Forms Requesting Resettlement, ca. 1957

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Forms Requesting Resettlement, ca. 1957

Your Name
Address

Position or
Appointment

Name of Settlements you think should be vacated. (In order of priority)	No. of families involved. (approximate)	Note the reasons why you think the settlement should be vacated.

Forms from ca. late 1950s

Your Name
Address

F.C.Paul Grubb
Moravian mission,
Nain,
Labrador,

Position or
Appointment

Minister of
Religion.

Name of Settlements you think should be vacated. (In order of priority)	No. of families involved. (approximate)	Note the reasons why you think the settlement should be vacated.
Hebron	Aproximately [sic] 58	This complicated matter. As general economy as good as any on Coast. But from health stand point and fuel is in very poor condition. But whole Northern Coast in very bad shape in regards to earning possibilities. These are reasons in very small nut shell.

Your Name
Address

W A PADDON MD

Position or
Appointment

Grenfell Mission
North West River

Name of Settlements you think should be vacated. (In order of priority)	No. of families involved. (approximate)	Note the reasons why you think the settlement should be vacated.
Hebron	30-40	Unfit for human habitation. Existence pauperizing the people of Hebron, wasting money and resources Recommendation: Move 8-10 families 1958 — repeat in 59 — vacate town and close station (except possibly for trout fishery in summer) in 1960.

Your Name
Address

Rev: F.W.Peacock M.A.
Moravian Manse
Happy Valley

Position or
Appointment

Superintendent
of Moravian
Missions in Labrador

Name of Settlements you think should be vacated. (In order of priority)	No. of families involved. (approximate)	Note the reasons why you think the settlement should be vacated.
Hebron	40	Hebron is approximately 150 miles from the nearest Eskimo settlement and is about 30 miles from the nearest source of fuel (wood) Every year people have to go farther for wood and must spend most of their time in the winter fetching fuel. The health in this remote settlement is poor. Moravian records show that the infant mortality is appallingly high, the highest on the Coast. The incidence of T.B. is higher than on other Eskimo stations. The cost both to Mission and Government in maintaining this settlement is high. The trout fishery could just as easily be prosecuted from Nain. If Hebron were closed the folk could be spread out among other villages to their own advantage To further education, to improve health and create better social conditions it would be wise to close Hebron. Furthermore to close Hebron would be to save man-power and money The People of Hebron can never hope to make a decent living in their present community I believe that they should be gradually moved out of this depressed area to places where better economic conditions prevail

Your Name
Address

Rev. George Gruchy
Deer Lake

Position or
Appointment

Rector,
DEER LAKE
PARISH.

Name of Settlements you think should be vacated. (In order of priority)	No. of families involved. (approximate)	Note the reasons why you think the settlement should be vacated.
The BEACHES HAMPDEN	15-20	No road connecting this Settlement to Hampden. Sea is washing away Shoreline. People must get to Bayside on Hampden for just about everything. Tiny one room school which is hard to fill with teacher. People must even go church by boat or walk around shore. Bayside is the logical place for the people to be moved. Government would be ill advised to put road to Beaches.
The ROOMS HAMPDEN	7 or 8	No road there from Hampden. A little one room school in dilapidated state. To get to Rooms from Hampden you must go by boat or around shore. Impossible to put road there unless a fabulous sum of money were spent. Why spend money thousands of dollars for families who should be moved to Bayside. Drinking water is a great problem. The people in these two adjoining places are all Anglicans and could be well cared for if they were moved to Hampden Bayside area where roads and other communities now are. A storm a short time ago washed away part of the Beaches, pity it didn't take more. The only sane thing to do is to move these people in where they are generally working (Bayside).