I may have put these photos up before, but what the heck, here they are again. Came across them yesterday, some times things just appear were once they were not, Fran digs through old pictures and written text, she has a subtle way of just leaving things out “for no reason”.
Any way they brought back some fond memories of the early 1980’s, I’m sure there were not so fond memories but they get pushed aside.
Back those days we had very little in the way of material wealth, seemed a lot better time was had.
So back to the subject of the photos. These show a crew from CBC ‘A fifth Estate’. The interviewer is Lyndon McIntire, camera man [note the size of the beta cam], sound man and out of picture a producer, [CBC did things bigger those days] and of course the then President of the Labrador Inuit Association. The producer was Leo Ehrenberg [spelling], quite the wag he was.
McIntire came in to do a story on the health of Inuit and the delivery of health services. Much has changed in that area and much more needs to change, but we don’t get national media in any more to do in depth stories. I don’t think it a sign of everything is copasetic, just change in priorities and change in the politics.
The green building is still there, was the ‘government store’ now ‘BigLand’.
They are standing on the old earthen dam; after many wash a ways in spring time it was replaced by a rock and gravel dam with metal culverts, no more wash a ways. The little white structure at left of top picture is the old pump station that supplied the town water, not to all the houses mind you, not like today where every home has running water.
The long white object in two of the pictures is the boards of the old outdoor hockey rink; it has gone the way of the dodo.
The large high roofed building to the right in two pictures is the old RCMP duplex. It has gone replaced by a conglomerate of RCMP residences and storage buildings.
The beige building near the white building is still there having had many occupants over the years, at moment it housed part of the NG health department.
I’m sure the segment when aired may have had some affect on the delivery of health services to the area. I think the most poignant scenes would have been Fran taking the office ‘honey bucket’ out to the one of the many slop banks that were scattered through out the community those days. Every home has flushing toilets now, well at least the service is provided so there is no excuse not to have one.
I remember Lyndon was into running in his free time, and Leo was gung ho on catching a char. He had no luck until the day they were to leave. Due to a screw up in reservations a twin otter on floats was chartered to get them from here to Davis Inlet.
While waiting for the plane Leo had taken off down to the Northern Point to try his luck one last time; eventually the plane arrived at the dock but no Leo and no sign of him on the road. A Nain guy offered to run down to the point to get Leo back. Another thing different those days was the lack of vehicles. Only a few pickups in town and not one 4 wheeler.
Eventually Leo came into sight, in time he got to the dock and was visibly excited brandishing a nice size char to take with him.
Any way they brought back some fond memories of the early 1980’s, I’m sure there were not so fond memories but they get pushed aside.
Back those days we had very little in the way of material wealth, seemed a lot better time was had.
So back to the subject of the photos. These show a crew from CBC ‘A fifth Estate’. The interviewer is Lyndon McIntire, camera man [note the size of the beta cam], sound man and out of picture a producer, [CBC did things bigger those days] and of course the then President of the Labrador Inuit Association. The producer was Leo Ehrenberg [spelling], quite the wag he was.
McIntire came in to do a story on the health of Inuit and the delivery of health services. Much has changed in that area and much more needs to change, but we don’t get national media in any more to do in depth stories. I don’t think it a sign of everything is copasetic, just change in priorities and change in the politics.
The green building is still there, was the ‘government store’ now ‘BigLand’.
They are standing on the old earthen dam; after many wash a ways in spring time it was replaced by a rock and gravel dam with metal culverts, no more wash a ways. The little white structure at left of top picture is the old pump station that supplied the town water, not to all the houses mind you, not like today where every home has running water.
The long white object in two of the pictures is the boards of the old outdoor hockey rink; it has gone the way of the dodo.
The large high roofed building to the right in two pictures is the old RCMP duplex. It has gone replaced by a conglomerate of RCMP residences and storage buildings.
The beige building near the white building is still there having had many occupants over the years, at moment it housed part of the NG health department.
I’m sure the segment when aired may have had some affect on the delivery of health services to the area. I think the most poignant scenes would have been Fran taking the office ‘honey bucket’ out to the one of the many slop banks that were scattered through out the community those days. Every home has flushing toilets now, well at least the service is provided so there is no excuse not to have one.
I remember Lyndon was into running in his free time, and Leo was gung ho on catching a char. He had no luck until the day they were to leave. Due to a screw up in reservations a twin otter on floats was chartered to get them from here to Davis Inlet.
While waiting for the plane Leo had taken off down to the Northern Point to try his luck one last time; eventually the plane arrived at the dock but no Leo and no sign of him on the road. A Nain guy offered to run down to the point to get Leo back. Another thing different those days was the lack of vehicles. Only a few pickups in town and not one 4 wheeler.
Eventually Leo came into sight, in time he got to the dock and was visibly excited brandishing a nice size char to take with him.
4 comments:
thank you for the story. nice ending.
sometimes i wish we could get more stories from the local news out of northern labrador. goose area and western labrador get a bit of coverage now but about the only time we get anything from coastal or northern is the doom and gloom stories. mostly then it's a voice over.
Your right about the doom and gloom, occasional stories of the positive but too few.
CKOK does more general interest and the positive, but you do need the investigative stuff too and they are starting to do more of that.
I feel one day soon that CKOK will be available on the internet, feels it in my bones.
Natuashish is gung ho on getting a CKOK feed into their community, and they have several feeds from other fist nation’s radio stations in the south, but still want CKOK, I think that is great.
In the past a quarterly magazine that was put out by Okalakatiget Society was a great way to bring the regions closer. Kinatuinnamut ihngajuk [Ki] was widely distributed, it was the official magazine on Air Lab and copies were in most Goose Bay hotels in its day. There was a lot of positive feed back from many many people; Air Lab could not keep copies on the planes.
Even in this day of turmoil in the media industry I think something like Ki has a role to play.
if CKOK does become available on the internet will it only be in inuktitut or an english feed also?
couple of guys in goose a few years back ran an internet station. i remember a story on here and now about it.i never did get to hear it. seems like i could not meet the schedule times.the internet is becoming a great way to go. i listen to most of vocm on the internet.
It would be in both languages, Tuesdays is Inuttitut only usually.
I was following that web based radio for awhile, took a time to get up and running, not sure what happened to it.
As OK is already a broadcaster all they have to do is apply the technology.
I understand that VOCM is very popular in a certain office in Ottawa!
I get my chuckles out of the call-ins at times, but too much muddles the mind.
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