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\"https:\/\/cdn-icons-png.flaticon.com\/512\/149\/149071.png\";\r\n\r\n \/\/ ======================= DATA =======================\r\n\r\n \/\/ ======================= DATA WITH LONG DESCRIPTIONS =======================\r\n const people2017 = [{\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/yvonne jones.jpeg\",\r\n name: \"Yvonne Rumbolt Jones \",\r\n desc: \"Yvonne Rumbolt-Jones is a Canadian politician in Newfoundland and Labrador, who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 2013 to 2025. With a rich background rooted in her Indigenous heritage, she has built a career representing Indigenous rights, women\u2019s leadership, and rural community development. Through her work in politics, research, philanthropy, and journalism Yvonne has become a beacon for empowerment and cultural preservation in Northern communities.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Barry Andersen.webp\",\r\n name: \"Barry Andersen\",\r\n desc: \"Barry is known professionally for his work as a Fishery Guardian and now as a Special Constable with the RCMP. However, his invaluable contributions to his community do not end there. Barry is an avid volunteer fulfilling many roles. He is the volunteer fire department chief, head of his local search and rescue team and leads the local Canadian Junior Rangers Program. Barry has helped countless people though his search and rescue missions and has saved many homes through his work in fire prevention. He consistently supports his community by helping others, whether that means loaning chimney cleaning equipment or actually doing the cleaning himself. He also has had a significant positive impact on youth through his work with the Rangers. He has also helped other communities with their search and rescue efforts and in his professional role as a Special Constable. Barry is a pillar of the Makkovik community not just for his tireless work, but for his positive regard and service to others as well\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Rita Andersen.webp\",\r\n name: \"Rita Andersen\",\r\n desc: \"Rita Andersen was born in 1950 and is a wellrespected and known Inuk Elder. She was the longest serving employee of the Labrador Inuit Association\/ Nunatsiavut Government and retired from the position of Interpreter\/Translator Coordinator. Ms. Andersen had a nearly forty-year career working tirelessly in preserving, protecting and enhancing Labrador Inuktitut. Ms. Andersen is very passionate about the need to ensure that the Inuktitut language survives and flourishes. She has taken time to teach the language to as many people as possible, including training all new interpreter\/translators hired by the Nunatsiavut Government. The Inuit culture is very communal, and people work together effectively as a group; however, there are always those individuals whose talents and contributions are deemed remarkable, and Rita Andersen is one of those people.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Toby Andersen\",\r\n desc: \"Toby was born in 1947. He was a commercial fisherman for twenty-eight years and was owner\/operator of a longliner. Toby served as mayor of Makkovik for four years and a member of the Combined Councils of Labrador. Toby was chair of the Labrador Resources Advisory Council for three years. In 1984, Toby was retained by the Labrador Inuit Association during the winter months as a negotiator with the Labrador Inuit Land Claims negotiation team. In 1989, he was offered the full-time position as Director of Land Claims\/Chief Negotiator for the Labrador Inuit Land Claim negotiation. Toby held that position until the land claim was ratified and came into effect in December 2005. He was then appointed by the First Minister of the Nunatsiavut Government as Deputy Minister of Nunatsiavut Affairs and Director of Implementation of the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement and currently holds that position.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Angela Andrew.webp\",\r\n name: \"Angela Andrew\",\r\n desc: \"Angela Andrew is seventy years of age and from the community of Sheshatshiu. Angela is an amazing artist who has been working for many years to continue the tradition of making Innu tea dolls in the traditional way. There are few people that know how to make these and Angela has continued to make dolls and to teach anyone who wants to learn the skill. She has been making tea dolls for over forty years and has been able to help support her family by selling these. She has made an outstanding contribution by sharing the skill and mentoring young Innu artists that wanted to learn. She is a respected Innu elder and is a true role model to the community and continues to camp and share and practise her culture.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gary Baikie .webp\",\r\n name: \"Gary Baikie \",\r\n desc: \"Gary was born in North West River and moved to Nain with his family at a young age. He has been an ambassador for Nunatsiavut and Labrador since the 1980s when he began his career advocating for Inuit culture and rights. In the early years of his career as Director of Torng\u00e2sok for the Labrador Inuit Association, Gary implemented the first and only Inuktitut interpreter\/translator program in Labrador; was instrumental in the revitalization of drum dancing and throat singing; and introduced the language nest program, which exposes infants and toddlers to the Inuktitut language, before becoming a co-chief land claim negotiator for Nunatsiavut. Gary also represented Labrador Inuit at the Inuit Circumpolar Council as a voting member. In 1996, Gary supervised the Taipsumani Archaeological Project in Hebron, which helped to repatriate the 113 skeletal remains back to Sallikuluk (Rose Island), and was present in 2013 when remains of eleven more skeletal bodies were returned. In 2005, once the Nunatsiavut land claim was signed, Gary became the first finance minister for Nunatsiavut. He coordinated the efforts for the compensation of the Inuit who were forced to relocate from Hebron and Nutak in 1957 and 1959, and a formal apology from both governments was issued in 2006. Since 2007, Gary has worked for the Torngat Mountains National Park (TMNP) and is now the superintendent. The TMNP is the first and only National Park in Canada that is owned and operated entirely by Inuit. Gary is also the former mayor of Nain, a former Ulapitsaijet trustee, a former Provincial Historic Commemoration Program board member, a former board member of the Labrador School Board and NL English School District, a mentor for Inuit youth, and played an active role in keeping the kANGIDLUASUk student program alive in the Torngat Park.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Katherine Baikie-Pottle.webp\",\r\n name: \"Katherine Baikie-Pottle\",\r\n desc: \"Katherine is originally from North West River, Labrador. She also moved to Labrador City for nearly twenty years and now resides back in North West River. Katherine loves performing, so while living in Labrador City, she was instrumental in the establishment of the Arts and Culture Centre in Labrador West. She was also the co-founder of the Carol Players drama group in Labrador City. She is 7 always around to help with the annual North West River Beach Festival. She is there, involved with judging the beach pageant and getting donations in order for the auctions. Volunteering is just one of the things she does around this community; she also was on the town council for a number of years, and served as the deputy mayor of North West River. Also, she worked in many provincial and federal government jobs such as NLOWE and ACOA. On top of all of this, she worked full-time and she is a loving wife, mother of three, and grandmother of eight.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Deborah Barney.webp\",\r\n name: \"Deborah Barney\",\r\n desc: \"Deborah Barney in the Labrador Straits has a strong history of community involvement and volunteerism. Deborah\u2019s first employment was with International Grenfell Association in St. Anthony, Nfld., as a nursing assistant, and for the past thirtyfour years she has been employed as the executive director for the Labrador South Home Care Inc. Deborah has always been an avid advocate for the area; this has been and continues to be evident through her various volunteer positions. Over the years she filled roles as a councillor, Deputy Mayor and Mayor of her municipality, a director on many boards such as the Labrador Community College Board, Nursing Access Screening Process Committee, LabradorGrenfell Health Authority Local and Regional Assessment Placement Team, Liberal District Association, Labrador Straits Seniors Complex Board, Labrador Straits Waste Disposal Committee, NL Homemaker and Homemaker Service Association, Labrador Straits Development Corporation, Southern Labrador Development Association, Northern Regional Wellness Coalition, Labrador South Community Advisory Committee and the Municipal Assessment Agency. In 2014, Deborah was recognized for her devoted community and regional involvement as she was a recipient for the Wayne Earle Community Service Award.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jacinda Beals.webp\",\r\n name: \"Jacinda Beals\",\r\n desc: \"Jacinda is a well-known singer\/songwriter who released her first album in 2003. Since then, her fivemember Jacinda Beals Band has been performing throughout the province, country and in Dublin, Ireland. Her band released their third album last year. Many of her lyrics are inspired by her love of Labrador. 8 Jacinda is also a social activist who never tires from the task of rallying people around the causes that are very dear to her, such as the Labrador Land Protectors. She has also worked in the shelter for abused women in Happy Valley-Goose Bay for many years. She denounces violence against women and has touched many survivors of violence with her understanding and empathy. Jacinda was instrumental in the fight for recognition and equal rights for lesbians, bisexual, gays and transgender. She has been one of the main organizers of Pride activities in Goose Bay for years. As an artist she is an outstanding ambassador for Labrador Culture and Pride. She stands behind her convictions and supports all the people affected by Muskrat Falls.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tim Borlase.webp\",\r\n name: \"Tim Borlase\",\r\n desc: \"Tim Borlase has distinguished himself in the Labrador community as a driving force for the arts and education. He has been actively involved in promoting and sustaining the arts and culture of Labrador for more than thirty years. He has modified, adopted and supplemented educational programs in all areas of curriculum to accommodate Aboriginal peoples in isolated communities in Labrador. Mr. Borlase is a co-founder and organizer of the Labrador Creative Arts Festival, an event which has brought students from various Labrador communities together to present their original scripts on issues of concern. Furthermore, he has been instrumental in the development and delivery of the Melville Music Festival, the Heritage Fair, the North Coast Sports Meet, and the High School Drama Festival. He is the founder of the Mokami Players, an adult theatre group in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. He oversaw the Happy Valley-Goose Bay Arts Council, a volunteer group which brings in visiting artists. He is also a recipient of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Order of Canada.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jordan Brown .webp\",\r\n name: \"Jordan Brown \",\r\n desc: \"Jordan took on the task of promoting the Labrador Flag on its fortieth anniversary to make sure it took its rightful place on Labrador\u2019s borders. After three years of letter-writing, media interactions and on-the-ground protest, it paid off. 9 Jordan would never admit to how much work he put into this and brushes off that he played a significant role. However, anyone involved would say otherwise. Jordan's lobbying and educating others of Labrador\u2019s most recognized symbol motivated and inspired others. The Labrador Flag now flies on the two border crossings, St. Anthony Town Hall and St. John's City Hall permanently. Jordan\u2019s work has made Labradorians step up and now make a more conscious effort to show off their Labrador pride in multiple social mediums. Jordan's work is far from over, he will continue to make sure the flag is protected and respected. Jordan has also been pivotal in revitalizing the Height of Land Branch of the Labrador Heritage Society and Gateway Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Margaret Buckle.webp\",\r\n name: \"Margaret Buckle\",\r\n desc: \"Margaret Buckle is a founding member of the Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation and has continued to sit as a board member for forty years. Margaret represents the Labrador Straits Museum on the LSHDC board. Over the past forty years, the LSHDC has played a key role in ensuring local participation in heritage tourism in the Labrador Straits. The board members of the LSHDC, representing municipalities and community groups in the region, have worked to develop heritage tourism initiatives with local needs in mind. Their activities include: hosting the Labrador Straits Studies Conference in 1988, establishing a Heritage Regions Project, building heritage hiking trails, co-hosting the Viking Millennium international symposium, establishing the Labrador Coastal Drive marketing initiative, and operating the Gateway to Labrador Visitor Centre in L\u2019Anse-au-Clair. Since the mid1990s, the LSHDC has had a unique partnership with Provincial Historic Sites Division to operate Point Amour Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site. They have partnered with many local groups and individuals to deliver tourism and cultural initiatives for forty years, and will continue to play a vital role in the social, cultural and economic well-being of the Labrador Straits.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Julie Bull.webp\",\r\n name: \"Julie Bull\",\r\n desc: \"Julie Bull is a leader, innovator, and influencer originally from Happy ValleyGoose Bay and a member of NunatuKavut with more than fifteen years of experience in community-based research with Indigenous communities. Her academic background is interdisciplinary (Philosophy, Psychology, Health Policy Research, Bioethics) with a focus on research ethics and methods for 10 research involving Indigenous People. Julie is a Research Methods Specialist at Canada\u2019s largest mental health hospital (the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto) and she teaches in the Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Toronto and in the School of Public Health and Social Policy at the University of Victoria. Julie works with Indigenous communities, researchers, and administrators to implement wise practices in Indigenous research and is an invited lecturer and speaker at many events throughout Canada and around the world. Among Julie\u2019s many awards and accolades are the CIHR Vanier Graduate Scholarship, the Scientific Director\u2019s Award of Excellence from the CIHR-Institute of Aboriginal Peoples\u2019 Health, the National Aboriginal Role Model Award from the National Aboriginal Health Organization, and the Jens Peder Hanson Memorial Fellowship Award. Julie and the team she works with in Labrador received the MUN President\u2019s Award of Excellence for Community Engagement in 2015 for their work with NunatuKavut examining research ethics and governance in complex communities. Julie is active in both academic and grassroots initiatives such as a committee member for education and outreach with the Panel on Responsible Conduct of Research and a member of the NunatuKavut Community Council Research Review Committee.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Margaret Burden.webp\",\r\n name: \"Margaret Burden\",\r\n desc: \"Margaret Burden was born in 1938 in Twillingate and moved to Port Hope Simpson to teach in the early 1950s. She married a fisherman and raised eight children. During the winter, Ms. Burden would teach, and during the summer, she would fish with her husband. She has been an educator, leader, volunteer, councillor, Sunday school teacher, municipal politician and businesswoman with tons of energy and vision. Ms. Burden owns and operates two businesses and has served as the town\u2019s mayor for twenty years. She has been a recreation coordinator for the community and the Labrador Winter Games coordinator for many years. She still never misses a dog team race. Young athletes she coached as teenagers are now in their fifties and still run, ski and snowshoe. Ms. Burden was instrumental in getting the Moulder of Dreams pottery shop off the ground. She also started a community 11 garden from the waste of the hydro plant. Ms. Burden has helped develop athletes, potters and gardeners by encouraging individuals to be their very best\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harriet Burdett-Moulton.webp\",\r\n name: \"Harriet Burdett-Moulton\",\r\n desc: \"Harriet is formerly from Cartwright and is an award-winning architect. She was the second female graduate architect from Nova Scotia Technical University in a once completely male-dominated field of work. She has designed and built over 150 structures. These are unique in design as she has incorporated her culture and heritage into her buildings. She has recently been recognized as a world-class designer. Harriet Burdett-Moulton, NWTAA, FRAIC, Architect, Stantec Architecture, has a broad range of professional experience as a design architect. Her expertise comes from experience dealing with culturally diverse groups and an assortment of building types. She has been involved in the design of educational facilities, recreational facilities, health care facilities, places of worship and feasibility studies. Harriet\u2019s work includes major additions, and renovations as well as new construction. In addition to her passion for welldesigned culturally significant buildings, Harriet is a well-respected jeweller and has experience and education in community international development. Her unique perspective inspired her to create some of Northern Canada\u2019s most innovative buildings, using an approach that involves and educates clients in the design process. Her extensive portfolio includes Piqqusilirivvik, an Inuit Cultural Learning Facility in Clyde River on Baffin Island, and St. Jude\u2019s Cathedral in Iqaluit, for which she led the redesign after the original building burned down in 2005. Her most elaborate project was the planning of the new Innu town of Natuashish, Labrador, which involved an extensive seven-year consultation process whose scope reached beyond public engagement, placing the importance on community decision-making.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harrison Campbell.webp\",\r\n name: \"Harrison Campbell\",\r\n desc: \"Harrison Campbell is a NunatuKavut member from Pinsent\u2019s Arm. He has spent his entire life since childhood making a living from the fishery industry. Harrison has fished a variety of species each summer ranging from crab, cod, whelk, herring, sea urchins, and the list continues. He has taught this traditional way of life to many other fishermen, including his 12 two sons, and most recently, he spent this summer on the water teaching his ten-year-old grandson all about the whelk fishery. Harrison\u2019s main passion is definitely the fishery; however, he also enjoys spending time on the land hunting and trapping, a tradition he has also passed on to other family members and friends. Harrison actively participates in and volunteers with various community organizations on the south coast of Labrador trying to keep the small communities alive with culture, traditions, a place where the younger generation can settle down and make a living instead of having to move away. He currently holds a seat on the Labrador Fishermen\u2019s Union Shrimp Company Board of Directors, which he has been a member of for thirty years. Also most recently, he has joined the NunatuKavut Governing Council as an elder representative. For the past many summers, Harrison has been catching salmon and codfish under the direction of NunatuKavut for their elder population who are unable to get out on the water personally. Harrison is a true Labradorian with a love for the sea and the land. He has a heart of gold, wanting to help out anywhere and wherever he can.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sandy Campbell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Sandy Campbell \",\r\n desc: \"Sandy Campbell was born in 1938 in Campbell\u2019s Cove to Lenora and Alex Campbell. He relocated to Charlottetown in 1953, where he married Laverne (House) Campbell. Sandy grew up in the fishing boat with his dad, and upon his father\u2019s passing, became skipper of his crew at twenty-one years old. Sandy always dreamed of owning his own business, and in 1966, he opened a small grocery store in Triangle. In 1979, Sandy went on to build the first hotel in his hometown in Charlottetown. Despite the challenges of working a full-time job and running his own business, he still found time to volunteer. Sandy has served with the Canadian Rangers, the Health Liaison Committee, the Grenfell Regional Health Services, and over the years he served on the Fisherman\u2019s Committee, Local Service District and the Community Town Council. Sandy was a strong advocate for the construction of the Charlottetown Clinic and the introduction of Newfoundland lobsters to St. Michael\u2019s Bay. Sandy has been recognized for his service: a twenty-year achievement award for the Charlottetown Inn, a Charlottetown certification of recognition for volunteer services, and a certificate of contribution for years of service to 13 Grenfell Regional Health Services Board of Directors. Some of Sandy\u2019s greatest loves are for his culture and history and the land he grew up and lived on. He is known as an avid storyteller and a holder of cultural knowledge for the south coast of Labrador, especially around genealogy. He always loved to share this knowledge and skills with the younger generations and has volunteered to do this on many occasions with traditional skills and knowledge exchange workshops.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Noreen Careen .webp\",\r\n name: \"Noreen Careen \",\r\n desc: \"Having an undergraduate degree in women\u2019s studies, Noreen Careen was Executive Director of the Labrador West Status of Women\u2019s Council for more than twenty years. She served in a variety of roles with the Hope Haven\u2019s Women\u2019s Shelter for over twenty years and was involved with many other initiatives, from family resource centres to the Labrador West Housing and Homelessness Coalition and the Newfoundland and Labrador Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse through SeniorsNL. Noreen has served on many community-based organizations: co-chair with Hope Haven Women\u2019s Shelter; chair of Labrador West Regional Wellness Coalition Mental Health Committee; Labrador West Community Policing; Traumatic Events Defusing and Debriefing Committee; chair of Labrador West Child Care Steering Committee (opened child care centre); co-chair Labrador West Housing and Homelessness Coalition; Regional Cervical Screening Education and Recruitment Committee; co-chair Violence Prevention Labrador Coalition; chair of First Steps Family Resource Centre; Mothers against Drunk Drivers; 2nd-vice-chair of Labrador West Twin Cities 50+ Group. Provincial involvement: NL Seniors Resource Centre director and peer support advocate; Canadian Mental Health Association-NL; NL Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse and Advisory Committee; NL Food Security Network; Child Death Review Committee; co-chair National Action Committee for the Advancement of Women; NL Housing and Homelessness Network (director); Noreen has been also a Victim Services Assistant with the Dept. of Justice for the Labrador West area for fourteen years, working to support victims of crime. She has been actively involved with the Healthy Aging Strategy, the Violence Prevention Initative Strategy and the Poverty Reduction Strategy.