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Persoon · 1917-2000

Stephen Rupert Morris was born in Carbonear on August 3, 1917, to Fred J. Morris and Winifred (Hollands) Morris. He was the eldest of three children, Barbara Jean born in 1920 and Eric Roy in 1922. His Newfoundland roots go back to a great grandfather who arrived at Trinity in 1765 from Carnarvon in Wales.

He completed his high school education and went on to St. John’s where he attended Memorial University College for two years before returning home in 1936 to enter the family business. On April 17, 1941 Rupert joined the Canadian Army and served in the Royal Canadian Engineers in Canada and Overseas until the end of 1945 when he was discharged. He then completed a year of business school at the Maritime Business College at Halifax and returned home in 1946 to rejoin the family business, and oversaw the change over to Morris & Co. In 1947 he married Jean Barbour and they had one child, Ian Roy.

In 1948 Rupert and his father opened Trinity Cabins, the first tourist cabins in Newfoundland, which were operated by Rupert until 1995 when due to poor health he was forced to retire. The Cabins were subsequently sold and purchased by Glenn and Correine Johnson of Trouty and are still in operation.

Rupert’s father died in 1961 and Rupert carried on the company (Morris & Co.) until 1970, when changing times, coupled with a decline in the trading area population, made the continued operation of the company on a much smaller scale unwarranted.

In 1964 the Trinity Historic Sites Committee was formed at Trinity and Rupert became its first president. Following a successful archival display which was put on by the committee for “Come Home Year” in 1966, the Trinity Historical Society was formed in November of that year. Rupert was elected to the position of president and held this office until 1995. On January 8, 2000, at the age of 82, he passed away at the Health Sciences Centre, St. John’s.

Broomfield, Samuel J.
Persoon · 1852-1938

: Samuel J. Broomfield (1852-1938) was born in Groswater Bay and lived in Jack Lane Bay, Hunt's River, Big Bay and Davis Inlet, among other parts of Labrador. He was a trapper and warden throughout his life. In 1912, he wrote a letter to King George V congratulating him on his coronation and sending him a present of a handmade sealskin pouch. This letter was publicized in English newspapers. Broomfield married Eliza Learning (1858-1927) from Paradise River. They had 4 sons and 6 daughters and also raised a grandson, John.

D.B. Russell
Persoon · 1909-1990

David B. Russell was born at Bay Roberts on 29 July 1916, son of Charles E. and Francis (Pike) Russell. He was educated at Snowden Hall Methodist School. He was married in 1937 to Dorothy B. Jones and their children include: Howard, Elizabeth, Robert, Wilson and Donna. He had been in the printing business 52 years. His community involvements included: member of the Patriotic Association and Comforts Committee during World War II, member of the Bay Roberts Road Board, 12 years as a member of the Bay Roberts Town Council, member of the Kiwanis Club, active with the Red Cross Society, the Canadian Cancer Society and Newfoundland T.B. Association. He was sole operator of the Bay Roberts Guardian and D.B. Russell Printing from 1944 and associated with the operation in every capacity since 1930. He died in April 1990. He inherited the family- owned business from his father, Charles E. Russell.

C.E. Russell was born in Bay Roberts in 1877. The family moved to St. John’s and Charles began selling newspapers at the age of 9. He began as a member of the staff of the Telegram until the age of 17 when he moved to Toronto. He found employment with the Methodist Publishing House. He returned to St. John’s and along with Kenneth Barnes, printed and published a weekly newspaper called “The Citizen”. He moved back to Bay Roberts and in 1909 bought a small printing plant from Harris and Wesley Mosdell. On July 9, 1909, the first issue of “The Guardian” rolled off the man- power driven press. At the death of C.E. Russell, on October 30, 1937, the name of “The Guardian” was changed to “The Bay Roberts Guardian”. In 1920, an automated typesetting machine (linotype) was acquired along with an eight ton press. Photostat copies of “The Guardian” and “The Bay Robert’s Guardian” from 1909 – 1949 may be viewed at the Newfoundland Archives, St. John’s.

