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Interview by Doris Saunders with Alice and Thorwald Perrault. About festival days, church services, Children's Days, Love Feast Service, Christmas Eve candle service, Moravian customs, games, clothing, Married People's Festival Day, church elders, Christmas customs, genealogy, Old People's Day Festival, Good Friday, village picnics, seal hunting, travel, hunting trips, animals hunted, and death.

Interview by Gordon Rendell for the CBC Labrador History Series with Alice Perrault. About genealogy, schooling, teaching conditions, population, living conditions, drinking water, wood season, clothing, cooking, sailing ships, traveling, mail service, communication, newspapers, mailboats, family gatherings, fishermen, Okak hospital, dentist, settlement, working conditions, provisions, population growth, books, church, transportation, Hudson's Bay Company, hunting, entertainment, Christmas, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and Makkovik.

Interview by Doris Saunders with Alice Perrault, About genealogy, the trip to England, death, funerals, schooling, occupations, teaching in Makkovik, boarding school, medical work, the flu epidemic, doctors, Eskimo language, chores, midwives, hospital, and mail runs.

Interview by Doris Saunders with Alice Perrault. About occupation, Makkovik, holidays, accidents, remedies, and cooking.

Collection consists of a history of Happy Valley, written by Alice Perrault; information on the ‘Moravian Missions’; a handwritten letter by Walter Perrett mentioning Alice Perrett’s christening; a copy of THE MORAVIAN MESSENGER Vol. XLII, No. 5, a handwritten list of phone numbers, a handwritten letter written by Rev. Perrett, and a handwritten tribute to Helen Perrett about her life as a missionary.

Fonds consists of a history of Happy Valley, written by Alice Perrault; information on the ‘Moravian Missions’; a handwritten letter by Walter Perrett mentioning Alice Perrett’s christening; a copy of THE MORAVIAN MESSENGER Vol. XLII, No. 5, a handwritten letter written by Rev. Perrett, and a handwritten tribute to Helen Perrett about her life as a missionary.

Fonds consists of baptismal records (1944-1954); marriage records (1944-1951, 1953, 1954); and death records (1944-1952, 1954). The fonds also includes some confirmation cards (1951-61).

The fonds consists of the administrative and financial records of the church and includes the following material: Minutes of Meetings, 1917- 1931; Minute Book, 1931 - 1952-53; Minutes of the Congregation Meetings, 1954- 1984; Vestry Minutes, February 1960 - January 1977; Cash Book, 1931-1958; Record of Envelope Givings, 1963-1996; Accounts Book, 1966- 1996; Register of Services, January 1897- December 1921; Vestry Book, 1922-1952; and Visitor’s Book, 1980-1996.

The records have been organized into four series according to the form and function of the records: Series 1: Minutes of Vestry, 1917-1931; Series 2: Financial Records, 1931-1996; Series 3: Vestry Register, 1897-1952; Series 4: Visitor’s Book, 1980 - 1996.