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jackie Compton-Hobbs.webp\",\r\n name: \"Jackie Compton-Hobbs\",\r\n desc: \"Jackie Compton-Hobbs has worked for the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador with the Department of Justice for fifteen years. She began her career as a correctional officer at the Labrador Correctional Centre and then with Adult Probation. In both of these roles, Mrs. Compton-Hobbs has continuously shown her compassion towards those who find themselves in conflict with the law. She has gone above and beyond to assist in securing housing, employment and to ensure that each person she meets is treated with respect. Mrs. ComptonHobbs is an asset to the community\u2019s justice initiatives. She has worked with and built strong relationships with the Indigenous communities of Labrador and continues to provide culturally relevant and appropriate services within the scope of justice. Mrs. Compton-Hobbs commitment to the people she works with has been exemplified by her belief in second chances and that everyone deserves to be successful. As well, Mrs. Compton-Hobbs has been a member of Happy Valley-Goose Bay Town Council since 2013. In her role as councillor, she again demonstrates her commitment to representing the people of Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Valerie Courtois.webp\",\r\n name: \"Val\u00e9rie Courtois\",\r\n desc: \"Val\u00e9rie Courtois is a professional forester who specializes in Aboriginal issues, forest ecology and ecosystem-based management and planning. She is a member of the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, located on the shore of Peikuakami, or Lac-StLean. She completed her undergraduate studies in Forestry Sciences at the Universit\u00e9 de Moncton in 2002. Upon graduating, Val\u00e9rie became the forestry advisor for the Assembly of First Nations of Qu\u00e9bec and Labrador in Wendake, QC. Hungry for more on-the-ground experience, Val\u00e9rie moved to Labrador in 2003 to become the forestry planner for the Innu Nation, building immense capacity. She then became the environmental planner, where she was responsible for managing all environmental programs for the Innu Nation, including the Innu Nation Environmental Guardians Program. In 2009, Val\u00e9rie started working as a consultant in Aboriginal forestry, including certification and spatial planning. 15 In 2010, she became the Senior Advisor on Aboriginal Affairs for the Canadian Boreal Initiative. Since 2013, Val\u00e9rie has been working as the Director of the Aboriginal Leadership Initiative of the International Boreal Conservation Campaign. In addition to her formal work in conservation and planning, Val\u00e9rie is an avid photographer and has had numerous images published. In 2007, she was awarded the James M. Kitz award from the Canadian Institute of Forestry for her early-career contributions to the profession of forestry. Valerie has contributed to the capacity and interconnections between Indigenous groups in Labrador and Quebec and is now spreading capacity through the Aboriginal Leadership Initiative and making great strides in growing Aboriginal Guardians across Canada.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jean Crane.webp\",\r\n name: \"Jean Crane\",\r\n desc: \"Jean Crane was born on March 12, 1929, as a Blake and later married John W. Crane of PEI. She had seven children, fifteen grandchildren, and nineteen great-grandchildren. Jean went to Yale School, the Grenfell Mission boarding school. She is number twelve of thirteen children, the only one to go through high school. The others got to about grade six, and then went trapping or working. Jean is an artist and a holder of traditional medicine knowledge. She paints mostly oil on canvas, knits, hooks mats, plays the drum, and camps at the cabin and in tent. Jean learned earth medicine from her mother and is a well-respected elder in the community. She also played a major role in developing the Libra House where she worked as the administrator for several years. She was a member of the Board of Regents for Memorial University. She plays an active role in her church as UCW member.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sheila Downer .webp\",\r\n name: \"Sheila Downer \",\r\n desc: \"Sheila is a very strong advocate for the development of rural communities. She is originally from Central Newfoundland and moved to Labrador in 1984. She has since adopted an extremely strong allegiance to Labrador, its issues, its people and its potential. Sheila served as the Managing Director of SmartLabrador Inc. for many years and has worked in many facets of community development. She has served as a catalyst for the development of information technology in Labrador and has led the planning and management of several major IT projects for Labrador communities. Her work in these communities has provided a strong background in understanding and 16 addressing challenges of regional development and has supported her experience in providing project partnership, regional network development and ICT services internationally. Sheila is currently Memorial University\u2019s Northern Liaison with the Office of Public Engagement and the Labrador Institute, as well as the Vice President of Finance, Development and Engagement with the UArctic. She has been recognized as one of Atlantic Canada\u2019s Top 50 CEOs, has served as a member of the Hemispheric Advisory Board for the Institute of Connecting the Americas (International Development Research Centre) and is the current Chair of Memorial University\u2019s Harris Centre Advisory Board.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Oswald Dyson.webp\",\r\n name: \"Oswald Dyson\",\r\n desc: \"Known to family and friends as Ozzie or Oz, Oswald Dyson was born the third eldest in a family of twelve to Esau and Violet Dyson of Spotted Island, Labrador. At the tender age of seven, Ozzie left his beloved family and Spotted Island to attend Lockwood residential school in Cartwright, Labrador. He returned home whenever a teacher was available, and graduated high school from Harriot Curtis Collegiate, St. Anthony. In 1973, Ozzie became employed with CFLCo in the new town of Churchill Falls as a fireman and in 1976, he started as a hydro systems operator apprentice. As the years progressed, he worked his way up to plant supervisor. Over the following four decades, Ozzie, his wife Rose, their sons Christopher, Joe, and Mike, and later, granddaughter Felicity called this little town in central Labrador home. Many of the young boys who grew up in Churchill Falls have Coach Ozzie to thank for passing on his outstanding hockey skills. In 1985, Ozzie, along with nine other men became the founding members of a patrol group of the Canadian Rangers\u2014the eyes and ears of the military in Canada\u2019s north. In the early nineties, Ozzie became patrol leader of the Churchill Falls Rangers and in this position led many survival expeditions with the Canadian, American, Australian, and British militaries. In 1992, Lt. 17 Dyson was the recipient of a commemorative medal for the 125th anniversary of Confederation of Canada in recognition of significant contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada. He continued to carry out this invaluable service up until his retirement in 2012.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan Felsberg.webp\",\r\n name: \"Susan Felsberg\",\r\n desc: \"Susan arrived in Happy Valley from England to work as a nurse in the region. In addition to her many years in helping with medicine in the community, she went on to create a homestead in Mud Lake where she raised her family. Susan spent many years volunteering on many boards, including Them Days as chair, and most recently on the midwifery board for Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a historian who is very well-versed in Labrador\u2019s history and culture, and a strong supporter of the region. Susan is very active in her church in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and plays piano there for funerals, weddings and Sunday services. In 2015, she was presented the Isaac Rich award for her volunteer contributions to Them Days.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Marjorie Flowers.webp\",\r\n name: \"Marjorie Flowers\",\r\n desc: \"Marjorie Flowers was the youngest of nine children born to Bill and Mary Andersen of Makkovik, and she later relocated to Hopedale in 1996. Throughout the years, Marjorie has worked as a licensed practical nurse, and as quality control and assistant manager for Torngat Fish Producers Coop. Marjorie owned and managed her own business, performed duties as a lay pastor, worked as a dental assistant, a personal care attendant, and as Team Leader for Nunatsiavut Department of Health and Social Development for nineteen-and-a-half years. Marjorie served as councillor for a total of six years and one term as Mayor of Hopedale. In 2015, she was elected as AngajukK\u00e2k for Hopedale Inuit Community Government. Marjorie has a history of being an active community member. She has served as a provincial chairperson for the Board of Moravian Church in NL, the first 18 female chairperson to be elected in 500 years of the Moravian Church, where she serves as a chapel servant and acolyte. She has served on the ACMS School Council, volunteered with the Boys and Girls Brigade for the Moravian church, and the Relay for Life Committee. She has also served as chairperson for the Agvituk Sivumuak Society, volunteered with minor hockey, served as committee member for local woman\u2019s group, sat on a Crime Prevention Committee and is currently Chairperson for Labrador North with Combined Councils of Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Stelman Flynn.webp\",\r\n name: \"Stelman Flynn\",\r\n desc: \"Stelman Flynn, originally from Forteau, is a well-known entrepreneur and champion for economic development in Newfoundland and Labrador. He served two terms as president of Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador (HNL), one of the province\u2019s largest industry organizations, as well as being the founding president of the Provincial Cruise Association of Newfoundland and Labrador. Under Stelman\u2019s leadership, our province witnessed a 200 per cent increase in cruise passenger visitation. For his significant contribution to his community, Stelman was awarded the Confederation of Canada 125 Medal in 1992. He has also received the Queen\u2019s Golden Jubilee Award and the Tourism Champion Award. Stelman and his family live in Corner Brook, and are excited, energetic and engaged members of the community. They are proud of their investment in the local economy with a tourism-driven business in Steady Brook and Forteau. Stelman was also the MHA for Humber East.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Josephine Gaulton-Rowe .webp\",\r\n name: \"Josephine Gaulton-Rowe \",\r\n desc: \"Josephine was a part of forming the Labrador West Mothers Against Drunk Drivers chapter in 2003 and served as president of the chapter for over a decade. In her fourteen years with the MADD chapter, she has been a large part of changing the culture around drinking and driving and has long been the face of the chapter. Josephine has been a dedicated volunteer with Community-Based Policing in Labrador West, helping with many community events aimed 19 at creating a safe and supportive community. Josephine became involved in the local Red Cross group in 2013, and volunteered during the forest fire that summer, as well as when the train broke down that winter. She is a dedicated volunteer, and for that reason, was chosen to be deployed to BC to help those affected by the forest fires this summer.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wayne Gordon .webp\",\r\n name: \"Wayne Gordon \",\r\n desc: \"Captain Wayne Gordon has been involved in the cadet movement as a CIC officer for twenty years in the Labrador City area. A CIC officer is a reserve force member of the Canadian Forces who volunteers their time to work with youth. He has spent a total of ten years as Commanding Officer of the Royal Canadian Army Cadet Corps 2977 Labrador City. During this time, he built a corps of five or six cadets up to thirty-five cadets currently on strength with the unit. Captain Wayne Gordon has been very instrumental in doing his very best for the cadets of today and of the past, to help them along both in their cadet careers and further into their adult lives. His role over the years may have changed, but his goal always remained the same: to do his very best in providing both a good role model and mentor to the youth of RCACC 2977 Labrador City. What Captain Wayne Gordon has done for cadets and fellow officers who have come and gone, who have had the pleasure to be in his company, would also agree that he has provided the highest level of dedication to the well-being of these youth, and that he was always there for whatever had to be done or to help out wherever he could.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Joe Goudie.webp\",\r\n name: \"Joe Goudie\",\r\n desc: \"Joseph Denzil Goudie was born in 1939 in the small community of Mud Lake, Labrador. His mother was writer Elizabeth Goudie. Goudie is known for his career as a broadcaster for the CBC, and as a provincial public servant. He has also served as president of the Labrador Metis Association. Hospitality Newfoundland and Labrador has called him an icon of Labrador\u2019s rich heritage, citing his dedication to Labrador tradition and tireless efforts in promoting the province. He has served as a National Parks consultant and is widely respected for his knowledge 20 and appreciation of nature and shares these values in building traditional canoes, storytelling and with an annual canoe trip down Churchill River. Joe served as Town Clerk and Town Manager of Happy Valley before making the jump to provincial politics. He was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial House of Assembly in 1975, where he served until his defeat in 1985. During this time, he held the posts of Minister of Rural Development (1978\u2013 1982), Minister of Rural Agriculture and Northern Development (1982\u20131985), and Minister of Fisheries (1985).\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert Hay.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gilbert Hay\",\r\n desc: \"Gilbert Hay has been a cultural ambassador for the arts for over thirty-five years. Gilbert was born in 1951, in North West River and was raised in Nain, Nunatsiavut, where he currently resides. He began carving in the early 1970s after moving to Edmonton for vocational training, and he often sold his work through The Eskimo Arts Shop. He is a prolific artist who works primarily in carving, printmaking and drawing. His highly-coveted works are made out of a variety of materials, including whalebone, serpentine, and soapstone. Hay is largely self-taught, motivated by Inuit carving traditions, and a curiosity for exploring new directions and possibilities in art. His carvings are imbued with philosophical and mythological dimensions that are conveyed through a unique sense of humour and abstraction. Hay\u2019s artistic practice forms an integral part of Inuit culture heritage and its presence in the everyday. His work is not only conceived as a celebration of Labrador Inuit culture, but also as critical commentary on political and economic realities, particularly as they relate to the felt effects of colonialism on Inuit culture and life.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Junior Humphries.webp\",\r\n name: \"Junior Humphries\",\r\n desc: \"Junior Humphries became involved with minor hockey in 1975, and has dedicated the last forty-one years to improving the game in his community and certainly the province as a whole. He first became involved in the Labrador West Minor Hockey Association as a coach and graduated through the levels and divisions from IP to Midget and Female as well. He has coached at the recreational and competitive levels and was a member of the Northern AAA Huskies staff when they participated 21 in the provincial major midget league. In 1998, he was instrumental in forming the first female hockey program in Labrador City, one that is flourishing today and he has been an active official in the association, refereeing for over thirty-five years. Junior has been a fixture at the arenas in both Labrador City and Wabush, and has held many positions on the local executive as well as dedicating countless hours to fundraising and overseeing the Association\u2019s operation. Seven years ago, Junior became president of the Association and has continued to work tirelessly for the betterment of the game. He has been a member of several appointed provincial committees over the years including Labrador Travel and has been a big proponent of branch initiatives such as ice allocation and skill development.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/James Igloliorte.webp\",\r\n name: \"James Igloliorte\",\r\n desc: \"James Igloliorte is a retired Provincial Court Judge from Hopedale and is the first Inuk from Labrador to become a judge. James spent most of his career operating the court circuit from Goose Bay until he retired from the bench in 2004. He has a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University. In 1999, he was awarded a National Aboriginal Achievement award in the field of law. He recently taught a preliminary course in legal process with the Inuit-only Akitsiraq Law School, affiliated with the University of Victoria, in Iqaluit, Nunavut. He has been a deputy judge of the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories and was Honorary Colonel of 5-Wing Goose Bay for a year. James has been a Labrador director with the Innu Healing Foundation and was a commissioner with the Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada. James worked as a Commissioner for the Qikiqtani Truth Commission, and most recently as a panel member on the Joint Review Panel for the proposed Lower Churchill hydroelectric development. He volunteers with St. Augustine\u2019s Anglican Church, Memorial University of Newfoundland, and the International Grenfell Association. He is Chair of the Torngat Mountains National Park Co-Management Board and is currently leading reconciliation efforts for residential school survivors in Newfoundland and Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Larry Jenkins.webp\",\r\n name: \"Larry Jenkins\",\r\n desc: \"Larry moved to Labrador in 1968, to Cartwright where he spent his first three years as a teacher, including three summers at Snug Harbour to students that had no formal education available to them during the school year. Larry then moved to Labrador City and remained there for over fortyfive years. Larry\u2019s photography is synonymous with Labrador and northern lights photography throughout Canada and the world. His contribution is simply making Labrador better known to Canada and the world and inspiring countless tourists to visit Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Dr. Michael Jong.webp\",\r\n name: \"Dr. Michael Jong\",\r\n desc: \"As the VP of Medicine, he has created an environment that welcomes new physicians and has been instrumental in their arrival. He provides a winter camping experience that is fun and exciting at the same time as being interesting and safety-oriented. This is well-received by people from all cultures that arrive here, since these are necessary skills. He promotes healthy living by imparting his knowledge and demonstrating in his own life. He supports community health initiatives. He is well-loved by all of his patients, and many Indigenous patients ask for Dr. Jong because of his sensitivity to Indigenous cultures, practices and understanding. Many elders will only rely on his guidance for health issues and consider him a man of their people. He has been to every community in Labrador to provide support and healthcare and travelled when many others would not. Without his leadership, Labrador-Grenfell Health would not have been steered to a successful health organization.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chesley Lethbridge.webp\",\r\n name: \"Chesley Lethbridge\",\r\n desc: \"Chesley Lethbridge Sr. was born in Paradise River, Labrador, on March 15, 1930. Chesley attended a one-room school in Paradise River for two years until it burned down. At the age of ten, he attended the International Grenfell Boarding School in Cartwright, where he spent two years. Twenty-seven years later, he completed high school while taking night classes. In 2005, Chesley 23 completed a degree in Theology from Queen\u2019s College in St. John\u2019s, NL. Ches is also the author of A Life of Challenge in which he accounts the history of Sandwich Bay. By writing this book, as well as a book titled Stories of the Past, Ches assists in the preservation of the history of Sandwich Bay for future generations. Ches became a lay reader in the Anglican Church at a young age and continued on to become a deacon and later an ordained minister. He is a storyteller and loves to talk about life as it was in Labrador during and before his time. When people in Paradise River became ill, he would visit them and get the symptoms of the patient. He would then radio medical people at the nursing station in Cartwright and deliver treatment. When the Hudson Bay Company closed their post, Ches continued the business for S.B. Fequet and Son. He helped organize and get an airmail service for Paradise River and Separation Point; lobbied government to get coastal boat service for Paradise River; worked with Dr. Howard Mendell, University of Guelph, on the conservation of the eider duck population in the Table Bay area of Labrador; served as a director on the Labrador Heritage Society; received a commendation award from the Federal Deputy Minister of Fisheries for services rendered to NL fishermen; organized sports teams to be transported between communities on the Labrador coast; and served as Scoutmaster. Ches was also the numeration officer for the Sandwich Bay area for the first general election for Labrador after Confederation, and served as deputy returning officer for several years. He was Fire Chief for the volunteer fire brigade in Cartwright, Deputy Mayor of Cartwright, and organized the first Local Road Board for Paradise River to receive funding for road construction. He organized a prostate cancer support group. When the one-room school in Paradise River was becoming overcrowded, he organized a meeting to plan the building of a new two-room school. Ches started a Junior Forest Ranger program in southern Labrador, and got permission to issue export permits for fur trappers so they could send their furs directly to the fur auction in Western Canada. When the price of fur dropped local buyers stopped buying fur. When export permits became available, fur trappers could send fur to Western Canada when fur trapping increased again in the Sandwich Bay area. He also initiated conversations with federal government personnel to designate Porcupine Stand and the Mealy Mountain area as a National Park.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Steve Letto.webp\",\r\n name: \"Steve Letto\",\r\n desc: \"Steve Letto, along with his wife Shirley, was the founder of the Northern Light Inn, located in the town of L\u2019Anse-au-Clair. The family-run hotel has functioned for over forty-four years, providing a great place to stay while people from all over the world come to experience the beauty of Labrador. The Inn first opened in 1974 as an eight-room hotel with a small restaurant and lounge. The Inn is now the largest hotel in the region with seventy rooms and a full range of services. The hotel continues its family operations under the management of Steve and Shirley\u2019s sons Chad and Brad, and employs twenty-five people. The Northern Light Inn has played a key role in the development of southern Labrador\u2019s tourism and visitor services and remains an active leader in many local, regional, and provincial industry organizations. Steve has also served on L\u2019Anse-au-Clair Town Council and was involved in the founding of the expanded Combined Councils of Labrador and served on the executive. Steve also served on the Eagle River Credit Union Board in the early days of its founding.