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Sidney Stewart Payne
Persona · 1978 -

Archbishop Payne was born June 6, 1932. He receive a Bachelor of Arts, MUN, 1958; Licentiate of Theology, Queen's College, 1957; Bachelor of Divinity, General Synod (Correspondence), 1965; and Doctor of Divinity, Honorary, King's College, Halifax. Deacon in 1957, he was ordained to priesthood in June, 1958, and served at Happy Valley, 1957-1965; Bay Roberts, 1965-1970; and St. Anthony, 1970-1978. He was consecrated as the Second Bishop of the Diocese of Western Newfoundland, June 23, 1978, and installed as Lord Bishop of Western Newfoundland, Oct. 29, 1978. Bishop Payne was elected Metropolitan of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada on Nov. 3, 1990, and installed on Dec. 7, 1990.

Frank Speck
Persona · 1914

Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 8, 1881 Frank Gouldsmith Speck spent the first seven years of his life in the city, a fragile and sickly child. As was common at the time, Speck's parents felt that a rural environment would be better for their son's health, and in 1888 placed him in the care of family friend Fidelia Fielding, living in Mohegan, CT. Fielding was a widow, a Native American, and the last speaker of her tribal language in New England. While with Fielding the seeds for many of Speck's professional interests were laid as she tutored him in nature, natural history, English literature, and Mohegan language and literature. At age fourteen Speck returned to his family, now living in Hackensack, NJ.

Speck entered Columbia University at the turn of the century, receiving his A.B. (Bachelor of Arts) 2 in 1904 and started his graduate work under Franz Boas, receiving his M.A. from Columbia a year later. Speck received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1908 and remained in Philadelphia for the rest of his career.

It was not long after arriving in Philadelphia that Speck began his study of the Algonkians of the Eastern Woodlands. Speck went on to study the Algonkians of Delaware, the tribes of tidewater Virginia, the Cherokee in the Southeast, and the Iroquois, especially their ceremonialism. Speck's work among the Eastern tribes was indicative of his efforts to record dying languages and cultures. Speck studied a tribe's language, technology, decorative art, myths and tales, religious belief, ceremonialism, social organization, music, and hunting territories. Speck also chose to focus on a tribe's link to nature, with ethnobiology, material culture, and uses of the environment playing major themes in his work.

Another integral part of Speck's fieldwork was collecting material culture. His love for collecting artifacts in the field was motivated by the special problems in which he became interested from time to time. Occasionally, Speck's interest in arts and crafts drew him within the borders of archeology. He would also have replicas made by Indians of objects no longer in daily use.

What made Speck successful in his research was the method he used in the field. Speck was a "bedside ethnologist," staying with the people all day, eating with them, learning their language, and sleeping in the village. This sense of ease and intimate form of fieldwork allowed Speck to gain the trust of the tribes, facilitating his collection of data.

In his later years Speck was battling a failing heart and kidney disease, though this did not stop him from going into the field. Speck died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on February 6 at the age of 68.

Michael MacKenzie
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Michael MacKenzie, the author of "Reflections of Yesteryear", "It Happened Yesterday", and " Remember the Times" was a teacher in the Corner Brook area during the 1980's and was a part-time journalist. He was involved in politics in the 1960's.

Margaret Baikie
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Margaret (Campbell) Baikie (May 6, 1844-1940), daughter of Daniel and Lydia Campbell, was born Mulligan, Labrador. In 1917, when she was 73 years old, Margaret Baikie wrote about her memories of life in Labrador. She married Thomas Baikie and had eight children.

Thomas L. Blake
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Thomas L. Blake (March 22, 1843-October 2, 1935) was born in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador to Lydia (Brooks) and William Blake Jr. He kept a diary detailing life and social conditions in Labrador from 1883-1890. Thomas had never been to school and was taught to read and write by his mother who had been taught by her father, Ambrose Brooks. Thomas spent time in Nova Scotia where he attended day school. Later he taught night school in Labrador at Lester's Point. Throughout his life Thomas Blake was a trapper and a fisherman and had four wives.

George Budgell
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George Budgell (1887-1956) was born in Fogo, Nfld. He worked with the Husdon's Bay Company in Labrador for 35 years, of that time he spent three years in Davis Inlet, one year in North West River, and the remainder in Rigolet. He was the manager of a fur trading post in Rigolet during that time. He married Phyllis Painter and had six children.

Clarice Hopkins
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Clarice May (Burdett) Hopkins (May 24, 1916- ) is one of eight children born to Joshua and Elizabeth Ann (Coombs) Hopkins. She was born in Sandy Hills, married Llewellyn Hopkins and had four children. In 1955, she became involved in the 1st Cartwright Company of Girl Guides and later became District Commissioner.

Rev. Walter Whatley Perett
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Rev. Walter Whatley Perrett (1869-1950) was a British Moravian Missionary on the coast of Labrador. Rev. Perrett first came to Labrador in 1892 and was stationed at Okak. Rev. Perrett did a great deal of work translating Eskimo/English language text, and also taught at the local school when needed. Walter Perrett and his wife, Helen (Ridgeway), had four daughters, Alice, Mabel, Ethel and Edna.

Henry Gordon
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Rev. Henry Gordon (1887 – 1971) was born in England and educated at Keble College in Oxford. He was ordained a Church of England priest in 1911, and volunteered to go to Labrador as a missionary four years later. While in Labrador, Rev. Gordon’s parish stretched some 320-km from southern Batteau to Cape Harrison. Rev. Gordon stationed himself in Cartwright where he kept a journal in which he recorded details concerning the life and hardships of the people he served. His diary, covering the years 1915 to 1925, was published by the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador under the title, ‘The Labrador Parson’. While in Labrador Rev. Gordon recognized the need for a public boarding school for the children, and through fundraising, established the Labrador Public School in 1920 at Muddy Bay.

Alice Perrault
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Alice (Perrett) Perrault (1896-1990) was born in Makkovik, Labrador, to Rev. Walter and Helen Perrett. The daughter of a Moravian missionary, Alice Perrett was trained as a teacher in England and taught in several communities on the Labrador coast before her marriage to Thorwald Perrault. In 1942 Alice moved to Refugee Cove (later Happy Valley) with her family to work on construction of the Goose Bay Air Force Base. In 1943 Alice Perrault started the first school in Happy Valley in the kitchen of her home and was instrumental in securing more permanent facilities for the school in 1946. She was awarded the Order of Canada on June 25, 1984, for a lifetime of service to her community.