display brochures by destination routes, which will use more space than is currently designated. The wall in the foyer could be used to install brochure racks but it is preferred that we use a more appropriate place as the foyer is often busy with traffic and there isn’t really enough space for browsing.
The foyer will also be used to display a reusable calendar of events and weather forcasts.
BATHROOMS AND BATHROOM HALLWAY WALL
These spaces are bare. The bathroom walls and can be used to display photographs, ie outhouses or other quirky things to see.The hallway wall can also be used for picture displays.