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gilbert Linstead.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gilbert Linstead\",\r\n desc: \"Gilbert Linstead is from L\u2019Anse-au-Loup and completed his post-secondary education at the College of Fisheries, now the Marine Institute. In 1981, he joined the Labrador Fisherman\u2019s Union Shrimp Company Limited (LFUSCL) and became general manager in 1989. The company was facing many financial challenges, had limited growth, and restricted earnings. Under his leadership, the LFUSCL became one of the great success stories of the fishing industry in our province. The LFUSCL currently employs 700 people in southern Labrador and the company operates five profitable processing facilities and three offshore fishing vessels. Gilbert has served on the Fisheries Council of Canada, the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation Board of Directors, Northern Shrimp Advisory Committee, Northern Shrimp Research Foundation, Groundfish Advisory Committee for the Gulf Region, Pelagics Advisory Committee, Northern Coalition, and the Association of Seafood Producers. He is extremely well-respected within the fishing industry, as evidenced by his 25 election as Chair of the Fisheries Council of Canada in 2006. Mr. Linstead was also instrumental in the establishment of the community council for L\u2019Anseau-Loup in 1975 and served as secretary\/treasurer for the council from 1975 to 1980. He championed the establishment of the Eagle River Credit Union and served on the board as vice-president for approximately three years.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Eva Luther.webp\",\r\n name: \"Eva Luther\",\r\n desc: \"Eva Luther (Elder), from the Southern Inuit communities of Spotted Islands and St. Lewis, is a renowned expert in the history of NunatuKavut. Eva became a Registered Laboratory Technologist, in 1971 following her education at the College of Trades and Technology. She received a Certificate in Educational Technology in 1997 from McGill University. She has designed and taught traditional and non-traditional craft courses. She also interviewed trappers for Phase III of the Trans-Labrador Highway, and interviewed senior women for the NunatuKavut Community Council. Eva edited and was responsible for the layout and collection of pictures for the St. Lewis Oral History collection Stories and Snaps, published a small collection of Labrador cross-stitch patterns, was involved in the publication of the St. Lewis Metis Cookbook, St. Lewis Anglican Church Women\u2019s Cookbook, and a knitting graph book which features the traditional patterns found in Labrador socks and mitts. In 2002, she received one of six IT Hero Awards presented in the province by Industry Canada. She also indexed the original three volumes of George Cartwright\u2019s Journals. She retired in 2002, and her current interests include Labrador history, genealogy and archaeology, gathering photos and anything written about Spotted Islands, collecting old photos of Labrador, hunting and gathering, organic gardening, bird watching, sewing, knitting, crochet, and her seven grandchildren.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harry Martin.webp\",\r\n name: \"Harry Martin\",\r\n desc: \"Harry Martin was born and raised in Cartwright, Labrador. His ancestry is a mixture of Labrador Inuit and European Settler. Harry began writing songs and playing musical instruments at an early age. His songs tell stories of pioneers and old-timers and speak of the triumphs and tragedies of early life in Labrador that helped make it the cultural mosaic it is today. Harry Martin has always been passionate about the need to protect our natural habitat and to be respectful of the old ways. After serving in the Canadian Armed Forces and the Royal Canadian Mounted 26 Police, he returned to Labrador and Cartwright and began a career in wildlife conservation that would last for over thirty-eight years. A large part of his duties included monitoring the threatened Mealy Mountain woodland caribou and assisting the Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS) in the management of migratory birds. Concern over the declining stocks of eider ducks prompted Harry to establish the Table Bay Conservation committee and with support from Ducks Unlimited, CWS and other agencies, started the Eider Duck Enhancement Project. He represented the Canadian Wildlife Service on the Labrador Woodland Caribou Recovery Team, served on a number of stakeholder committees and was president of the Eagle River Development Association. In 1992, Harry Martin was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal. He was the first ever recipient of the QuebecLabrador Foundation\u2019s \u201cCaring For The Earth Award\u201d; and in 1995 was named Newfoundland and Labrador's Wildlife Officer of the Year. Through his music, and his career, Harry Martin spent the majority of his life promoting and protecting the Labrador he calls home. Harry is retired and resides in the community of Paradise River.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Michael Martin.webp\",\r\n name: \"Michael Martin\",\r\n desc: \"Michael Martin is a third-generation native-born Labradorian, born and raised in Cartwright. His contributions to the social, cultural and economic well-being of Labrador are many and varied. Michael was the first Rural Development Officer for Labrador in the newly-formed provincial Department of Rural Development. He was also the first native-born Labradorian to be elected to the House of Assembly for the New Labrador Party. Michael also organized the newly-formed Newfoundland Fishermen's Union on the coast of Labrador. He helped in the formation of the Labrador Heritage Society and Them Days magazine. He was the Town Manager of Labrador City with the assignment by the Minister of Municipal Affairs to transform what was then an integral division of the mining operation of the Iron Ore Company of Canada into a fully operational municipality under the Municipalities Act of the Province of Newfoundland. He formed and was the first President of the Height of Land Branch of the Labrador Heritage Society and became the first 27 President of the Labrador Society of Ottawa. He created the Labrador Virtual War Memorial with an internet web page dedicated to Labrador veterans, which is now a permanent part of the Them Days archives. Michael was the inspiration and co-founder of the Labrador War Memorial, which was erected in Cartwright but honours all Labrador veterans. In 2005, he was invited by the Department of Veterans Affairs to join the Spiritual Journey and Calling Home Ceremony as one of the group of Spiritual Advisors from Aboriginal communities all across Canada, in which he represented Labrador Inuit and Metis veterans. He is the creator of both the Labrador Tartan and the Labrador Flag.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mike Massie.webp\",\r\n name: \"Mike Massie\",\r\n desc: \"Mike Massie was born in 1962 in Happy Valley. He now lives in Newfoundland with his wife Jo-Ann, and children Keshia, Alexandra and Tyler. His postsecondary education began with a certificate in Commercial Art and a diploma in Visual Arts at the College of the North Atlantic in Newfoundland. This was followed by a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree (with a major in jewellery) from the Nova Scotia College of Arts and Design. Since his first exhibition in 1991, he has participated in numerous exhibitions in North America and Europe, with his works selected for prestigious museum and private collections, including the National Gallery of Canada. As an instructor, he has travelled to the Arctic to oversee jewellery and stone-carving workshops. Mike has also served on a number of art committees, including a most recent position with the Visual Artists of Newfoundland Board of Directors. Early in his college days, he began to forge his own contemporary style by exploring his Inuit heritage and combining traditional imagery with western art influences and techniques. His professional attitude towards his art encompasses a wide variety of subject matter with each piece beautifully crafted, meticulous in finish and exquisitely detailed.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Peter McCormack .webp\",\r\n name: \"Peter McCormack \",\r\n desc: \"Little did Peter McCormack know that when he accepted his first teaching position in Labrador City in 1986, that thirty-one years later Labrador would be \u2018home,\u2019 a home where family, professional and community bonds are rooted deep and strong. Peter was a dedicated teacher whose creative and innovative approach to education was acknowledged by his selection in 2013 as an Apple Distinguished 28 Educator. Although actively involved in coaching, his true passion was for the theatre which he shared with his students and his community, directing high school productions, serving as a member of the Carol Players and founding the Northern Lights Theatre Company. Peter\u2019s commitment to his profession was evidenced by his long tenure as Branch President of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teacher\u2019s Association. Recognition of this contribution saw him the recipient of the Association\u2019s prestigious Bancroft Award for outstanding service. His commitment to his community was evidenced with the award of the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2012, followed by the Town of Labrador City Builder\u2019s Award in 2013. However, Peter\u2019s greatest commitment is to his family, his wife Sandra, his two daughters, Krista and Alicia, and his three precious grandchildren, Benjamin, Felicity and Maci, all who reside in Labrador West. While Peter has had many successes, retirement was not one of them! He left teaching to return to student life earning his certificate in Occupational Health and Safety. He is currently employed at TMH Mechanical in Labrador City as a Health and Safety Officer.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nicholas Keith McGrath.webp\",\r\n name: \"Nicholas Keith McGrath\",\r\n desc: \"In 1986, he was approached by the Labrador West Tourism Association (LWTA) to sit on a working committee to address and improve customer service in the food industry. This would be the beginning of over twenty years of volunteer service in the tourism industry where he served in almost every possible position. Locally, he filled all executive positions with the Labrador West Tourism Association from secretary to president. For twelve years, he served as an executive member of Hospitality NL and again serving in every position from director to president. Nick has been involved with the Labrador West Rowing Association for almost twenty-five years, and during his term on the executive as president along with a dedicated team of volunteers, Nick was successful in taking the organization from almost extinct and bankrupt to a very viable and successful club with a million-dollar infrastructure. As a strong advocate for the region, in 2009 he placed his name 29 on the municipal ballot and was successful in becoming elected. In 2011, he became the MHA for Labrador West. During his four years as MHA, he filled several portfolios as minister.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ernie McLean .webp\",\r\n name: \"Ernie McLean \",\r\n desc: \"Ernie has been a long-term Mayor of North West River, a Member of the House of Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador for Lake Melville, and the provincial Minister of Labrador and Aboriginal Affairs. He is a lifelong volunteer in areas that preserve, protect and promote Labrador\u2019s culture and history. Ernie has now spent decades working with and serving on the Labrador Heritage Society and was a key player in establishing the Labrador Heritage Society museum and the craft shop. Ernie also volunteers with the North West River Beach Festival and the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce, and he has been involved in many other initiatives throughout his career promoting Labrador culture and developing business relationships.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gary Mitchell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Gary Mitchell \",\r\n desc: \"Gary has made a contribution to many facets of life in Labrador. Gary has been involved in the early days of the Labrador Inuit Association and more recently has been a member of the Nunatsiavut Assembly, and now is the chairperson of the NunaKatiget Board in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. His contribution to the community, both in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and in his hometown of Makkovik on the north coast of Labrador is phenomenal. Gary is also a well-known singer\/songwriter. He has written songs that tell of life here in Labrador. He has researched and kept alive the music and lyrics of old Labrador with tunes like \u201cTisialuk Girls\u201d and \u201cMakkovik School Song.\u201d Along with his daughter Jennifer, Gary plays his music all around Labrador. He volunteers his talent for many, many fundraisers and events from the Special Olympics gatherings and Men Helping Women fundraisers to playing at the Long Term Health Care Facility and Aboriginal Day. He is frequently called on as an elder in our community. His knowledge of life in Labrador, having lived here for nearly seventy years, makes 30 him a much sought-after speaker at many gatherings. He has been involved in municipal politics (mayor of Makkovik), recreation (Labrador Winter Games), the Moravian Church, and the Canadian Rangers. His love for, and knowledge of, life here in Labrador is extensive.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Nath Moores.webp\",\r\n name: \"Nath Moores\",\r\n desc: \"Nath Moores was born in Red Bay on September 20, 1951. Nath attended Memorial University, where he received his Bachelor of Arts and his Bachelor of Education. He spent twenty-eight years teaching in a multi-grade classroom as well as the principal of St. Andrew\u2019s Elementary in L\u2019Anse-au-Clair. Even with teaching, running a business and raising three accomplished children, Nath devoted decades to his community and to Labrador. In 1992, Nath was elected to the council of the Town of L\u2019Anse-auClair and has served twenty-four years as Mayor. Additionally, he served for twelve years on the Combined Councils of Labrador, holding positions such as secretary\/treasurer, vice-president for the Labrador Straits, and acting president. As one of the founders of the organization Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation, Nath served the organization for decades. He was also appointed by the Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation as their representative on the Ferry Committee. Nath served as Treasurer for sixteen years and then President for four years of the Newfoundland and Labrador Teachers Association. As a leader in organizing the L\u2019Anse-au-Clair Recreation Committee in 1975, he served as Chairperson until the 1980s. Nath has been a leader for young people in Labrador, having served as a leader of the Boy Scouts of L\u2019Anse-au-Clair, and as a coach with the minor hockey program for ten years.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Perry Mugford.webp\",\r\n name: \"Perry Mugford\",\r\n desc: \"Perry has been actively involved with his community for many years. He has been involved with the Happy Valley-Goose Bay Kinsmen Club for the last thirteen-plus years and he has recently received a Lifetime Member Award from that organization. He has sat as president, vice president, secretary and most recently treasurer for the Kinsmen. He is very familiar with the different fundraising events that 31 take place in his hometown yearly, such as the Turkey Drive for Christmas. He, along with his fellow kinsmen, work tirelessly in helping the people of Labrador. They do this by providing financial assistance for medical travel and providing monetary donations to the different non-profit organizations around town. His family always takes great pride in knowing how much he cares about the people of his hometown and how committed he is to ensuring that people who need to travel for medical reasons aren\u2019t prevented from doing so or aren't financially strained.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Richard Neville.webp\",\r\n name: \"Richard Neville\",\r\n desc: \"Richard is a singer\/songwriter who is from the coastal Labrador community of Black Tickle. He writes and performs songs mostly inspired by the people, culture, and history of Labrador. He is also an accomplished guitarist who has accompanied Labrador\u2019s Harry Martin and has joined him for his award-winning recordings. He can also be heard on many other albums as a guitarist and vocalist. Richard has performed live across Canada, and abroad, as far away as South America and Antarctica. For a period of four years, he was a part of the Halifax folk music scene, where he performed as a solo act and in several bands. Richard has performed on TV and radio many times over the years and has been a featured act at festivals like the Newfoundland and Labrador Folk Festival and Trails, Tales and Tunes. He released his first album of original songs, Old Souls, in August 2011. Richard lives in Happy Valley-Goose Bay with his wife and two children. Richard is a board member of ArtsNL and a kind and humble man that donates his time, energy, and talent to many fundraisers and causes throughout Labrador. His music is a true inspiration to other artists and definitely puts Labrador on the map in a new way\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mark Nichols.webp\",\r\n name: \"Mark Nichols\",\r\n desc: \"Mark was born in 1980 in Labrador City. From 1999 to 2011, he lived in St. John's, where he played third for the Brad Gushue rink in the sport of curling. It was with Gushue where he represented Canada at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the team took home the gold medal. Mark played a vital role in the 32 win by curling 97 percent in the gold medal final. It was Mark's shot, which ran back a guard onto another stone, picking another rock that was sitting in a dead zone, in the 6th end of the final against Finland, that helped Canada to score 6. With the Gushue rink, Mark has been to three Canadian Junior Curling Championships (1999, 2000, and winning in 2001) and eleven Briers (2003- 2005, 2007-2011, 2015\u20132017). He also qualified for the 2013 and 2014 Brier with Manitoba's Jeff Stoughton rink. He is the 2017 Brier Champion, again as third for Gushue, defeating Kevin Koe 7-6 in the final, helping Gushue to win the Brier in his 14th appearance. Part of the highway in Labrador West is named in his honour.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lawrence Normore.webp\",\r\n name: \"Lawrence Normore\",\r\n desc: \"Lawrence was one of twelve children born to Michael and Clarissa Normore. He lives in L\u2019Anse-au-Loup with his wife Emily. Lawrence is a founding and sitting member of the Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation (LSHDC), which was incorporated in 1987. Lawrence\u2019s service is an extraordinary commitment to the LSHDC and the role it has played in the social, cultural and economic well-being of the Labrador Straits. Lawrence\u2019s leadership, knowledge and initiative have contributed greatly to the success of the LSHDC. In 1991, the LSHDC in partnership with the Heritage Canada Foundation initiated a three-year Heritage Regions Project which fostered a process for heritage resource identification and protection in our communities. The experience and success of this project and the care of board members, like Lawrence, have led to a long list of achievements for the LSHDC including the annual operations of the Point Amour Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site and the Gateway to Labrador Visitor Centre. He was very involved in the Labrador Pioneer Footpath development and instrumental in getting municipal buy-in for that project. Lawrence is also a great support for the staff at the Point Amour Lighthouse Provincial Historic Site which is operated by the LSHDC. Because of his great knowledge and keen interest, he has been key to presentations at the Lighthouse, including the Remembering the Raleigh event on August 8 and the annual Lighthouse at Night event in September. Lawrence is also sitting on a new committee of the LSHDC, the Cultural, Heritage and Arts Resource Team. CHART will be presenting Canada 150\u2019s The Story Trail: Celebrating 150 Years in Story and Song in 2017. They also have plans for a Finding Grenfell project, a 2nd Labrador Straits Studies Conference and a Crafts Collective Project. Achievements of the Labrador Straits Historical Development Corporation: Tourism and Destination Advisory Services and Support.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Richard Nuna.webp\",\r\n name: \"Richard Nuna\",\r\n desc: \"Richard Nuna is the manager of the environment office at Innu Nation and has led Innu community engagement on fish, wildlife, land, natural resource and archaeology initiatives for over two decades. Richard has been involved in many Innu Nation environmental accomplishments over the years, from negotiating the first forestry co-management agreement with the Department of Natural Resources and developing the Minashkuat KanakutuatakauInnu Guardians fish and wildlife stewardship program, to building monitoring programs for Voisey\u2019s Bay, Lower Churchill and the construction of Phase III of the Trans-Labrador Highway. He has supported archaeology projects and has worked to advance the Akamiuapishku -Mealy Mountains National Park. Richard is an excellent candidate demonstrating remarkable accomplishment and should be recognized for his many considerable achievements. For a younger man, Richard is quickly becoming a knowledge holder in the community and still has many years of contributions for the Innu people and for Labrador ahead of him.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Karen Oldford.webp\",\r\n name: \"Karen Oldford\",\r\n desc: \"Karen has been a resident of Labrador City for thirty years. She moved from Torbay to gain full-time employment as a registered nurse. With her husband (a proud resident of Labrador City since 1964), they have raised two children, who both currently live and work in Labrador City. Karen brings a strong history of community involvement and volunteerism. Some of the groups she has been involved with include: the Newfoundland and Labrador Nurses Union negotiating team and executive from 1987 to 2005; served with the Canadian Ski Patrol for ten years; served on school councils at Labrador City Collegiate and Menihek High School; been an active volunteer for over fifteen years with Labrador West Minor Hockey; served as co-chair of the Labrador West Wellness Coalition; volunteered with the Lung Association; served as an altar server and lector with the Basilica of Our Lady Parish; Community Advisory Panel social and housing subcommittees, and a founding member of the Labrador West Regional Task Force. Karen served as co-chair of the Housing and Homelessness Coalition and was part of the team who brought the first 34 Habitat for Humanity builds to Labrador West. She currently serves as Mayor of Labrador City and President of Municipalities NL.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Stan Oliver.webp\",\r\n name: \"Stan Oliver\",\r\n desc: \"Stanley Oliver has volunteered in the Upper Lake Melville area for the last twentyfive years with the following organizations: Local: Canadian Cancer Society, Happy ValleyGoose Bay Rotary Club, Happy Valley-Goose Bay United Church, Labrador Friendship Centre, Relay for Life, Labrador Canoe Regatta, Great Labrador Canoe Race, Salvation Army Kettle Campaign, Happy Valley-Goose Bay Figure Skating Club, Town Council of Happy ValleyGoose Bay, Combined Councils of Labrador, Torngat Fisheries Secretariat, Labrador Inuit Development Ltd., Trappers Running Club race day, SnoBreak, Battle of the Brains, SPECS (seniors committee for raising money for eyeglasses), Expo Labrador, and the Chamber of Commerce. Provincially, Stan has been involved with the Canadian Red Cross, Municipal Agency of NL, the NL Cancer Society, and the Atlantic Salmon Association. Nationally, Stan has been involved in the RCMP's National Aboriginal Commission, the National Association of Friendship Centres, and the National Salmon Foundation (AFN subcommittee). In addition to the above, he has emceed hundreds of local events to raise money\u2014everything from hockey games to personal health events for travel to numerous sporting events to association AGMs. He also spent eighteen years serving on Happy Valley-Goose Bay Town Council.