St. Bartholomew’s 1833-1854. St. Peter’s 1854-1920. St. Lawrence 1920-2000. St. Lawrence 2000 -present.
The parish began as part of a much larger Conception Bay mission which was established by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in 1765. The first member of the society in the region was the famous Rev. Lawrence Coughlan who served the area from Harbour Grace.
In 1826, the mission of Port de Grave was established to serve the area from Bay Roberts to Brigus. For the next ten years Coley's Point, along with Bay Roberts, was part of Port de Grave Mission under Rev. Charles Blackman. The mission of Bay Roberts was established in 1837 to encompass the settlements from Coley's Point to Upper Island Cove. Although Bay Roberts was only now receiving the status of a separate mission, its residents already had their own church in Mercer's Cove. The first St. Matthew's Church had been started in 1824 and consecrated in 1827. The missionary society continued to supply clergymen until the Parish of Bay Roberts was created in 1906.
The construction and completion of the present church building of St. James, Church was in 1864. However, the present structure is not the first one to service the Parish. The previous church, build in 1815, was also called St. James' Church. There was also a small church or meeting house built about 1762.
There was no Anglican Church in Carbonear between 1788 and 1815. Up to 1840 the Anglican population of Carbonear and Harbour Grace formed one parish. Most of the early clergy served the Parish under the auspices of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
Land was procured around 1813 and the first St. James Church was completed in 1815. In 1819 the congregation pledged to support a priest of their own. On April 9th 1860, the foundation lines were marked out for the construction of a new church. Ground was broken on May 7th 1860 and work continued until June when a large portion of the congregation left for the Annual Labrador Fishery. The shortage of volunteer labor unavoidably slowed construction. However, the church was completed in 3 ½ years and was consecrated on November 10th 1864.
For many years Topsail was included in the Mission of Foxtrap and the Church of England congregations were served by visiting clergy from St. John's. As early as September, 1832, Thomas Martin Wood was made a Deacon by Bishop Inglis, and before the year was out he was appointed to the Charge of St. John's Outports, which at that time included Topsail and the other settlements on the south side of Conception Bay and Petty Harbour.
The first resident clergyman in Foxtrap was a Missionary - Benjamin Fleet, who came to Newfoundland and ordained Priest in 1842 by Bishop Spencer. After 4 years in the Burin Mission he moved to Foxtrap, where he died in 1876. Rev Fleet and his people built a first small chapel which was later replaced with a more pretentious one. It was said that he ordered men to sit on one side of the Nave and the woman on the other side. Between 1895 and 1911, Foxtrap and Topsail split.
In 1905 St. Peter's Church was built at Hopewell, but still remained part of the Foxtrap Mission. Rev. Caldwell came in 1904 as the Rector of the Foxtrap/Hopewell Mission and at that time the rectory was on the site, in Foxtrap, where the Queen Elizabeth High School used to stand on Lodge Road. In 1906, Rev. Caldwell, appointed two members for the Select Vestry from the communities of Long Pond, Foxtrap, Middle Bight, Kelligrews, Greeleytown and Peachytown. In 1912 the mission was extended to Indian Pond in Seal Cove. By 1923 there were 2,000 members.
In 1928 the Mission of Foxtrap was raised to a Parish status and was now known as the Foxtrap/Hopewell Parish.
In 1976, St. Peter's Mission became a separate parish to be known as the Parish of Upper Gullies (Hopewell), comprised of Upper Kelligrews, Upper Gullies, Seal Cove and Holyrood. This became official on August 31, 1976.
CBC Northern Service is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation serving northern Canada. Initially radio transmission in Happy Valley, Labrador began in 1946/47 and was operated by the Canadian Armed Forces. On February 23, 1959 it was taken over by the CBC in order to reach a civilian audience and integrated into the Northern Service. In 1970 it ceased to be part of the Northern Service and became part of Newfoundland regional radio. CBC continues to broadcast to the residents of Labrador through their studio in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.
S.B. Fequet & Son (190- -1970) was founded by Samuel Butler Russell Fequet, of Old Fort, Quebec. The business had main locations in Cartwright and Pack's Harbour as well as for a short time in North West River and Paradise River, Labrador. S.B. Fequet & Son was a merchant operation that provided hunters and fishermen with necessary supplies in exchange for their game and fish and served as a general store. Sam Fequet and his son operated the business until it went bankrupt due to an unsuccessful fishery in 1970.
