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I can remember the Harmony. She was the Moravian Mission supply ship.
We didn't live right in Hebron but up in Upatik. My father, my mother and my uncle's family always lived up in the bay. In the summers we moved outside to the fishing place, Rocky Harbour we called it. They didn't always go down to meet the boat because for one reason it was a long ways to go. We only had a row boat. It was a big boat. The only way was to sail or on calm days they got out the oars. There was no engines then only their own power. Sometimes my two aunts and my uncle went to meet the Harmony. The rest of us stayed home. Perhaps had to wait three or four days for them to come back.
After the Harmony was there a day she was unloaded, reloaded and left. Everybody left but us. There was my uncle, his wife, her two sisters, a cousin, brother Bill, sister Sarah and me. We stayed there for all that winter. In January a dogteam came from Nain. There was Mr. Perrett, Mr. Hettasch, young Hettasch's father, Amos Voisey, my uncle Richard Winters and some that I don't remember. They come to see which houses would be taken to Nain. That was after the big fire in Nain. In May, Martin Martin and quite a few others come down. They took down the stores first, piled them up to be shipped on the Harmony. The Harmony come from England with all kinds of supplies. We never wanted for anything. She come twice a year in the Spring and the Fall. She always brought enough. There was never anybody in want then not that we ever heard of anyway. Trade was carried on then by the Moravian mission. |