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Isabella Pain .webp\",\r\n name: \"Isabella Pain \",\r\n desc: \"Isabella Pain was born and raised in Nain, Nunatsiavut. Upon completion of high school in Nain, she went on to attend Memorial University of NL. She received a Bachelor of Arts with a major in Political Science and a minor in Business. In 1991, Isabella returned to Nain and was hired by the Labrador Inuit Association as a member of the land claims negotiation team. In 2000, she was appointed as the co-chief negotiator of the land claims team and in 2001 also became the chief negotiator of the Impact and Benefits Agreement (IBA) with Voisey\u2019s Bay Nickel Company (VBNC). The IBA was completed and ratified by members of LIA in 2002. 35 Isabella went to work for VBNC in 2004 as the Aboriginal Affairs Superintendent. She was part of the team responsible for ensuring that the Inuit and Innu IBAs were being implemented and that the obligations of the company were being met. Since 2008, Isabella has been the senior negotiator with the Nunatsiavut Government. Isabella has served as a councillor on the Inuit Community Government and was a member of the Nunatsiavut Government Transitional Assembly\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Judy Pardy.webp\",\r\n name: \"Judy Pardy\",\r\n desc: \"Judy E. Pardy was born Judy Elizabeth Cleary on April 15, 1948, in Gander, where she received her education. She worked with Eastern Provincial Airways until moving to Cartwright with her Labrador husband in 1972. Judy started her volunteer work with the Company of Young Canadians where she supported seniors in socio-economic programs. She was a Girl Guide leader throughout the \u201970s into the \u201990s and became Cartwright's first librarian. She ran a local retail business with her husband and was the Labrador Airways agent for almost twenty years. She served on numerous boards and committees such as the CURA Research Alliance, Southern Labrador Family Resource Centres, Youth Advisory Committee and the Mealy Mountain National Park. Most notably, she was the Executive Director for the Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation until her retirement in 2007. Since then, Judy has been very involved in a volunteer capacity with organizations such as the Eagle River Community Housing, the Sandwich Bay 50-Plus Club and Seniors NL. She takes her role as Peer Support Volunteer very seriously and spends most of her free time helping seniors with paperwork and lobby efforts. She was recently nominated as a member of the Provincial Advisory Council on Aging and Seniors. Judy continues to reside in Cartwright with her husband Manuel and her priority in life, her three grandchildren, Allan, Autumn and Finley\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alf Parsons.webp\",\r\n name: \"Alf Parsons\",\r\n desc: \"Alf Parsons has been involved in sports since 1969 with hockey, curling, trap and skeet, golf, biking, triathlons and cross-country skiing on provincial, national and world levels, where he has truly left his mark. Alf has participated in many World Masters cross-country events since 2003, mainly in Europe, where he has won bronze and silver medals. For his achievements, Alf has been inducted into 36 Newfoundland and Labrador Cross-Country Hall of fame and the Newfoundland and Labrador Sports Hall of Fame. This year, Alf attended the Canadian Masters in New Brunswick where he had podium placements in four races and has attended the World Masters in Switzerland. Alf serves on the executive, coaches youth, and designs trails at Menihek Nordic Ski Club. Over the years, Alf has cooked more steaks than George Foreman and cut more wood than Paul Bunyan to keep this organization alive. Alf is also an avid golfer and runs the junior program at Tamarack Golf course. He also spends a lot of his own time keeping the trail in elite conditions and helping out with the chalet with repairs and upkeep.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Elizabeth Penashue.webp\",\r\n name: \"Elizabeth Penashue\",\r\n desc: \"Born into a nomadic family, Elizabeth Penashue learned to write in Innu-aimun as a child and began keeping diaries systematically in the 1980s during the Innu campaign against NATO low level flying and weapons testing on Innu land. She is well-known in Labrador and internationally as a cultural and environmental activist. As part of this work, she leads an annual weeks-long spring walk on traditional Innu hunting trails and a summer canoe trip on the Mishta-Shipu (for more information please see http:\/\/elizabethpenashue.blogspot.ca\/). Elizabeth\u2019s work has been recognized by a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, an honorary doctorate from Memorial University and numerous film and radio interviews and profiles, newspaper and magazine articles, and consultations including testifying before the International Human Rights Tribunal in The Hague and many others. Elizabeth was recently featured in the short film, Meshkanu), by award-winning US-based documentary filmmaker, Andrew Mudge, and is currently working on a book based on her diaries, stories and essays. She continues to speak publicly about environmental, cultural and human rights issues. She states: \u201cI don\u2019t like to walk on pavement. I want to be connected to the earth, to feel the moss and the forest floor beneath my feet. I believe the spirits of those who have gone before us are still there in 37 nutshimit [the forest] and I have a responsibility to them. I will never give up my work, which is to protect the animals, the trees, the children, everything in the circle of life.\u201d\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Julie Penney.webp\",\r\n name: \"Julie Penney\",\r\n desc: \"Julia Marie Penney was born 1951 at Francis Harbour Bight, Labrador. She married Calvin Penney and is the mother of five children. Julia and her family fished at Occasional Harbour until the cod fishery closed in 1992. Once the fishery closed, she and her husband started J.C. Variety, a convenience store which opened in 1993. Since then she has grown her business and expanded three times, and is currently employing four employees, as well as herself. In 2007, she received the Business Excellence Award from the Labrador Southeast Chamber of Commerce. Julia has always served on various committees over the years, such as Recreation (eight-plus years), Women\u2019s Council (five years), Town Council (twenty-plus years, currently serving second term as deputy mayor), and the Church Vestry (three years). Over the past three years, Julia has donated many items such as fresh fruit, yogurt, and dairy to the Kids Eat Smart program and regularly donates to fundraisers in town for various people\/organizations. Even when Julia is not volunteering of her time on committees and groups, she\u2019s most likely helping someone in need.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Agnes Pike.webp\",\r\n name: \"Agnes Pike\",\r\n desc: \"Agnes Pike was born and raised in L\u2019Anse-au-Diable on the south coast of Labrador. Mrs. Pike was married at the age of seventeen, and with her husband Pat raised five children at their home in West St. Modeste. Agnes has been a lifetime volunteer and served on numerous committee\/organizations both locally and provincially. Agnes has been a very strong advocate and voice for the social and economic well-being of the Labrador Straits region. Mrs. Pike is the owner\/operator of Oceanview Resort in West St. Modeste; she started this business of restaurant and accommodations in 1990. As many other business people, she put endless hours of womanpower into making this business successful while still taking her personal time for 38 committee\/organizations she was involved with. Mrs. Pike was never a stranger in voicing her concerns whether it was on the public airwaves, letter-writing or requesting a meeting with the appropriate people. Mrs. Pike has served various roles with town council since 1976, including councillor, deputy mayor and now mayor. Last year, she received a thirty-five-year plaque from Municipalities NL for her years of service in municipal politics.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Stanley William Pike.webp\",\r\n name: \"Stanley William Pike\",\r\n desc: \"Stanley W. Pike was born and raised a Labradorian, and spent his entire life working and raising a family in Labrador. Stan has been involved with many committees and organizations in southern Labrador and Red Bay, Stan\u2019s home, his entire life. He is the eldest son of the late Adelaide and Llewellyn Pike and has three sons himself, Stanley (Jr.), Murray, and Keith, along with numerous grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Stan worked with Red Bay Stores and spent his early years buying and transporting salmon. He has also been employed with the Department of Works, Services, and Transportation as a heavy equipment mechanic at the L\u2019Anse-au-Loup depot. He has also been employed with the provincial Department of Rural, Agriculture, and Northern Development as a Rural Development Specialist. In addition to this, Stan started and ran his own business\u2014a gas station, convenience store, garage, and hardware store in Red Bay\u2014for approximately twenty-five years. Stan\u2019s biggest contributions were through his volunteer work in the southern Labrador region. He has been mayor of Red Bay, involved in numerous community committees through the years. He has been a member of the Southern Labrador Development Association, and was a driving force in bringing the Eagle River Credit Union Ltd. to Southern Labrador in the 1980s. His involvement with the credit union movement continued for many years, and Stan was a driving force in helping the Eagle River Credit Union become the great success it is today. He is also a proud recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sebastian Piwas.webp\",\r\n name: \"Sebastian Piwas\",\r\n desc: \"Sebastian Piwas is known as Caribou Man in his community. He is a knowledge keeper who practices Innu tradition and works to pass it along to the next 39 generation. He is a longstanding Innu Guardian managing fishery and wildlife resources across Nitassinan in northern Labrador. Sebastian has led youth workshops, camps, and fought for rights of Innu and Innu youth. He played a role in the move from Davis Inlet to Natuashish and the healing journey that entailed since the move. Sebastian has served as a band councillor and community leader, especially regarding environment, climate change, and wildlife management.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Calvin Poole.webp\",\r\n name: \"Calvin Poole\",\r\n desc: \"Calvin Poole was born and raised in St. Lewis. A seventy-year resident of southern Labrador, he has worked tirelessly to enhance and preserve the culture of the surrounding towns and settlements adjacent to St. Lewis. He was instrumental in obtaining funding for the development of the St. Lewis Heritage Foundation and museum and provided a leadership role and volunteered endlessly. He researched much of the information that is currently used in the museum, of which he was one of the founders, collectors and contributors. He put forward proposals to have heritage walking trails constructed. He played a significant role in the St. Lewis Come Home Year in 2002. He has captured and preserved much of the area\u2019s history in the museum on Loaders Point, in St. Lewis. Throughout his career as a fisheries officer, he became known all along the coast as a fair and honourable man to deal with. In addition, he has written five books relating to Labrador history: CATUCTO (1996), Battle Harbour 1832-1833, A Backward Glance (2001), Of Ice and Men (2004), Thoughts and Memories of Labrador (2011), Deep Water Creek (2015). He has received the following medals: Canadian Rangers Service Medal, Queen\u2019s 50th Jubilee Medal, Peace Officers Exemplary Service Medal (2 bars) and the NunatuKavut Medal for Service.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Doreen Poole .webp\",\r\n name: \"Doreen Poole \",\r\n desc: \"Doreen Poole was born in Seal Bight, north of St. Lewis, in 1944. Doreen came from a family of hard workers, volunteers and go-to people. She became an ACW member at the age of fourteen, and now at the age of seventy-two is still a member. She volunteers her time to many other activities in her community. Doreen is a regular visitor to Harbourview Manor in Mary\u2019s Harbour. She has been a town councillor, vestry member, school volunteer, recreation 40 committee member, and all-around busy person through her continuous involvement in support of others.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Guy Poole.webp\",\r\n name: \"Guy Poole\",\r\n desc: \"Guy Poole is from St. Lewis (formerly Fox Harbour) and is a Southern Inuit elder. Guy is mostly known for starting \u201cLiz's Walk\u201d in memory of his wife who lost her life to complications from diabetes in 2004. Over the years, Guy has walked over 3000 kilometers on the southern Labrador road from Cartwright to L'Anse-au-Clair, and more recently he walked across Newfoundland to raise over $150,000 for diabetes awareness. He has also received a Volunteer of the Year award from the Canadian Diabetes Association for his yearly effort. Guy has been a proud cultural and community supporter for NunatuKavut for decades by volunteering and working with and for NunatuKavut to advance governance, land claims, and cultural preservation. He has helped countless people through his efforts and is now helping so many more with Liz's Walk \"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bev Power.webp\",\r\n name: \"Bev Power\",\r\n desc: \"Bev Power has been a leader in the skating world since 1987, when she first became a member of the club\u2019s board of directors. She would go on to serve as club president. Once she learned of the need for increased visibility of Labrador, she went on to become Labrador Regional Director on the Skate Canada Newfoundland and Labrador board of directors, with a focus to bringing the needs of the skating community to the provincial organization. The skating community recognized Bev\u2019s leadership skills and passion for the sport, and she is the only person from Labrador to have served as the provincial chairperson of the organization and its longestserving chairperson, having been elected for a total of six terms of office. She has served as a Skate Canada Director, Executive Committee Member, National Rules and Membership Chairperson, Nominating Committee Member and Chairperson of the Sections\u2019 Coordinating Committee. Bev is currently the Skate Canada Newfoundland and Labrador Section Chairperson. She has also served on several hearing panels and has knowledge of Skate Canada\u2019s Bylaws, Policies, and Procedures. 41 Bev volunteered at 2010 Olympic Winter Games and 2009 International Skating Union (ISU) 4 Continents Championships as a member of the Field of Play supervisory team. She has also been a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Jeux Canada Games Mission Staff; an invited participant to the Solicitor General of Canada\u2019s National Consultation surrounding victims of crime and has served as governance and marketing consultant to several community groups. In recognition of her leadership and service to sport and community, Bev has been honoured by the Town of Labrador City as a Community Builder, selected as Sport Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s Executive of the Year, and was the 2002 Skate Canada Volunteer of Excellence Award recipient for Newfoundland and Labrador. Bev has also shared her time and talents to the Labrador City Winter Carnival, served as Sport Convener for the Newfoundland and Labrador Winter Games held in Labrador West, acted as Team Manager for the Labrador team at Newfoundland and Labrador Winter Games and many other community programs, including the JRS School Lunch Program and the Labrador West Music Festival.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gerald Pye.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gerald Pye\",\r\n desc: \"Gerald Pye was born at Cape Charles in 1944. He is an author and poet who writes stories and poems of his life as a fisherman and a Labradorian. He is an ex-fisherman, Lodge Bay keeper of history, and was the Lodge Bay Local Service District Chair for years. He lobbied for the road to Lodge Bay from Mary\u2019s Harbour, the Trans-Labrador highway, and the preservation of Labrador's history. In the latter, he was actively engaged with the community and various heritage organizations telling stories and sharing his stories for future generations.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Anastasia Qupee.webp\",\r\n name: \"Anastasia Qupee\",\r\n desc: \"Anastasia Qupee is an Innu woman from Sheshatshiu, Labrador. She is a mother of three and a grandmother of one. Growing up in Sheshatshiu, Anastasia Qupee\u2019s education in leadership came from sitting around her mother\u2019s kitchen table. These lessons would serve her well in her time as the first Innu woman chief in her community, serving two terms from 2004 until 42 2010. She also served as board member on Innu Nation, Labrador Grenfell Regional Authority and is involved in a number of joint businesses. She is a strong advocate of healthy living and always makes a point of doing things to take care of herself to avoid illness and to provide a good balance between work and home life. Anastasia has worked as a Human Resources Director for the Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation and was elected grand Chief of the Innu Nation of Labrador in 2014 to 2017. She is a tireless worker and a friendly woman who led from strength and compassion and has inspired many young women throughout Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Peter Reccord.webp\",\r\n name: \"Peter Reccord\",\r\n desc: \"Peter Reccord of Gander Bay has been a resident of Labrador West for over five decades where he currently serves as vice-chair of the Grenfell Foundation, Labrador West chapter. Peter has been dedicated to the Labrador West Lions Club where he has held every executive position since 1970. For this he has been recognized with the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award (1991) and the Life Membership Award (1990) for his involvement. Additionally, Peter has organized the Lions Quest Program and was Coordinator and Leader of the Lions Club Santa Claus Parade. Peter has served on many committees and on the Anglican Church Joint Board of Management. Peter has also held various positions on the Labrador West Integrated School Board, including Board Chairperson, and the Labrador City Recreation Commission. He has also served as an executive member at the Labrador West Food Bank. Peter has been a member of the TOPS-NF 2071 chapter since 1980 and during that time served as president. Peter was the Chairperson on the Labrador West Waste Management Committee and on the Organizing Committee of the Newfoundland Winter Games. As a councillor\/deputy mayor of the Labrador City Town Council, Peter has served numerous committees. Peter has also been extensively recognized by his colleagues and community having been awarded such honours as the Labrador City Builders Award, the Labrador City Adult Volunteer of the Year, the Labrador City Executive Member of the Year, the Citizen of the Year Award in 1989, the Provincial Pitcher Plant Award 1995-1996, NLSBA Leadership Award of Excellence 1995, the National Certificate of Merit for Community Contribution 1988 and the Queens Diamond Jubilee Award 2013.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gordie Rendell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Gordie Rendell \",\r\n desc: \"Gordie Winston Rendell was born August 25, 1937, in Sandy Hills, Cartwright. He moved to Happy Valley when he was a teenager. When he was a young man, he worked on the Base, then he eventually went to work for CBC Radio as the sports broadcaster and music DJ. He was very well-known for his radio programme that he instrumented with Joe Goudie called the Mokami Mountaineers. Gordie was always helping with many community organizations and very much involved in developing the music scene in Labrador. He has also contributed to Them Days. Gordie was a very vocal member of the town council, and he was on various boards that would oversee the EJ Broomfield Memorial arena, softball, hockey and many other sport committees and organizations. He ran the first hockey school at the arena back in the early \u201970s called Gordie Rendell Hockey School. Snow Goose Mountain was also a very big part of his life, and his countless hours of volunteering helped keep the ski hill open. He was and is still a very devoted Labradorian. He now resides in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, with his wife Brenda. He continues to be an active member and volunteer in Bridgewater.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Katie Rich .webp\",\r\n name: \"Katie Rich \",\r\n desc: \"Katie is the daughter of Munik and Miste Pinit Rich. She's the mother of six, to: Nachelle, Dawn Maries, Hillary, Nigel, Phili and Petapea. She is also a grandmother. In 1992, she was the first woman elected chief of Utshimassits (Davis Inlet). She spearheaded the People\u2019s Inquiry, a community selfexamination after a house fire killed six children. In December 1993, Katie led a group of women to evict Judge Robert Hyslop, the court and RCMP out of Davis Inlet. Her list of accomplishments also included forcing the federal government to fund the relocation of Davis Inlet to Natuashish on the mainland of Labrador. In 1995, Rich\u2019s militancy and determination earned her the Woman of Courage Award from the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. She was also the first woman elected president of the Innu Nation, paving the way for land claims and advancement of the Innu in Labrador. In 1998, she left politics to look after her family.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Thelma Ricketts.webp\",\r\n name: \"Thelma Ricketts\",\r\n desc: \"Thelma has been an active volunteer in Labrador West for many years with Girl Guides, MADD, music festival, Salvation Army and many more. She is currently the leading role for the local Relay for Life. She has put her heart and soul into the many fundraisers leading up to such a huge complex event like Relay for life. Labrador West is one of the biggest grossing Relay for Life events in Canada. With just 5% of the population of the province, Labrador has consistently out-donated Newfoundlanders, providing, in some years, 20% of the funds raised! Thelma is a key player in making that happen. These funds raised under her leadership provide capital and operating costs for Daffodil Place, something Labradorians have a huge need for when travelling for cancer treatment and care.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gerry Rideout.