Paradise Driver asked some pertinent questions about Nain, So for him and others interested here are some details.
Nain’s population is about 1300.
Local transport modes are: Winter; snowmobile mainly, if conditions permit four wheelers can be used.
Summer; around town normal vehicles, four wheelers [ATV], shanks pony.
Out of town speed boats, motor boats.
Transport into and out of Nain. All year round by air from Goose Bay. Air Labrador or Innu Mikun.
Winter ground is by snowmobile only. Summer is by boat from the south and the coastal communities.
Nain has a health care clinic staffed by about 4 to 5 nurses [RN] and assistance. Doctors rotate in from Goose Bay on a one week a month schedule as a rule. Any specialist or problems beyond a RN scope you have to go to Goose bay. Same for any non traditional health care, plus eye, dental. There is a once a year visit by an optometrist, but they are the pits.
The RCMP has a detachment of six on two year rotations.
Nain Volunteer Fire Brigade has a nice building housing winter and summer vehicles plus equipment. There are fire hydrants at regular intervals around the town. Hydrants are below ground in special chambers that are kept clear of snow by the local government workers.
Now getting to Happy Valley Goose Bay is another story. All year by road up from Quebec. Summer by road and ferry from Newfoundland [see above].
By air you have choice of Air Labrador and Provincial Airlines [see Innu Mikun]from Montreal or St.John’s. Air Canada from Halifax.
1 comment:
Fascinating.
If you get the chance, I would enjoy seeing some images of the hydrants and firefighting equipment.
Communications:
Radio & TV
Telephone.
I presume that you have a low power TV station and a low power FM station there and that they are probably serviced by a satellite link, as would be your phone system also. Or does the phone use underses cables?
Do you have cable TV? What method do you connect to the internet?
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