The Moravian Church, or Unitas Fratrum (United Brethren) began in 1457 out of the Hussite Wars of Bohemia (now Czechoslovakia). Missionaries were sent to the West Indies to work among the slaves, and shortly after to Greenland to work with the Inuit. The Moravian Mission in Labrador branched from the missions in Greenland and was initially attempted in 1752. On July 31st, 1752 the first Missionaries arrived at Nisbet's Harbour and on September 15th, 1752 the boat returned to Nisbet's Harbour with the news that Brother Erhardt and six crew members must have been killed, because they did not return from their expedition. Establishing the mission in Labrador was re-attempted and, in 1770, the Moravians were granted one hundred thousand acres of land along the Labrador coast by King George III. From this the Missionaries created eight districts which became the center of life for the Inuit and Settler families in these areas whose income came primarily from fishing and hunting. In 1926 markets for fur and fish suffered due to the Depression resulting from World War I and subsequently, the Moravian influence on the Inuit of Labrador diminished as they lost control of the central areas they had established. The religious influence of the Moravians, however, continues today as their churches are still present and operational
The Hopedale Museum began in 1970 and is located in the Moravian Mission House in Hopedale, Labrador. The Mission House was the building in which the minister and his family lived in which was adjacent to the Moravian Church. The Museum began with three rooms and has since grown to thirteen. The Museum’s collection consists of archaeology artifacts, which date back 1500 to 2000 years, and others relating to today’s Labrador Inuit as well as European medical supplies, furniture and utensils. The mission is the oldest wooden structure east of Quebec. Other structures include a church, storehouse, and small wooden huts in which the First Nations peoples of the area lived in. (www.delweb.com)
The Labrador Community and Cultural Association was a non profit organization aware of the need to provide training and opportunities for the citizens of Labrador. They to organized a program that would provide, encourage and assist in vocational development of basic trades, arts, crafts, music, drama, physical culture and all other educational, recreational and cultural activities in Labrador.
James Adam Barrowman (1936-1991), physician and professor, was born 4 June 1936 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He attended early schooling at George Watson’s Boys’ College in Edinburgh from 1948 to 1954. That same year he enrolled in Edinburgh University where he went on to complete a BSc, (Hons Physiology) and the degrees of MB and ChB in 1961. In 1964, he was made a member of the Royal College of Physicians and two years later, earned a PhD from London University in 1966. Following this appointment, he was made a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada) in 1977 for Gastroenterology and in 1979 for Internal Medicine. In 1980, he also was made a Fellow of the American College of Physicians by direct election and in 1981 he also became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) by
direct election.
Over the years, Dr. Barrowman held a variety of positions and appointments. From 1961 to 1962, he held a twelve-month pre-registration service and was House Physician to Professor John Strong, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh and House Surgeon to Sir John Bruce at the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. In 1962, he was appointed as a six-month senior house officer in gastroenterological medicine with Drs. Card and W. Sircus at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. From 1963 to 1966, Dr. Barrowman was Junior Lecturer and then Lecturer in the Department of Physiology at the London Hospital Medical College. Between 1967 and 1968, he was the Wellcome Travelling Research Fellow in University of Lund, Sweden, as part of the Department of Physiological Chemistry. Following this, he accepted a position as Senior Lecturer in Physiology at the London Hospital Medical College where he remained until 1975, having held the positions of Medical Registrar, Senior Lecturer in Medicine, and numerous other responsibilities in gastroenterology at the London Hospital.
In 1975, Dr. Barrowman made the trip to Newfoundland when he accepted the post of Associate Professor of Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Physiology at the new medical school at Memorial University in St. John’s. He became a full professor in 1979 and was appointed Assistant Dean, Research and Graduate Studies (Medicine) at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was also Director of the Residency Training Programme in Gastroenterology in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial.
Outside of his teaching, Dr. Barrowman was involved in other aspects of professional medicine. These included holding memberships in Professional Societies such as the British Society of Gastroenterology, the Physiological Society, the Medical Research Society, the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, the Canadian Physiological Society, the American Gastroenterological Association, the American Pancreatic Association, the International Society of Lymphology, the American College of Physicians, the Canadian Liver Club, the Splanchic Circulation Group, the American Physiological Society, the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology, the America Oil Chemists’ Society and the Advisory Committee of the Canadian Ileitis/Colitis foundation.
James and his wife Gwynedd (nee Price) had four children. Dr. Barrowman died on 22 September 1991.