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gerry Rideout\",\r\n desc: \"Gerry Rideout\u2019s twenty-eight years as President of Menihek Nordic Ski Club and ten years as President of Cross-Country NL is unprecedented in sports organizations in Newfoundland and Labrador. His organization and direction of events, internationally, nationally, provincially, and locally have served to not only promote cross-country skiing, but to provide legacies of infrastructure, equipment and trained officials, also exposing provincial athletes to high-calibre competitions in Newfoundland and Labrador. Under Gerry\u2019s direction, the provincial sports organization of CCNL continues to grow with eighteen existing clubs and three potential clubs with over 2800 members, of which approximately 700 are in youth programs. Gerry encourages clubs to have racing programs that allow our athletes to achieve and excel. He constantly promotes clubs acquiring a club coach and the recognition of current volunteers and the recruitment of new volunteers. Gerry has reached out to coastal communities and provided coaching\/training skills and techniques to enthusiastic newcomers to the sport where previously no cross-country skiing existed. As an administrator, Gerry is well-known 45 across the country for actively pursuing grants and other funding opportunities. Gerry is an acclaimed ambassador for the sport of cross-country skiing far and wide. He never misses an opportunity to promote and advance the sport; this is why he has received many awards and accolades over many years being highlighted in 2011 nationally by the Cross-Country Canada Volunteer of the year award and in 2012 the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Medal.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Thomas Riggs.webp\",\r\n name: \"Thomas Riggs\",\r\n desc: \"Thomas Riggs came to Labrador in 1966. He has served on every level of government from municipal, provincial and federal. He was on every community development committee and involved in politics for the duration of his settlement in Wabush, a young isolated town. He worked tirelessly to ensure the continuous growth and safety of our community. He was union president twice, and during one of the longest and most difficult strikes in the Steelworkers history. It was a daunting and exhausting experience that lasted six months. In 1975, they won and the contract was signed. Local USWA 6285 was the top union in contract benefits and pay in the Steelworkers Union at that time and set precedent. Under his title as Union President, he caused and dealt with many wildcat strikes in the \u201960s and \u201970s, which could be extremely stressful, but the issues were large, and he believed in fair treatment and equality for all. At eighty-one years old, he is currently the president of the Federal PC Party for Labrador, and the vice-president for the provincial PC Party. He has been involved in five federal elections since he was elected in 2006. He has spent the last thirty years involved in politics and has attended conventions all over Canada representing various levels of government.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ford Rumbolt.webp\",\r\n name: \"Ford Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"Ford Rumbolt was born and raised in Mary\u2019s Harbour, Labrador. He has devoted much of his life to volunteering to ensure that Labrador will survive economic changes and also to ensure that we do not lose our culture and heritage in the process. Ford has served as councillor, deputy mayor and mayor of Mary\u2019s Harbour since before it was incorporated in 1975. Ford has also served as vicepresident and president of the Combined Councils of Labrador. He has been active in pursuing a variety of issues with the federal and provincial government on behalf of all towns in Labrador. Ford has been an active member of the Combined Councils since it started in the 1970s up until 2007. 46 There are many other organizations that Ford has been an active member of, including the Labrador Metis Nation, of which Ford has been vice-president and president. He served as a director for the East Shore Labrador Development Association and the Battle Harbour Regional Development Association. He served as director and was a founding member of the Battle Harbour Historic Trust, which was instrumental in the restoration of Battle Harbour to a now National Historic Site. Ford has also been very active in the church of St. Mary the Virgin, serving as warden and treasurer for many years. He has also served as fire chief for Mary\u2019s Harbour and has been an active member of the Mary\u2019s Harbour Lion\u2019s Club since it was formed in 1988. Ford is now the president of the Mary\u2019s Harbour Lion\u2019s Club. Ford has mentored many young politicians over the years, and has instilled in all those who surround him that everyone has to give of themselves, selflessly. His motto to leave the world better than you found it, to be grateful for what you have, and to fight for what you believe, has certainly been his life\u2019s work.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Isobel Rumbolt.webp\",\r\n name: \"Isobel Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"Isobel, or Isi, was born in Scotland and came to Labrador in 1973, when she was twenty-five years old after completing nurse\u2019s training and midwifery training. To Isobel, Labrador sounded like a challenging place to work. Her mother heard Dr. Grenfell lecturing in Glasgow, Scotland, in the 1930s while on a fundraising tour for the IGA. She began her work in Mary\u2019s Harbour, worked in Charlottetown and along the coast of Labrador. She has shown an incredible amount of compassion and leadership in the health care of southern Labrador. Isobel worked for decades as a nurse and was often the only health care professional available. Her job required her to often travel by ski-doo or speedboat between communities, or providing advice over the telephone. She is well-known now as a director with the Southern Labrador Family Centre. Often in a cash-strapped health care system, Isi would take up a cause to raise funds for equipment\u2014perhaps learning from Dr. Grenfell. One of the first times, she raised funds for a motorbike in Fox Harbour to make the long travel easier. Recently her leadership collected dining room furniture from 47 communities they serve, and recognized the town names that contributed. She also formed the Knifty Knitters creating hats, socks, mittens and towels. They would then sell their products, with all proceeds going to the Harbourview Manor. Since starting this project in 2014, they have raised more than $10,000. Their efforts have helped the Manor with such initiatives as updating their kitchen, purchasing new curtains, maintaining their bus and repairing their heating system.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Marie Rumbolt.webp\",\r\n name: \"Marie Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"Marie Rumbolt was born aboard the old Northern Ranger on October 24, 1941. She grew up in Trap Cove (near Battle Harbour) and eventually moved into Mary\u2019s Harbour and started work with the Grenfell Mission when she was sixteen. She has never been a woman who craved public prestige, but has always been on-hand to be of help to any family who needed it. She didn\u2019t mind doing all the things that many others were uncomfortable with, like treating wounds or preparing bodies for burial. She was always there to help with any community function that would occur, she was the community \u201cgo-to person\u201d which eventually instilled her as a community elder. She took in many children over the years whose mothers would have to go to the hospital. She has respect for everyone, and many politicians and others were made welcome guests in her home over the years. She was a welcoming home for RCMP wives and clergy who would have to make her town their home for a few years. At a time when people on the south coast were ashamed to be called Aboriginal, she got heavily involved in the Labrador Metis Nation and helped give the organization an honourable reputation in the community. She is truly an extraordinary woman who has craved nothing more than a happy home and to enrich the lives of others around her.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aubrey Russell.webp\",\r\n name: \"Aubrey Russell\",\r\n desc: \"Aubrey Russell was born in 1945 in William\u2019s Harbour. He started fishing at age twelve and retired at age sixty-eight. In 1987, he was issued one of the first full-time crab licenses in Labrador. Since then he has established a successful fishing enterprise, which is still ongoing today. During his twenty-eight years tenure on the FFAW as chair for the crab and shrimp committees, he helped to create a policy to ensure that all crab harvested in Labrador would be processed there. This created jobs in the region. Also, with the FFAWs help, he was successful in obtaining an area known as The Hawke 48 Box. This is a protected area for crab stocks in the Hawke Channel. He received the FFAW Outstanding Service Award for this accomplishment. He served on the Mary\u2019s Harbour Fire Brigade, Battle Harbour Development Association and twelve years on the Mary\u2019s Harbour Town Council. He is currently serving thirty-one years on the Mary\u2019s Harbour Lions Club and fifteen years with the Canadian Rangers. He is an active member with the Harbour Authority of Mary\u2019s Harbour and St. Mary\u2019s Anglican Church. He is a proud member of NunatuKavut and recently received the Nakummesuak Award for his involvement. His years of service show his commitment and dedication in helping to build a progressive and dynamic Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Todd Russell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Todd Russell \",\r\n desc: \"Todd is from William\u2019s Harbour, a tiny island community on the southeast coast of Labrador, and takes pride in his connection to family and home. Todd is the current president of the NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC). He has been involved with NCC for over twenty years as a past president and former councillor and has been a passionate advocate for the people and communities of NunatuKavut during this time. Although he did take some time away to become MP for Labrador, he still fiercely represented his people and all Labradorians to make sure they had a voice in Ottawa. He works tirelessly to help improve the overall health and well-being of his people. Thanks to his perseverance, NCC is close to the acceptance of its land claim, has significantly increased its economic capacity and is working hard to ensure NunatuKavut communities are viable and sustainable. He looks at challenges as opportunities and understands the importance of having good relationships while dealing with people inside and outside NCC. He is extremely articulate and a motivational speaker, often asked to represent NCC locally, provincially and nationally. He also sits on the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples\u2019 board of directors and is well-respected among his Indigenous peers. He places tremendous value on traditional knowledge and has been instrumental in ensuring that NCC programs are inclusive of Southern Inuit culture, history and traditions so that it is not lost for our youth and future generations.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Edmund Ryan .webp\",\r\n name: \"Edmund Ryan \",\r\n desc: \"Edmund Ryan is a pillar of the Red Bay community. He has served his town in many capacities including being on the founding members of the Labrador Straits Bakeapple Festival, Mayor of the town of Red Bay and a member of the volunteer fire brigade in Red Bay. He was a respected Wildlife Officer with the provincial department of Forestry and Wildlife until he retired at the age of sixty-five. Edmund also dedicated his talent to the United Church in Red Bay as the choir leader, played guitar for forty years as a volunteer at events and participated in every Folk Festival as part of the Bakeapple Festival. Edmund is now eighty years of age and had to stop his volunteering due to illness, but his tireless commitment and contributions to the Red Bay community and region have been invaluable.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Inez Shiwak .webp\",\r\n name: \"Inez Shiwak \",\r\n desc: \"Inez Shiwak was born and raised in Rigolet, Nunatsiavut. Proud of her Inuit heritage, Inez has worked in a number of positions in her community that promote connection to and preservation of culture and heritage, including as a member of the Heritage Committee. Inez currently leads the \u2018My Word\u2019: Storytelling and Digital Media Lab in Rigolet, where she leads community-based participatory processes to conduct research on a variety of research topics including climate change, cultural preservation, youth mentorship and resilience, food and water security, and contaminants. She is a regular presenter at national and international conferences, and is known across the North as an Inuit research leader.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed Smith .webp\",\r\n name: \"Ed Smith \",\r\n desc: \"Ed Smith has resided at Churchill Falls for forty years. He has a love of volunteer work and a desire to make his community a better one. Ed always seemed to be present whenever there was a fundraising effort in motion, or when someone needed a helping hand. In the early days, he took pride in helping to raise money 50 to support our youth involved in minor hockey and the swim team. In the early 1980s, Ed joined the Churchill Falls Lions Club. Since then, Ed has served in many capacities, with a few of them being Tail Twister, Vice President, Zone Chairperson, and Deputy District Governor. During his time as Zone Chairperson, Ed would travel with his family to North West River and Happy Valley-Goose Bay for meetings and to prepare for a District Governors meeting, the first in Labrador. The Lions\u2019 Max Simms Memorial Camp is very special to Ed. For a period of six years, Ed also served on the local School Council Committee. A few years ago, a young couple had a fire in their apartment. Ed and his wife opened their home to them until their place was repaired. Recently, another couple were relocating to Churchill Falls and their accommodations were not quite ready. Ed and his wife once again opened their home to assist them. Ed\u2019s volunteering and commitment to others begins at home, and we are very fortunate to have his kindness extend into our community.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Joan Stamp .webp\",\r\n name: \"Joan Stamp \",\r\n desc: \"Joan Stamp is a pioneer of Labrador City. After moving there from St. John\u2019s with her husband and six kids, she helped build the community into what it is today. Mrs. Stamp has been volunteering for twentyfive years with the seniors club in which she started, and has been president of many organizations. Mrs. Stamp\u2019s dedication to her community, church and to other seniors has been a legacy of volunteerism, leadership, dedication and hard work. She is an active member of her church and on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of Labrador City, Mrs. Stamp received the Benemerenti Medal from Pope John Paul II. In September 2012, Mrs. Stamp was awarded the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee Award for her outstanding volunteer work. She has also been involved with the CNIB, Easter Seals and Girl Guides of Canada. As well, Mrs. Stamp is a member of the Status of Women Council, the Wellness Coalition of Labrador, and the local Community Police Committee. Mrs. Stamp leads by example, staying healthy and active. As a strong supporter of healthy aging, she has been recognized by the Newfoundland and Labrador 51 Pensioners and Senior Citizens 50+ Federation, Seniors Resource Centre and the Labrador West Seniors Group. Mrs. Stamp is referred to as one of Labrador City\u2019s community builders. She was recently honoured as a Senior of Distinction in NL and with the first-ever Sovereign\u2019s Medal for Volunteers by the Governor General of Canada.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Simon Strugnell.webp\",\r\n name: \"Simon Strugnell\",\r\n desc: \"Simon Strugnell was born at William\u2019s Harbour, in 1944, to Andrew and Ida Strugnell. Simon later married Violet Pearl Burden and had a family of six: three daughters and three sons. At the age of twenty in 1964, Simon had started with his own horse and a liking for working in the woods. Later Simon received a subcontract from Roy M. Penney, who had a contract from Bowaters to cut pulpwood. Later Simon had his own contract with Bowaters to haul wood for their pulp and paper operation. When Bowaters left Port Hope Simpson, Simon spent some time fishing and a few years building speed boats, motorboats and longliners, ranging from sixteen feet to thirty-five feet. In 1992, Simon\u2019s sawmill operation grew: he received a contract from Abitibi Price of Stephenville to cut as much as 5000 cord of eight-foot pulpwood. Simon continued to grow his operation, cutting wood, making lumber and building boats. He employed as many as twenty-five local people in his operation, contributing greatly to the southern Labrador region.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gaius Trimm.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gaius Trimm\",\r\n desc: \"Gaius is the owner and operator of a successful construction business, C & T Enterprises, located in Forteau. With a long history of volunteering with numerous economic development and business organizations in his region, he keeps abreast of new developments and current market conditions in the area. Gaius has a good understanding of the opportunities and challenges of operating a small business and with his connections, he is a great asset to promoting the products and services of the Canadian Business Development Corporation, of which he is a regional representative for Labrador. Through developing his business, he has made a huge impact on the economic status of the coast of Labrador by bringing more 52 good jobs to the coast. Gaius has also worked to develop the southern Labrador economy by working with organizations such as the CBDC, the Labrador Straits Chamber of Commerce, and the Labrador Straits Development Corporation.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gail Turner.webp\",\r\n name: \"Gail Turner\",\r\n desc: \"Gail has made a significant contribution to the health and social well-being of all Labradorians. Gail spent twenty-six years working in central, northern, western and southern Labrador as a public health nurse and manager in Public Health, Home and Community Care, and Community Clinics. She worked exclusively with Inuit in Nunatsiavut in the final eight years leading to retirement as Director of Health Services. This gave her opportunity to celebrate Nunatsiavut and Canadian Inuit through presentations regionally, nationally and internationally. She championed telehealth and telerobotics. She was part of the development and delivery of the Inuit nursing program and was especially proud of the culturally safe and high quality nursing service in Nunatsiavut that she helped shape through policy and leadership. Locally, she has volunteered with the Labrador Health Centre, the Lawrence O\u2019Brien Arts Centre and for special events such as the Labrador Winter Games, the Trapline Marathon, and the Cancer Relay. She was a dedicated member of the Happy Valley Moravian church and she has served the church in many capacities. She especially loves the music, the tradition of the church and the bilingual delivery of the services. Gail served on committees locally, provincially and nationally and is currently the Indigenous Director on the Board of the Canadian Partnership against Cancer and the Advisory Board for Indigenous People\u2019s Health (CIHR).\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Regina Vickers.webp\",\r\n name: \"Regina Vickers\",\r\n desc: \"Regina\u2019s parents decided after the birth of their fourth child that it was time for the entire family to move to Goose Bay. In October 1958, Regina who was the oldest at three years, her mother and younger siblings arrived on Eastern Provincial Airlines, and for the next nine months lived on Birch Island. The following year, the family home was towed and placed on land where they became the first settlers in this area of town and that street became known as 53 Terrington Lane. This same piece of land is part of the land occupied by Home Hardware\/Goose Sales. At thirteen, Regina was introduced to insurance sales. Her father taught her how to sell insurance for homes and automobiles while he was away. A year or so later, Regina also worked in the second family enterprise that started as a small corner store and today has evolved into Home Hardware\/Goose Sales. During this period, Regina completed high school as well as a secretarial program through the District Vocational School, now known as the College of the North Atlantic. In 1978, a teaching position in the Business Education program became available at the local Trade School and Regina seized the opportunity to expand her work experience. In addition to teaching throughout the school year, she attended summer sessions at Memorial University. In 1982, Regina spent a year in Labrador City where she taught in the Adult Business Education program as well as business courses in the revamped high school program. In 1992, Regina returned to Happy Valley-Goose Bay and joined her sisters in managing Home Hardware\/Goose Sales, Home Furniture and Vickers Insurance Agency. In December 2012, the sisters were honored to receive the Hank Shouse Entrepreneurship Award from the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce. Regina is quite active within the community. She continues to serve as a Board Member of the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce, Treasurer of the Amaruk Golf & Sports Club and the Rentals Coordinator for the Goose Bay Curling Club. In 2009, Regina joined the Happy Valley-Goose Bay Rotary Club and three years later became the first female Rotary Club President within Labrador and received recognition from MP Yvonne Jones for this achievement. The following year, she completed her second year as Club President and as her term drew to a close, Regina was asked to become Assistant Governor for Western Newfoundland & Labrador (responsible for Clubs in Gander, Grand Falls, Corner Brook, Humber, Stephenville, Labrador City and Goose Bay) as part of Rotary District 7820 Executive for a three-year period ending June 2017.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Patricia Way.webp\",\r\n name: \"Patricia Way\",\r\n desc: \"Patricia Way has been a significant historian and educator over the past fifty years. Born to Muriel (Pardy) and Bernard Way, Patty has lived in Rigolet, Happy ValleyGoose Bay, North West River, Hopedale, Labrador West, Cartwright, and Paradise River, teaching in all but Rigolet. She has taught many grades and subject areas and had an unwavering ability to boost her students\u2019 confidence. 54 Based on personal interest, Patty has gathered historical information over the years for most Labrador families. Building on existing knowledge, she has interviewed hundreds of seniors and spent many hours poring over archival records and visiting graveyards to piece together stories otherwise not known. A voracious reader, she has studied Labrador-related books to assist in solving the \u201cpeople\u201d puzzles. This work she has shared with the families involved and with NunatuKavut and Nunatsiavut. While consulting with NunatuKavut, she participated in their CURA project, a research partnership with Memorial University, and this culminated in a published chapter in the History and Renewal of Labrador\u2019s Inuit-Metis, telling the story of Labrador\u2019s first settler: William Phippard. Currently, she is a contributing participant in the Nunatsiavut Government\u2019s partnership Project with Memorial University, \u201cTraditions and Transitions\u201d, and is a regular presenter at the annual Heritage Forums. Writing is another area of expertise for Patty. Besides her contributions to Them Days and work mentioned previously, she has edited several Labrador books and has proof-read a number of publications. Her community volunteer involvement included serving many years on the Executive of the Eagle River Development Association, five years with the Southeastern Development Corporation, three years as Chair, and she has been on the Board of Labrador\u2019s IT Project (which grew into Smart Labrador) since its inception.