Rosina Holwell
Persoon · 195- -

Rosina Kalleo Holwell (195- ) an Inuit woman from Nain, Labrador, proficient in both Inuktitut and English has worked as a translator. She is the daughter of Josphina Kalleo and is married to Rex Holwell.

Kate M. Keddie
Persoon · 1887-1966

Kate Mary (Wilson) Keddie (1887-1966) was born in Seven Islands, Quebec. She moved to Montreal as a teenager where she was employed as a stenographer then later moved to Cumberland House, Saskatchewan where she met and married Philip Keddie. She was one of three people who survived the 1918 flu epidemic that killed most of the town's inhabitants, including her husband. Following this, K.M. Keddie moved to Manitoba where she worked as a court reporter, public stenographer, and Commissioner of Oaths. In 1930, she joined the staff of the International Grenfell Association and was sent to North West River, Labrador where she worked for three years as a hostess in the hospital. Then she went to Cartwright, Labrador where she established the handicraft department of the Grenfell Mission. As Industrial Director, in charge of handicrafts she travelled the Labrador coast and kept an account of her trips. She retired in 1958 and in 1960 went to Victoria, B.C to learn oil painting. She died in Winnipeg, Manitoba on November 2nd, 1966.

Richard Jordan
Persoon · 1973, 1975, 1978

Richard H. Jordan, an assistant professor of anthropology at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, in the 1970's, studied the history and process of culture change of the central Labrador Eskimo through archaeological techniques.

J. Garth Taylor
Persoon · 1776-1990

J. Garth Taylor was born in Cobourg, Ontario, in 1941 and received his Ph. D in anthropology from the University of Toronto in 1968. From 1968 to 1974 he was associate curator in the Ethnology department. He has taught at the Memorial University of Newfoundland, and had been employed at the National Museum of Man (later renamed the Canadian Museum of Civilization), Ottawa. Dr. Taylor has done field studies in several native communities, both in the Arctic and subarctic, and has carried out extensive historical research in museums and archives, in addition to being a published author.

Kate and Elliott Merrick
Persoon · 1982, 1986, 1987

Kate (Austin) and Elliott Merrick, Kate: (1895-1989), Elliott: (1905-1997). Kate Austin, originally from Australia, worked in Labrador as a nurse in the 1920s and 1930s. World War one influenced her decision to become a nurse, as it was an ideal occupation for travel and adventure. After being trained as a nurse, Kate left her family to work in France and later left France for Labrador in search of a more rugged experience. Elliott was the author of "Northern Nurse", a collaboration between husband and wife depicting Nurse Kate's experience in Labrador, as well as 7 other books and countless additional stories in magazines. Elliott was born into an affluent family in Montclair, New Jersey on May 11th, 1905. He worked with his father's firm, The National Lead Company for almost a year before travelling to Labrador as a volunteer with the Grenfell Mission. Following his time as a WOP (worker without pay) he stayed in Labrador as a school teacher in North West River where he met and courted Kate Austin. After the couple had been married and were expecting their first of three children they moved to New Jersey and later to a farm in Vermont, where the book "Northern Nurse" took shape. Kate died in 1989 at age 94 and Elliott died in 1997.

Leo Ehrenberg
Persoon · floriut 1970 - 198?

Leo Ehrenberg was a schoolteacher in Nain during the 1970s who married Mary Winters from Nain. He lived in Labrador until the mid 1980s.

Henry Lind
Persoon · 1840-1869

Rev. Henry Lind was a native of London, England. He and his wife arrived in Newfoundland to teach school at Port de Grave c. 1829. He was ordained by Bishop Spencer in 1840 and made a priest two years later. His first mission was at Catalina, Heart's Content. Rev. Lind was appointed Rural Dean of Bay St. George in 1857, and he died in 1869. See also P068.