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mary Winters.webp\",\r\n name: \"Mary Winters\",\r\n desc: \"Mary was born and raised in North West River and moved to Happy Valley-Goose Bay after marrying her husband Max. She continued to volunteer and be involved, mostly behind the scenes, for numerous volunteer organizations for her adult life. She coached softball from 1970-1984, served on the local minor hockey executive, and in 2006, was awarded a \u201cBuilder\u201d award from the town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. She was the first female umpire to call a national slow pitch championship in 1987 in Marystown, Nfld. She has been involved with the Labrador Winter Games (LWG) since 1986 in various capacities. She was one of the founders of the LWG daily newspaper, The Northern Star. She has been involved with the LWG VIP Hostess Committee since 1995 and started chairing the committee at the 2006 Games. She also was assistant coach to the 1984 silver medal female softball team at the NL Summer Games. She also played broomball and softball 55 for many years. Mary has been a long time member of the Happy Valley United Church and was also on the Worship Committee for several years.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Martha Winters-Abel .webp\",\r\n name: \"Martha Winters-Abel \",\r\n desc: \"Martha was born in Hopedale in 1954, attended Lake Melville School and returned home. Martha has been deeply involved in her community, particularly helping those less fortunate and vulnerable. She has dedicated decades to the Labrador Inuit Association and Nunatsiavut, and even served on the membership review. Martha is perhaps best known for her hard work and leadership establishing the Hopedale Safe House under the Hopedale Status of Women, where she continues to help so many today. She was recognized in this role with an ITK award in 2013. Martha is also a community and Nunatsiavut activist in food security. She works with the community freezer, and has advocated and worked with many other organizations regarding northern food security through Nutrition North and various other policy and program reviews.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Charlotte Wolfrey.webp\",\r\n name: \"Charlotte Wolfrey\",\r\n desc: \"Charlotte Wolfrey was born in the Rigolet area, where she continues to live today. She is known for her work in advocacy and the rights of women and children, as well as for her dedication to speaking against family violence. Charlotte\u2019s tireless work in the area culminated in the creation of a women\u2019s shelter. Charlotte has always been involved in politics in some way, especially at the community and regional level and she served many years on the Community Council and Labrador Inuit Association. She was AngajukK\u00e2k of the community of Rigolet for five years. She has also been actively involved in research for decades, working in various research leadership capacities and championing research in Rigolet and Nunatsiavut. She has served on regional, provincial, national, and international committees, including Canadian Inuit Circumpolar Health Society, Atlantic Aboriginal Health Research, Paukktuutit Inuit Women of Canada and the Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women. She played a big role in the MMIWG inquiry. In 2013, she was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Peter Woodward.webp\",\r\n name: \"Peter Woodward\",\r\n desc: \"Peter graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Memorial University in 1981. He has two daughters, Erin and Gillian. Peter and the Woodward Group of Companies have a presence in every community in Labrador and have employed many Labrador people in every district. Peter, while extremely busy running his company, takes time to volunteer his knowledge and skills on numerous public committees. For example, Peter has taken the time to chair the Battle Harbour Trust over the last while. His passion for Battle Harbour and the region as a whole, has given many a deep respect for Mr. Woodward as he never misses a meeting and has many positive things to say about Battle Harbour. Peter has previously served as chair of Labrador Health Corporation, Chair of Labrador College and Chair of Premiers Advisory Council. He has also previously served on the Board of F.P. Resources and on the Board of Newfoundland Power.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mary Adams.webp\",\r\n name: \"Mary Adams\",\r\n desc: \"Mary Ikey Adams was born in a remote northern trading camp located at Cape Wolstenholme, Quebec, on July 24, 1933, to Mary Kaudjauq and Charles (Michelin) Ikey who was a Hudson Bay interpreter travelling along the Ungava and Hudson Coast of Quebec, and she was a survivor of the residential school located at North West River. Mary Ikey Adams was the Inuk interpreter for the federal government, provincial government, federal penal system, and the Newfoundland and Labrador penal system. She helped countless individuals through the rehabilitation process. She also served as a member and president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council of Canada, and as a member of Pauktuutit Inuit women\u2019s organization of Canada. A mother of fourteen; grandmother of twenty-five; great-grandmother of ten. Mary helped as many of her people as possible throughout her long life. Mary travelled the world for pleasure and work, and when she travelled, she made those around her aware of the Inuit tradition and culture. Mary was also an environmentalist that wanted all waterways and forests protected in Labrador and she wanted to help those less fortunate who could not or would not help themselves in any or all legal proceedings. Mary was a mentor to many throughout Labrador and has been nominated and given awards from various Inuit and other organizations for her dedication and work for the Inuit women who were in prison institutions, federal, provincial and local justice systems and correctional facilities throughout Canada or standing up for women\u2019s rights, not only in Happy Valley, Labrador, but throughout Canada.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/William A. Andersen, Sr..webp\",\r\n name: \"William A. Andersen, Sr.\",\r\n desc: \"William Andersen, Sr. was a community and regional leader who helped shape the political atmosphere in Nunatsiavut to what it is today He was the longtime community leader and first-ever and long-term mayor of Makkovik. He is a founder of the Combined Councils Northern of Labrador, which now exists as the Combined Councils of Labrador. He was the first Aboriginal provincial wildlife officer for Labrador 59 and served the area from Hebron to Cape Harrison for thirty-two years by dog team in winter and motor boat in summer. William Andersen Sr.\u2019s efforts and words would inspire future Inuit leaders: \u201cYou are shaping the future of Labrador Inuit and you can do it, don\u2019t give up.\u201d His support helped secure the Labrador Inuit Land Claim Agreement with Inuit self-governance being achieved through the establishment of the Nunatsiavut Government. Nunatsiavut has changed a lot since the creation of the Nunatsiavut Government and the efforts of William Andersen Sr. should be recognized as part of that achievement.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Tanien (Daniel) Ashini.webp\",\r\n name: \"Tanien (Daniel) Ashini\",\r\n desc: \"Daniel Ashini, born in October 1959, was elected Chief of the Sheshatshiu First Nation at the age of nineteen, and quickly led the Innu to the centre of the world stage through his invaluable community leadership during the low-level flight protests and as one of the founders of MiningWatch. Ashini has spoken at the United Nations; worked closely with researchers, assisting their understanding of Innu culture and history; and was a key negotiator for the Innu land claim. His courageous advocacy for Innu lands, their rights and way of life inspired his people and had a significant impact on the political, social and economic development of Labrador. Ashini\u2019s life is a lasting legacy to the power of conviction, and his passing was a great loss to the Innu, to Labrador, and to all Canadians. Sheshatshiu Innu Chief said \u201cDaniel was an inspiration for all of us. He grew up at a time when Innu had little control over their lives. He lost his parents when he was young, and he faced many challenges as a young man. But he emerged as a leader despite those circumstances. He drew strength from our elders and our way of life, and never gave up the fight to have Innu rights respected.\u201d\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harry Baikie.webp\",\r\n name: \"Harry Baikie\",\r\n desc: \"Harry Baikie was born in Mulligan and moved to Birch Island, then Happy Valley when his father began work on the US military base. His background was of a Scottish\/Inuit family who made their living as trappers with the Hudson's Bay Company. Harry made many contributions to Labrador and was a quiet champion of all things about his heritage. He was well-respected by all who knew him. 60 Harry began his political career in 1969 as a town councillor. He served as Deputy Mayor of Happy Valley-Goose Bay from 1985 to 1989 and then went on to become Mayor. His influence was felt throughout the province, through his representations on the Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro Board of Directors and the International Grenfell Foundation Board of Directors and many other boards and committees. Mayor Baikie's love of the land, commitment to the preservation of the lifestyle and heritage of Labrador, and his community involvement have shaped Labrador for the better.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ed Battcock.webp\",\r\n name: \"Ed Battcock\",\r\n desc: \"Ed Battcock is fondly remembered for his kind and generous spirit. At eighty-four years old, Ed started the \u201cCans for Kids\u201d charity in his Happy ValleyGoose Bay garage. His initial goal was to help twenty kids receive cleft-lip surgery by donating funds to a charity called Smile Train. For over a year, Ed tirelessly sorted through an endless supply of garbage bags filled with cans and bottles. Cans for Kids, at the time of Ed\u2019s death, raised over $46,000, which helped treat seven kids with leprosy and 139 kids with cleft palate. Ed also supported his community through initiating Alcoholic Anonymous meetings across the coast. His efforts helped countless Labradorians cope with their addictions and he was known in some circles as the \u201cgodfather of AA\u201d. Ed spent his last forty-nine years sober. Again, Ed is fondly remembered for his kind and generous spirit and his tireless community engagement.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alton Melbourne Best.webp\",\r\n name: \"Alton Melbourne Best\",\r\n desc: \"Alton Best, of Mud Lake, contributed greatly to the preservation of Labrador culture through his music. He founded the band The Flummies in the mid1970s, and toured the province, across Canada and internationally, sharing the songs of Labrador. The Flummies are two-time East Coast Music Award winners. A modest man, he was awarded the Order of Newfoundland in September 2011, just eight months before his untimely death in May of 2012. One of his 61 last wishes was that the band would carry on performing the traditional music of Labrador and music written by The Flummies. Fellow band member Eugene \u2018Tunker\u2019 Campbell said that Alton knew every old song that they were ever requested to play, and liked to please the audience. Musician Richard Neville called him a pioneer in Labrador\u2019s culture, heritage, and music and said it was a great gift and honour to have played on the same stage as him. Another local musician, Donna Roberts, called him \u201cOne of Labrador\u2019s finest ambassadors.\u201d Alton tirelessly volunteered his time and musical talent for many community fundraisers and mentored several young musicians along the way. He always talked about the importance of keeping the music of Labrador alive. Alton also cared deeply for his land. He was a trapper, hunter and fisherman who passed along his knowledge of the land and its ways to his children, grandchildren and anyone else who cared to learn.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Francis Buckle.webp\",\r\n name: \"Francis Buckle\",\r\n desc: \"Archdeacon Rev. Francis grew up on Buckle\u2019s Point, Forteau. One of five siblings, he lost his mother at an early age and left home at sixteen to continue his education. He was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada, and served most of his career within Labrador, with a couple parishes on the island. His passion and love for Labrador was evident in all that he did. He wrote several books and invested much time in the ancestry of his homeland. An avid outdoorsman, he loved to be one with the nature of Labrador, whether it is on the ski trail or walking the sandy beaches. Sadly, he succumbed to cancer long before all his work was finished. Labrador was his passion, his pride, and his life\u2019s work. Archdeacon Rev. Francis Buckle is known throughout the Big Land; his lifelong journey was dedicated to the people of this great land. He was a true Labradorian.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Patrick Cabot.webp\",\r\n name: \"Patrick Cabot\",\r\n desc: \"Patrick Cabot of West St. Modeste built the first fresh fish processing plant in the fall of 1977 called Northern Fisheries Ltd, which is now known as the Labrador Fishermen Union Shrimp Co. The plant is one of the largest employers on the coast of Labrador, buying and processing fish from fishers and employing their families. To this day, the plant is contributing to the local economy, giving people gainful employment. Patrick was also the proud owner of a retail business called the Cabot Store, which was built in 1967. The business was particularly important as they supplied groceries to families throughout the winter months when there was no marine ships delivering supplies. Patrick allowed community members a credit account throughout the winter months so they would be able to provide food to their families. He knew many families would have difficulty paying during the winter months, but knew that people would pay up when the fishery started up in the spring. He was part of the development of the community of West St. Modeste and performed his civic duty to the community by being mayor for many years and Justice of the Peace so the people of the Labrador Straits could get documents notarized without having to travel great distances to have this done as there were no other individual in the community with the approval to do this. Patrick was a very kind man that would willingly give the shirt of his back to help others when they needed it. On more than one occasion, Patrick took food, personal items and gifts that were given to him and give them to people in the communities that needed it: as he used to say, \u201c I don\u2019t need all that clothes and things, share and be kind to people\u201d. Patrick continued until his death in April 2011 to be an important part of the Labrador coast by doing everything he could to help people.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lydia Campbell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Lydia Campbell \",\r\n desc: \"\u201cAunt Lydia\u201d Campbell of Mulligan, born November 1, 1818, was designated as a person of national historic significance in 2009, on the recommendation of the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada. Lydia\u2019s importance to Canadian history is tied to her literary contributions which chronicle a life spent living at numerous intersections as an Indigenous woman of mixed decent. She is an iconic figure in Labrador\u2019s Inuit, Anglo, and Metis past, offering a rare glimpse of colonial life spanning a time of pervasive cultural change. Her literary contributions reveal a \u201cresourceful, pious woman who straddled European and Inuit worlds using the beliefs, knowledge, and skills of both, sometimes in innovative ways.\u201d\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Clara Evelyn Campbell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Clara Evelyn Campbell \",\r\n desc: \"Clara Evelyn Campbell was an Inuk woman from the small community of Rigolet. She was a residential school survivor who passed away in March 2013, at eighty-four years of age. She was the first Inuk teacher in Labrador and began teaching in 1949 in Mulligan. She taught for a total of thirty-six years before she retired. She started out teaching in a one- 63 room school with children from grades one to eight and sometimes high school students. She went on to become principal once they got additional teachers. She played a big role in her community, not only as a teacher, but as a lay dispenser who looked after anyone who got sick while coordinating visits for doctors and other health care professionals. She was also active in the church where she played the organ and organized Christmas and Easter festivities. She received the Order of Canada and the Jack Hildes Medal from the Canadian Society for Circumpolar Health for lay dispensers. She also served on the Labrador-Grenfell board. She spent lots of time practicing Inuit traditions and customs with her husband who was a hunter, trapper, and fisherman.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Byron \u201cFiddler\u201d Chaulk.webp\",\r\n name: \"Byron \u201cFiddler\u201d Chaulk\",\r\n desc: \"Byron \u201cFiddler\u201d Chaulk was born in Pearl River, Labrador, in 1935. Byron and his father worked for the American military base at Happy Valley-Goose Bay, where he saw the way of life in Labrador change. He would later write songs about these changes, his cultural mediations a treasure for all Labradorians. In Labrador tradition, Chaulk\u2019s second song he ever wrote, High on the Mountain of Old Mokami, celebrates the land and life of Labrador: \u201cThey can talk of their cities, their riches untold, All the things they have bought with their silver and gold. All the gold that they have couldn\u2019t buy what I see, From high on the mountain of old\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ambrose Chubbs.webp\",\r\n name: \"Ambrose Chubbs\",\r\n desc: \"Ambrose Chubbs of St. Lewis was a politician who spent many years in public life. Mr. Chubbs first became a community volunteer in 1983, when he joined the St. Lewis Town Council for the first of many terms. He was active as a member of the East Shore Development Association, a founding member of the Battle Harbour Regional Development Association, and later a member of the Southeastern Aurora Development Corporation. In more recent years, he served as the mayor of St. Lewis, and Vice-President of the Joint Councils of Labrador, an umbrella organization of all municipal councils in Labrador. Mr. Chubbs was a devoted community volunteer, playing leadership roles in attracting new investment and economic activity to the St. Lewis area. He was a strong advocate for youth involvement in the community and in economic development generally. He was a pioneer in the development of the Labrador Snowmobile Winter Trails Initiative and was instrumental in making the business case to have St. Lewis joined up with the Trans-Labrador Highway.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Frank Clark, Sr..webp\",\r\n name: \"Frank Clark, Sr.\",\r\n desc: \"Frank Clark of Charlottetown, Labrador, was born in 1959, in Bolsters Rock. He met and married Mary Kipppenhuck in Square Islands. Frank was not only a fisherman but a community leader who spent a lifetime helping others. Frank was one of the men to volunteer to pick up supplies in Lewisporte to build the local Charlottetown clinic, which he also helped build. He would go on to serve for fifteen-plus years on the Grenfell Hospital board and worked hard to help bring in doctors and nurses when needed. When a death occurred in his community, he often helped with preparing bodies for burial and planning funerals, along with digging graves and even building caskets. He was also Mayor of Charlottetown for several years and worked very hard to get a volunteer fire department started in our town. He was blessed to be on the scene of what could have been a loss of life when he pulled Sandy Powell from a fall through the ice on a late spring trip to Square Islands. His list of accomplishments goes on and on but being a great dad never went astray. He was the father of fourteen children and always found a way to provide for them amidst all his volunteer work.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Aden Clarke.webp\",\r\n name: \"Aden Clarke\",\r\n desc: \"Aden Clarke of Cartwright contributed a lot to Labrador through his music and volunteerism. Aden was an accordion player who became a duo with Cathy Lane in 1989. The duo performed for twentysix years together and \u201cfor over half a decade, no festival or celebration in the Upper Lake Melville area seemed complete without Lane and Clarke on stage.\u201d He was active in his community where he acted as the choir lead at St. Andrew\u2019s and was a member of the Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) group, which helps rehabilitate incarcerated people and integrate them back into society after release. Aden dedicated his time to his community and church through his volunteerism and music. Lane states she \u201cnever saw anybody enjoy life so much and give so much. He lived every day of his life and he loved it.\u201d\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Raymond J. Condon.webp\",\r\n name: \"Raymond J. Condon\",\r\n desc: \"Raymond J. Condon, of Labrador City, was a beloved high school teacher, starting his career in Newfoundland before moving to Labrador West. He was on the Arts Committee, and is considered to have been largely responsible for Labrador City getting an Arts and Culture Centre. He also became the first principal of the College of the North Atlantic, Labrador Campus. In the late 1980s he was diagnosed with HIV. In 1990, he announced he was retiring from teaching because of his ailment and also announced that he was gay. For the last two years of his life, he agreed to let a CBC documentary crew follow his life as he travelled all over Labrador and Newfoundland to talk to students about being gay and living with HIV at a time when most people didn\u2019t know someone who was openly gay. The cameras followed him as he got weaker and weaker, yet he never wavered in his belief that his story could help people. Ray Condon passed away on April 12, 1992. To this day, people remark how Ray\u2019s story helped them coming out of the closet through sharing his story and experiences with others. Ray was an amazing man, teacher, principal, brother, son, uncle, friend, and Labradorian. His contributions have changed the lives of others for the better while instilling hope for the future.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Allan Dumaresque.webp\",\r\n name: \"Allan Dumaresque\",\r\n desc: \"Allan Dumaresque was born in L\u2019Anse-au-Clair, and moved to Labrador West in the late 1960s and then brought his wife and seven children to Labrador West in 1971. He was actively involved in the community in both the coast of Labrador and Lab West. In Labrador West, he was a visionary for bringing dialysis capabilities to the community. He made it is his personal quest to bring dialysis treatment to Lab West so that residents would not have to fly to St. John\u2019s away from family and friends to receive the necessary treatment. He was the catalyst for this important health care initiative. He braved the Labrador weather and collected recyclables with the full support of the community. He collected $38,000, one can and bottle at a time, and drew the attention of the necessary politicians to bring this medical service to the people of Lab West.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gerald Dyson .webp\",\r\n name: \"Gerald Dyson \",\r\n desc: \"Gerald Dyson was born in Porcupine Bay, raised in Batteau, and lived in Mud Lake\/ Happy Valley. Gerald came to the Valley as a young boy to work building the Base and then worked for \u201cthe Americans\u201d until their departure. Afterwards, he continued to do his same job with snow removal until he retired. He was an avid community activist and spent his time championing any and every cause that worked toward a stronger and more efficient and healthy Labrador. He was a permanent fixture in the gallery at every Town Council meeting and offered constructive advice to both elected officials as well as employees. His long fight for a water treatment facility was successful, and the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay saw fit to name it in his honour. Always the environmentalist, he insisted on educating everyone on these issues that were near and dear to his heart and done so as productively and respectfully as possible. He truly believed that everyone had a shared responsibility to build a strong community and that we owed it to the world to help make a positive difference!\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Randy Earle.webp\",\r\n name: \"Randy Earle\",\r\n desc: \"Randy Earle is the eldest son of Harvey and Iris Earle. He was born and raised on the south coast of Labrador in the town of L\u2019Anse-au-Loup. He passed away suddenly in November of 2016. Randy was deeply involved in his community. Randy lived a life that was full whether it was as an outdoor enthusiast, his family life, and business life. As a young man barely in his twenties, he scaled the Torngat Mountains by walking from Hebron Fiord to Saglek in the summer of 1991, while working as a bear and caribou researcher. He owned two fishing lodges and hunted, guided and fished extensively throughout southern Labrador. As a family man, he was a devoted son, brother, husband, step-father, and a friend to all. As a business and community leader, he was a board member on the Eagle River Credit Union, on the Labrador Straits Chamber of Commerce, shareholder on New Dawn Resources Inc., board member on the Rural Secretariat, he had a rental property in Forteau, and he had three businesses over the years which included a major grocery store, sawmill operation and outfitting business. As a respected member of our community, he made an impression on all of us on the south coast of Labrador. Randy was a visionary business leader and a passionate community leader. He was a proud Labradorian and at the age of only forty-six, was taken from us too early. He had experienced more of life than many who have lived twice his age. Randy contributed to his community, to his way of life and to his family. He was admired by all and had so much yet to give. He was an outstanding citizen of Labrador and will be forever remembered with fondness\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Wayne Earle.webp\",\r\n name: \"Wayne Earle\",\r\n desc: \"Ralph Wayne Earle was born in L\u2019Anse-au-Loup on May 1, 1954, to Ralph and Maude Earle. Throughout his life in a professional and volunteer capacity, Wayne\u2019s devotion and admiration for Labrador was evidently portrayed. Wayne worked in the financial field and his expertise was an asset for each employer to who had the privilege of working with him. He was employed with Avco Financial Services, Eagle River Credit Union, and in his later years he worked with a local organization\u2014Southern Labrador Development 68 Association\u2014as an employment counsellor. During this work experience, he coordinated and worked with many individuals, governmental departments, and agencies. Wayne strived to enhance all individuals\u2019 developmental capacities because he felt everyone was great at something and had something to offer. Not only did Wayne portray the desire to foster individual achievement at a professional level, he dedicated many personal hours to volunteerism in his community and in the region. Wayne devoted unsparingly eighteen years to his hometown\u2019s municipal governance in capacities as a mayor and councillor, in which during that time he served on many sub-committees. His representation on the Municipal Assessment Agency, the Labrador Straits Development Corporation, and the Labrador Grenfell Health board, the local ATV Trail Association, the Labrador Winter Games Committee, and the Labrador Metis Nation truly revealed his expectations and aspirations for the region futures. Wayne was a true advocate in all aspects for the entirety of Labrador. Wayne had many passions and one well-known was his involvement with the local Minor Hockey Association. Wayne loved hockey as a young adult and his passion followed him throughout his life. He ensured to keep the Canadian spirit alive by volunteering many hours to provide our younger generation with the opportunity to feel as proud and passionate of the sport as he did. Many parents and children can attest to Wayne\u2019s true admiration and devotion during his coaching time with the association. Unfortunately, in late 2005, Wayne\u2019s sudden diagnosis of a terminal disease changed many lives; not only his families but countless individuals young and old were impacted. On January 31, 2006, Wayne left a legacy that will forever remain in the hearts of many.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bill Edmunds.webp\",\r\n name: \"Bill Edmunds\",\r\n desc: \"William Solomon (Bill) Edmunds, the son of Tom Edmunds and Rhoda Palliser, was born in Lake Harbour, Baffin Island, on September 8, 1932. When Bill was five years old, Tom Edmunds returned to live in his birthplace of Hopedale, Labrador, with his family. Bill began his formal education at the age of seven in Makkovik, Labrador, where the Moravian Mission operated the only northern Labrador 69 school. Bill had a varied working history prior to his presidency of the Labrador Inuit Association. He was employed as a heavy equipment operator with the American Air Force in Goose Bay, Labrador, from 1951 until he left to reside in Hopedale in 1967. From 1967 until 1975, Bill worked in Hopedale, Nain and Makkovik with the Air Force, Brinex (British Exploration Company), and the Northern Labrador Services Division of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. Bill became involved early on in the creation and running of the Labrador Inuit Association, becoming its second president in 1975. While president, Bill selflessly contributed his ideas, energies, efforts and personal strengths to many Labrador causes, such as the Federal-Provincial Native Peoples\u2019 Agreement, the Labrador Resources Advisory Council, Labrador Legal Services, the Fishery Emergency Policy Committee, the Northern Labrador women\u2019s movement and the Labrador Friendship Centre. He dedicated many years to the development and served on the Inuit Circumpolar Council and Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami. He was one of the original founders of the Combined Councils of Northern Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Garfield Flowers.webp\",\r\n name: \"Garfield Flowers\",\r\n desc: \"Garfield Flowers was born June 2, 1940, in Sango. Garfield was a politician, businessman, and family man. He was actively involved in municipal politics during his lifetime serving on the Town Council of Hopedale for many years. Much of his time spent on Council was as Mayor of Hopedale. Garfield took the big step of running his own show in 1969, when he won a contract to run the local weather station. He started a few businesses on the side\u2014like road construction and selling candy\u2014 while he was running the weather station. In 1982, he bought a building from the now-abandoned radar station, moved it into town and turned it into a general store, bringing in hundreds of items never before seen in Hopedale. He set up Northland Enterprises as a holding company for his activities. He became a brewer\u2019s agent and started a bar. He opened a garage and set up a construction company. The local post office is in one of his buildings and he was the biggest landlord in town. He convinced the phone company to bring service to Hopedale in 1966. He owned most of the heavy equipment in town. Flowers spent much of his life bringing light to the many issues that northern Labradorians face. Flowers advocated for increasing economic opportunities 70 that he believed were available in the sealing industry and actively lobbied for the construction of a road through the north coast of Labrador. Garfield was a true Labradorian and devoted much of his time to the betterment of his community. Garfield was an Aboriginal Business Hall of Fame (ABHF) laureate whose entrepreneurial approach to business made a substantial contribution to the economic prosperity of his community in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut. Clint Davis, President and CEO of CCAB, says that Garfield was seen as a trailblazer in business and a leader in community. Garfield served on many boards and committees regionally and provincially, including the health authority, for many years.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Alexander Flynn.webp\",\r\n name: \"Alexander Flynn\",\r\n desc: \"When Alex Flynn was a small boy, he learned to make cast nets and had maintained that skill for over seventy-five years. As a child, he made them for necessity since they were needed for fishing, a way of life. Along with cast nets, he learned to craft snowshoes, which were also of significant value to his way of life in Labrador. In his working years, he made too many to count as he acquired a reputation for being an excellent craftsman. After Mr. Flynn became a senior and stopped working, he continued making these items along with other things such as sealskin dog whips, netted vegetable bags, and small wooden carvings such as komatiks. This became an enjoyable hobby, as these activities were second nature to this self-sufficient man. He became widely known for his exquisite work as word got around the community and beyond. Tourists and locals alike would often show up at his door looking for an item or two. School students would feature his products in heritage fairs, while others would come to learn his skill. Newspapers and other publications often highlighted his wonderful contributions to our culture. He was an exceptional Labradorian and Canadian.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Stella Fowler.webp\",\r\n name: \"Stella Fowler\",\r\n desc: \"\u201cAunt\u201d Stella Fowler was a district representative for the Women\u2019s Institute in the Labrador Straits. In the early years of the Institute, the branches were involved in the crafting, knitting, and sewing of 71 outerwear for men during the wartime. Stella played a large role in preserving these traditions and would often go into schools to teach her skills to students. Her motto was: \u201cwaste not, want not\u201d and would avidly repurpose or recycle materials. Things often had a second or third purpose and would not go to waste. However, Stella is probably best remembered for her eager enthusiasm and commitment to advancing the role of women in her community.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Blair Gillis.webp\",\r\n name: \"Blair Gillis\",\r\n desc: \"Blair Gillis grew up in Prince Edward Island, and came to Labrador with the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company. Naturally, he fell in love with Labrador and never left. Blair was a shining example of great leadership in Labrador; a man who helped build this Big Land into what it is today. Blair gave so much back to his community in a number of ways, including as Mayor of Cartwright, President of the Eagle River Development Association, and the major roles he played on many different boards over the past twenty-plus years. He was truly a strong advocate for Cartwright and indeed all of the south coast of Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Elizabeth Goudie.webp\",\r\n name: \"Elizabeth Goudie\",\r\n desc: \"Elizabeth Goudie was born April 20, 1902, at Mud Lake, Labrador, the daughter of Sarah Michelin and Joseph Blake. At 18, she married Jim Goudie, a trapper, with whom she had nine children, one of whom, Joe, served as member of the House of Assembly for Naskaupi (1975-85). She is the author of Woman of Labrador, which details life in rural Labrador as a trapper\u2019s wife in the early 1900s. While her husband, Jim, worked the traplines, Elizabeth was left alone much of the year to rear eight children which meant she had to fill multiple roles including hunter, shoemaker, seamstress, doctor, and homemaker. Her memoir details the radical changes to Labrador during her life, such as the construction of an airport in Goose Bay during the Second World War. A prominent theme of her memoir is her pride and contentment of the nature of Labrador which was increasingly becoming displaced due to military and industrial projects allowing for insightful cultural mediations. In 1975, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Memorial 72 University for her life and work. In 1980, the provincial government building in Happy Valley-Goose Bay was named after her.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Horace Goudie.webp\",\r\n name: \"Horace Goudie\",\r\n desc: \"Horace Goudie was born in North West River in 1922, and grew up in Mud Lake but lived most of his life in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. He is a Labrador icon and hero to many, passing at the age of ninety-four in January, 2017. He devoted his life to the Labrador wilderness, and was one of the last of the Height of Land trappers, epitomizing the way of life of many Labradorians who made their living off the land. He was also a patient and willing teacher, and would teach trapping, canoe-making, and anything else to anyone interested in learning. Horace also wrote an autobiography, Trails to Remember, now in its second printing. In it, he captures the way of life of hunters and trappers of Labrador, a way of life that is now extinct. His contributions to the cultural and social fabric of Labrador would be remembered by anyone that knew him. He received the Queen\u2019s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, for his significant contributions to his community.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Herbert Hardy .webp\",\r\n name: \"Herbert Hardy \",\r\n desc: \"Born in Point Amour, Labrador, Bert Hardy spent all of his working life in Labrador. First in North West River with HBC, and then as manager of Battle Harbour\u2019s Baine Johnson and Earle Freighting Service Salt Fish Buyers. In early years, Mr. Hardy worked tirelessly to ensure the people of the Battle Harbour involved in the fishing industry were treated fairly and with respect. Many of the people in Battle Harbour were like family to Mr. Hardy. But it is in later years that we wish to nominate Mr. Hardy, for his efforts to ensure Battle Harbour became the cultural mecca that it is today. Bert knew that Battle Harbour was steeped in history and became very motivated to see that its history was preserved. We wish to acknowledge his contribution to the collection and safeguarding of Battle Harbour\u2019s many artifacts and the foresight that he had in keeping The Earle Freighting company buildings from falling into total disrepair. Battle Harbour Historic Trust has been in place since the early 1990s to oversee and ensure Battle Harbour\u2019s rich history is of benefit, economically and culturally, to the people of Labrador. Mr. Hardy lived in Point Amour until his teenage years, at which time his family moved to St. 73 John\u2019s. He spent all but one (due to open-heart surgery) fishing season on the coast of Labrador and continued to do so in his retirement, having a home in both Mary\u2019s Harbour and Battle Harbour. As a family with strong Labrador roots\u2014his wife hails from Cartwright\u2014we wish to nominate our father as a Labradorian of Distinction among the many other worthy candidates.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Edward Hearn.webp\",\r\n name: \"Edward Hearn\",\r\n desc: \"Edward Hearn, Q.C., was originally born in Brigus, Nfld. He moved to Labrador City in 1974, and made it his home. He had planned to come to Labrador for one year but he stayed in Labrador City for the rest of his life. After being called to the NL Bar in 1974, he helped found the practice Miller and Hearn in Labrador City. His firm today is the longest established legal firm in Labrador, which has served the community for forty-eight years to date. His work in the legal community transcended a local practice. He had a distinguished legal career representing the Government of NL, the City of St John\u2019s, and the Labour Relations Board. Most notable of these appearances was the 1984 Upper Churchill Water Rights Reversion Act case. He made frequent appearances before the Public Utilities Board representing Labrador City and other towns in Labrador. He championed the use of Section 92A of the Canadian Constitution as a means to bring additional revenue from Churchill Falls to the Province. He founded and chaired the 2041 Group. He was acknowledged by his peers and the broader community as an expert in constitutional, administrative, Aboriginal and labour law. He was a Master of the Supreme Court, Queen\u2019s Counsel, a past president of the Law Society of NL, long-time member of the Board of NL Hydro appointed by both Conservative and Liberal governments. He was a true legal scholar and one of the most outstanding lawyers of his time. He spent over forty years in Labrador City contributing to the economic and social growth of this great region of the Province. Mr. Hearn was also a past president of Shabogamo Mining. Through this role and the operation of his law practice, he aided in providing jobs in various industries in the community throughout his time here. Mr. Hearn was also a long-time member of the Labrador West Rotary Club and the Labrador West Chamber of Commerce. Socially, Mr. Hearn enjoyed being involved in many activities in the community. He played recreational hockey his entire life in the local league, and he coached hockey in his younger years. He enjoyed both downhill and cross-country skiing and worked pro bono for the local hill Smokey Mountain on a variety of matters.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/George Hudson .webp\",\r\n name: \"George Hudson \",\r\n desc: \"George Hudson was originally from Pinware. As a young man, he relocated to the tiny island community of Black Tickle, further up the Labrador coast. Upon arrival to Black Tickle, he taught in a one-room school, later opening a store there and eventually becoming manager of the fish plant. During all this, he assisted the community in countless ways as an advocate for the residents there. He assisted people with navigating employment systems, housing projects and the overall improvement of the community. He could be found managing the plant, hauling freight to the store, working to ensure the landfill was clean, advocating for the road conditions or sitting quietly with a resident to help with a government form. He developed many friendships in the community by way of hunting and dogteam travel with other men from the community. All this, as impressive as it may be, would pale in comparison to the love he had for his wife, Madeline Keefe from Black Tickle, and the family they raised together.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Jim Kelland .webp\",\r\n name: \"Jim Kelland \",\r\n desc: \"Jim Kelland was born in St. John\u2019s in 1933. He was the elected Liberal MHA for Naskaupi in 1985, and was appointed to cabinet when Premier Clyde K. Wells formed government in 1989. He would later become Minister of the Environment and the Minister responsible for Wildlife and Parks.Jim entered public life in 1974, becoming the first mayor of the amalgamated town of Happy Valley Goose Bay. He served as the mayor of the town until 1985. Before he entered public life, Jim was employed in the communications industry for twenty-five years.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Gordon Manstan .webp\",\r\n name: \"Gordon Manstan \",\r\n desc: \"Gordon Manstan was born in St. John's, Nfld. He was a hardworking man who pursued the entrepreneurial spirit and is the model of generosity. He went to work at the Iron Ore Company of Canada in 1960, and after fourteen years, left the IOC to work full-time on the growth of his own business interests in Labrador West. His entrepreneurial pursuits have focused on rental and retail\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Elizabeth Lolly McGregor.webp\",\r\n name: \"Elizabeth Lolly McGregor\",\r\n desc: \"Elizabeth McGregor was from Wabush. In 1992, she received the Commemorative Medal for the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada in recognition of significant contribution to compatriots, community and to Canada. In 1988, she received the Canadian Tourism Ambassador Certificate from Minister of State Bernard Valcourt for her outstanding hospitality to visitors. Elizabeth also received many Citations of Merit from many local organizations, of which she was a charter member and very involved in community events. She was a charter member of Red Cross, local association of Girl Guides and a Life Member of Legionnaire Branch 57. Elizabeth was the first President of the Twin Town Senior Citizen Group formed in 1981. She went to local school to discuss early days with students, participated in many Winter Carnival and she was an active fundraiser for Minor Hockey Association sports groups. The Town of Wabush presents a Lolly McGregor Memorial Volunteer of the Year Award in her honour at their annual volunteer banquet.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ben (Penote) Michel .webp\",\r\n name: \"Ben (Penote) Michel \",\r\n desc: \"Michel was born on June 28, 1953, to Shimun Michel and Mani-An Michel of Sheshatshiu, Labrador, the fourth child of the twelve who would eventually be born to the couple. The English schools he attended at Sheshatshiu and Wabush gave him bilingual abilities, a skill he would find helpful later in his life. For approximately thirty years, Michel advocated for Innu rights so his people could have control over their lives and their land. He devoted his entire working life to being a political leader and while still in his teen years and early twenties was actively participating in protecting the land and the way of life of his people. He was an active leader in several demonstrations to gain attention to the plight of the Labrador Innu\u2014of particular note is his leadership through the anti-NATO protests. Since those early years, Michel had passionately joined other leaders of the 2,000-member Innu Nation to achieve partnerships with the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador and the federal government. Even before his election as President of the Innu Nation in 2004, he had been at the table of many comprehensive land rights negotiations and participated in numerous protests and evictions of mining companies who had begun development on Innu lands without permission or negotiation.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/William Normore.webp\",\r\n name: \"William Normore\",\r\n desc: \"William Normore was born and raised in L\u2019Anse- au-Loup. As a young man, he went to work for CN Marine as purser on the coastal boats S.S. Springdale and S.S. Northern Ranger. Working and sailing the waters around Labrador and the Island ignited a passion for the sea and for small remote communities. It also solidified his attachment to his birthplace and sparked the spirit of entrepreneurship, as he realized the lack of essential services and the potential for business opportunity. He resigned his position with CN Marine in 1968, and as a young father, returned to reside permanently in L\u2019Anse-au-Loup, where, in partnership with his brother Frank, he began his first business\u2014F&W Normore. Will became a regional distributor for Brookfield Ice Cream, Coca-Cola as well as Carling O\u2019Keefe beer. In the years to follow, he secured a dealership for Bombardier snowmobiles, an agency for the NL Liquor Corporation, and in 1975 became the Superintendent of the Golden Eagle Depot, when it came to L\u2019Anse-au-Loup. Eventually, Golden Eagle became Ultramar, and supplied gasoline and home heating fuel to the Labrador Straits. He later extended this service to other communities and fishing outports in southeastern Labrador and northern Labrador, with the establishment of several oil and gas depots and an oil tanker. During this time, Will also owned and operated various longliners, which he used to collect salmon and transport household and commercial freight along the Labrador coast. In 1984, Normore Enterprises Ltd. was incorporated to continue to build on the business that F&W Normore had established. William Normore Ltd. was incorporated at the same time as Will\u2019s role was evolving with the local Ultramar depot. Both companies continue to operate today, providing products and services to many parts of Labrador, as well as the Lower North Shore of Quebec. They provide employment to his immediate family, extended families, and others who have made Labrador their permanent home. Will served for many years as a town councillor, a member of the Board of Directors for the Eagle River Credit Union, as a Lions Club member, a church vestry member, a school board trustee, and a member of the founding board of the L\u2019Anse-au-Loup Harbour Authority. Will\u2019s love for Labrador was evident in his whole-hearted participation in his business ventures and Labrador life. He was a talented entrepreneur with no formal business training. He gained success through his personal characteristics of endurance and fairness.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Lawrence O\u2019Brien.webp\",\r\n name: \"Lawrence O\u2019Brien\",\r\n desc: \"Lawrence O\u2019Brien was born in L'Anse-au-Loup. Lawrence was an adult education instructor, a public servant, a teacher, a town councillor in Happy Valley-Goose Bay(1985 to 1996) and a Member of Parliament for Labrador(1996-2004). In 1996, Lawrence won the federal Liberal nomination and went on to win the by-election in the riding of Labrador on March 25, vacated by the appointment of Bill Rompkey to the Senate. He became the first Labrador-born Member of Parliament, and he was subsequently re-elected three more times until he died of cancer during his term of office. He served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans from 1999 to 2001. He was a strong supporter of a 2003 constitutional amendment which officially changed the name of the province of Newfoundland to Newfoundland and Labrador. Lawrence was certainly very instrumental behind the scenes in securing funds for the Trans-Labrador Highway and ferry transfers as well as other infrastructure advances in Labrador in the early 2000s. His dedication to Labrador was evident as he carried out his work every day on behalf of Labradorians.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Anthony Paddon .webp\",\r\n name: \"Anthony Paddon \",\r\n desc: \"Anthony Paddon was born in Indian Harbour on July 10, 1914, to Dr. Harry Paddon and Mina Gilchrist, a physician and nurse, respectively, with the Grenfell Mission. Anthony was a notable surgeon and was the seventh Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland where he served from 1981 to 1986. He was the first and only Labradorian to be appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Newfoundland. Like his father, Anthony worked as physician with the International Grenfell Association, serving as the doctor at North West River hospital. He would eventually become the director of the IGA until he retired in 1978.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Harry Paddon.webp\",\r\n name: \"Harry Paddon\",\r\n desc: \"Dr. Henry Paddon was born August 9, 1881, in Thornton Heath, England. Dr. Paddon met Dr. Wilfred Grenfell while he was a missionary on the Royal National Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. His experience with the mission changed his life and he resolved to become a physician. He would later accept an invitation from the Mission to work at its hospital in Indian Harbour. Dr. Paddon embraced Labrador. During the spring and summer, Dr. Paddon would treat thousands of people who were a part of the Labrador fishery. During the winter, he would treat coastal communities in northern Labrador, often reaching them by dog team. Dr. Paddon is remembered for pioneering a range of innovative services for the treatment of tuberculosis and deficiency diseases, including scurvy, in Labrador. He was part of the mission that established some of the earliest permanent medical services in Labrador. His commitment to improving the health of the people of Labrador is not unnoticed. He will also be remembered for penning the Ode to Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Leslie Pardy .webp\",\r\n name: \"Leslie Pardy \",\r\n desc: \"Leslie grew up in Muddy Bay and lived in Cartwright most of his life. He was a hard worker and passionate about Sandwich Bay, his culture, storytelling and writing. Leslie was a trapper, a fisherman, an avid volunteer and worked for the HBC for fifty years. Leslie was also a Ranger for most of his life. He was one of the last households to have a dog team, and throughout his life he was no stranger to long treks, and long yarns as well! Everyone was welcome in his house, or out in the store or on the stage for a chat, and to share his stories, and his catch. Many children in the community were put up by him and his wife, Phoebe Pardy. She kept the house going so Leslie could do his role and she did a lot of work in the community as well. Les was a handyman, well-known for his Sandwich Bay boats, komatiks, and general handiness. He was willing to pitch in and help others with their work and taught others skills and crafts. He encouraged a strong community spirit, and promoted sport in Cartwright a great deal, which included helping secure the first hockey rink. He served on town council for years. Leslie is well-known throughout Labrador as a writer; he wrote dozens of poems, letters, many that show up in Them Days and other publications. Some of those poems have been converted to song by Harry Martin and Labrador Black Spruce. His work extends to pieces in newspapers and appears in many interviews and research and historical accounts as well.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Malcolm Pardy.webp\",\r\n name: \"Malcolm Pardy\",\r\n desc: \"Malcolm spent his entire life in Cartwright, where he was known for his dedication to helping others and serving his community. As Labrador Outreach Manager in the 1970s, he worked with coastal communities to create employment opportunities and helped residents apply for jobs and post-secondary education programs. He also shared Labrador\u2019s history by speaking about his experiences working at the American Military Base and visiting classrooms at Henry Gordon Academy. Malcolm was known for his generosity, often assisting families in need, and spent many hours maintaining the local Anglican cemetery. His lifelong commitment to community service was recognized by the Cartwright Community Council in 2016.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/George & Alexandra Poole.webp\",\r\n name: \"George & Alexandra Poole\",\r\n desc: \"George and Alexandra made lasting contributions to Fox Harbour\/St. Lewis through leadership, service, and advocacy. After moving to Labrador from Carbonear, George managed the Fishery Products store in Fox Harbour for fifteen winters and introduced a fair system for allocating salmon and cod trap berths, benefiting local fishermen. He later documented his experiences in his autobiography, A Lifetime Listening to the Waves: Memories of a Labrador Fisherman. Alexandra served as an unofficial community nurse and midwife, helping deliver more than thirty babies and dedicating over forty years to church service through the Anglican Church Women\u2019s organization. Together, they played a major role in bringing essential services to Fox Harbour\/St. Lewis, including the community\u2019s first school, telephone services, electricity, mail delivery, transportation access, and medical clinics. Their home often served as a hub for visiting doctors, teachers, officials, and community services, reflecting their lifelong commitment to supporting and strengthening their community.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Benjamin Powell, Sr..webp\",\r\n name: \"Benjamin Powell, Sr.\",\r\n desc: \"Ben Powell, Sr. was born in Carbonear, Newfoundland, in 1921. In 1936, he ventured to Labrador in search of a better life, and it was there he found his beloved wife, Effie Campbell, and together they raised ten children. Ben was known as \u201ca man of the North:\u201d a trapper, fisherman, sawmill operator, merchant, fish camp operator and writer. He published nineteen books about life in the Big Land, or as he liked to call it, Canada\u2019s Last Frontier. He was recognized as the founding father of Charlottetown, starting the community in 1950, building a saw mill industry which shipped local pulpwood to Grand Falls, Nfld. This enabled Ben to fulfill his dream of seeing a central community grow to include a school for all the children living scattered throughout St. Michael\u2019s Bay. He named this community Charlottetown, which he hoped to see grow to become a major centre in Labrador\u2019s southeast coast. His lifelong dedication to coastal Labrador is marked by his passion for its rich culture and through his many accomplishments, which included the establishment of educational and health facilities in his community of Charlottetown. In 1996, he received the Order of Canada in recognition of his many contributions to shaping the history of coastal Labrador and beyond. Uncle Ben, as he was affectionately called, passed away on February 6, 2015, just shy of his ninety-fourth birthday.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Frank Pye.webp\",\r\n name: \"Frank Pye\",\r\n desc: \"Rev. Frank W. Pye was born and educated at Mount Moriah, Newfoundland. At sixteen, he began teaching in a one-room all grade school in Pynn\u2019s Brook. He received his BA in Education from Memorial University in 1962, and graduated from Pine Hill Divinity Hall in 1965. He was ordained in the United Church of Canada in the same year. He served the church in Random Island, Port Blandford, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, and Red Bay Pastoral Charges. He worked with the College of the North Atlantic as Director of Extension Services, served on the Federation of Agriculture for ten years and was a long-standing secretary of the Lake Melville Agricultural Association as well as treasurer of the Lake Melville Ministerial Association for seventeen years. Frank was also instrumental in helping form the Labrador Party. Frank and his wife Joyce started Grand River Farm in 1987, which is now housed on Mud Lake Road in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The farm is one of only a handful in the Upper Lake Melville region, and helps supply fresh food to a community which relies heavily on food being brought in from the outside. Frank was known as a man with an adventurous soul, enjoying with zest his downhill skiing, motorcycling, flying and boating. He will be deeply missed but we will fondly remember his compassion, generosity, and love of Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Warrick Pye.webp\",\r\n name: \"Warrick Pye\",\r\n desc: \"Warrick Pye was originally from Lodge Bay. He relocated with his wife Mildred and two children Keith and Maxine to Goose Bay in 1976. He instantly became involved in the children\u2019s activities, becoming a minor hockey coach and mentor for almost six years. He volunteered countless hours to several organizations and was instrumental in the \u201980s with promoting the tourism of Goose Bay and Labrador as a whole. He was dedicated to the organization of the Labrador Canoe Regatta and was a board member for several years. He actively volunteered and served on the Labrador Winter Games committee for several years. In later years, after fighting illness and quadruple bypass surgery, he endlessly gave back to the community by volunteering his time with the Salvation Army Red Cross, soup kitchens, the Roland Shears food drive, and others. He was an ambassador of the community, and he had no fear to walk up to a RV with an out of town plate and introduce himself and promote the land that he called home.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Isaac (Ike) Rich .webp\",\r\n name: \"Isaac (Ike) Rich \",\r\n desc: \"Issac was originally from the Rigolet area, but moved to North West River, Otter Creek, Birch Island, and finally Happy Valley. He was the oldest member in the Company of Young Canadians. He was a guide and trapper. He was the original interviewer and integral part in the establishment of Them Days magazine. The Happy Valley-Goose Bay high school drama group, the Ike Riche Players, was named in his honour in 1978 and has carried on through both Goose High School and Mealy Mountain Collegiate.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/George Roberts.webp\",\r\n name: \"George Roberts\",\r\n desc: \"George Roberts of Norman Bay, was born on May 16, 1953. George was a member of the NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC) who spent countless years volunteering, advocating, and contributing to the betterment of his community and the communities of others. \u201cGeorge Roberts was a man whose heart and soul was in doing good for his community and all of Labrador. George was such a persistent and respectful advocate and we are proud to honour him by naming these grants in his memory,\u201d said NCC President Russell. The NCC started a community grant program named after George which supports the social, physical, and mental well-being of its communities. George attended all of the Combined Councils of Labrador meetings and advocated for infrastructure and survival of the community. He served on the Local Service District for most of his life.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Bill Rompkey.webp\",\r\n name: \"Bill Rompkey\",\r\n desc: \"Hon. Bill Rompkey of Belleoram, NL, was born on May 13, 1936. Bill was a politician, but first and foremost an educator. Bill received his BA and MA in Education from Memorial University. He was awarded Alumnus of the Year at Memorial University in 1980 and later an Honorary Doctorate. Bill began teaching in St. John\u2019s but soon moved to Labrador with his wife Carolyn. Bill would later become the principal of the Yale School in North West River and then the first Superintendent of Education with the Labrador East Integrated School Board. In 1972, while working on his PhD at the University of Toronto, he won the Liberal nomination for Grand Falls-White Bay-Labrador, representing Labrador in the House of Commons. First elected in 1972, he was undefeated in six subsequent elections and served in the cabinets of Rt. Hon. Pierre Trudeau and Rt. Hon. John Turner. Bill was a tireless advocate for Labrador, a land he held so dear. Appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1995 by the Rt. Hon. Jean Chretien representing Labrador, Bill served as Whip and Deputy Leader of the Government, as well as Chair of the Fisheries Committee. In 2011, he retired at age seventy-five, leaving Parliament Hill after almost forty years of service. Bill was a true Labradorian whose public service helped build and shape Labrador to what it is today. We are forever grateful for his service.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Raymond Rumbolt.webp\",\r\n name: \"Raymond Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"Raymond Rumbolt is from Mary\u2019s Harbour and was one of the founding members of the Coastal Labrador Development Association. He served on Combined Councils of Labrador and was a long-serving member of the Labrador School Board when it was under the Goose Bay office. He was a long-serving Mayor of Mary\u2019s Harbour, so dedicated that the town recreation centre is named in his honour. He served on the Board of Directors of Labrador Shrimp Company and he was also a project manager for many winter works programs. Raymond spent countless hours assisting others with unemployment forms, income tax forms and various other programs when there was no assistance along the Labrador coast. He was a member of the Anglican Church and volunteered many hours in constructing the new church in Mary\u2019s Harbour.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Doris Saunders.webp\",\r\n name: \"Doris Saunders\",\r\n desc: \"Doris Saunders was born in Cartwright in 1941, and was the second child of six. She later moved to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. In 1975, she was hired by the Labrador Heritage Society to publish a booklet containing oral histories of people from Labrador. Doris went on to publish Them Days as a quarterly magazine. In 1986, she was inducted as a member of the Order of Canada. She was also given an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Memorial University in 1994. Doris was also known for her award-winning embroidery. She presented Queen Elizabeth II a piece of her embroidery during her royal visit to Labrador in the 1990s.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Regula Schule.webp\",\r\n name: \"Regula Schule\",\r\n desc: \"Born in Zurich in 1928, Regula moved to Makkovik in 1967 and dedicated her life to serving others in Labrador. Before arriving, she worked as a teacher in Switzerland, including with children with disabilities, and was actively involved in church and youth leadership. After coming to Labrador through missionary work with the Moravian Church, Regula taught in North West River and later adopted an Inuit child in 1982. She served for many years in the Happy Valley Moravian Church, performing marriages, baptisms, funerals, and visiting hospital patients. She also read Inuktitut to Inuit elders. Regula was actively involved with the Mokami Status of Women Council, Special Olympics, and supported inmates and individuals in need, often opening her home to those with nowhere else to go. Her lifelong compassion and service left a lasting impact on Labrador communities.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/John Shiwak .webp\",\r\n name: \"John Shiwak \",\r\n desc: \"John Shiwak of Cul-de-Sac, near Rigolet in Labrador, was a decorated Lance Corporal of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. John was the eldest of nine children and son to John Shiwak and Sarah Oliver. He worked as a trapper and hunter at the Hudson\u2019s Bay Company to help support his large family. John had a particular talent of watching seals that would be a great asset to him during the war. John was noted as an exceptional marksman and scout. He was recognized for his impeccable accuracy as a sharpshooter. One officer stated that John was the best sniper in the British Army. John was also fondly remembered by his troop. Shy, reserved, but friendly, John was not only a great shot but an honourable and courageous man. On November 21, 1917, John died on the battlefield during the battle of Cambrai. John, like many young men, courageously fought and sacrificed their lives in the First World War for our freedom and his actions will not be forgotten.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hank Shouse.webp\",\r\n name: \"Hank Shouse\",\r\n desc: \"Hank Shouse greatly influenced the people in the Upper Lake Melville area for more than forty years in many aspects of community life, including community services, arts and recreation. One of his most notable pursuits was the creation of the Trans-Labrador Highway, which effectively saw the wilderness opened up to a transportation route that has affected the lives of numerous Labradorians. In his early years in North West River, he was instrumental in obtaining a cable car as an alternate mode of transportation across the river. He also influenced the building of an outdoor rink in North West River, constructed an airstrip for small aircraft, and forged the creation of Snow Goose Mountain. Mr. Shouse was very active in municipal politics, serving as councillor, deputy mayor and mayor in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. He was an active member of the Joint Councils of Labrador, the board of directors of the Federation of Municipalities on both provincial and national levels. He also served on the board of directors of the Goose Bay Airport Corporation and the board of the Northern Postal Corporation. The youth in the community have been positively impacted by Mr. Shouse\u2019s dedication as an advocate for various programs and causes. Over the years, he operated a school bus business and carved a place in the hearts of the children he transported. He contributed to the school system through various means,\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Redgeway Snook .webp\",\r\n name: \"Redgeway Snook \",\r\n desc: \" Redgeway was born July 21, 1925, at Trap Cove, Labrador. That\u2019s where he grew up until he went to St. Anthony for grade eleven. Reg went away to be a teacher when he was seventeen years old. He went to St. John\u2019s for two summers. The teachers then had to go to two places\u2014one for five months and then another place for five months. The first place he taught was William\u2019s Harbour, the second was St. Lewis. After teaching there for two years he went to Henley Harbour and taught for three years. Then in Battle Harbour for a year and in Trap Cove for two years before finally settling in Mary\u2019s Harbour. In 1954, the Snook family moved to Mary\u2019s Harbour, and Reg used recycled wood bought from the Grenfell Mission for $300 to build the first home on the east side of the harbour. Reg retired from teaching a few years later to work in the family fishing operation and to operate a store in Mary\u2019s Harbour. He also served as Justice of the Peace in the community for forty years. Redgeway was a fixture in the community, always helping and willing to lend a hand or to help teach anyone that needed help learning something. He was a leader in our community, a business person, and historian.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Hazel Thomas.webp\",\r\n name: \"Hazel Thomas\",\r\n desc: \"Hazel was born November 30, 1921, at L\u2019Anse-au- Clair to Louisa Letto. She didn\u2019t know her father but found out later that he was from Bonne Bay and died when she was two years old. She lived with her mother and grandparents until she went out to work at age thirteen as a serving girl for Aunt Alice Dumaresque. She married Raymond Thomas in 1938, and they raised four boys: Clyde, Eric, Sam and Dennis. Raymond was a fisherman and for many years he and Hazel also ran a grocery\/general store. He died in a plane crash in 1968 coming from St. Paul\u2019s River to Blanc Sablon. Hazel ran the store for a while after his death but later went to work at the youth hostel for two years. The youth hostel took in young people who travelled to Labrador from all over the world. In 1975, she went to work for The Northern Light Inn for eleven years and retired at sixty-five. Hazel was the longest standing member of the Anglican Church Women (ACW). She joined this group at twelve years of age. She was also on the Church Vestry, the Hospital Auxiliary, Come Home Year Committee and she acted in a play for a dinner theatre at the hotel. This was a play about life in L\u2019Anse-au-Clair in 1949, and she acted in that play for three years. She often cooked and quilted and sewed for friend\u2019s family and for fundraising for festivals and events. She was always helping out in the community and a wealth of knowledge.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mary Voisey .webp\",\r\n name: \"Mary Voisey \",\r\n desc: \"Mary was born in Fort Chimo, Quebec, in 1926; however, her family moved to Sango Bay, Labrador, when she was a child. Mary was a very talented craftsperson, known mostly for her skill in beadwork and slipper-making. Mary learned the craft from her mother, Charlotte Edmunds. When Mary was a young woman, her grandfather, David Edmunds, and her father would order their winter food supplies from Ayers & Sons in St. John\u2019s. Mary and her sisters would send them fully beaded slippers in return for materials or nylons and they would always send what they wanted. Mary met Edward Voisey and married in Hopedale in 1945. Soon after, they moved to Goose Bay where Edward worked during the construction of 5-Wing Goose Bay. Mary\u2019s crafts soon became a highly sought-after product by the military\u2014she sold slippers, mukluks, coats, mitts, most had beadwork and embroidery. Not only did she sell her craft from her home, she provided the local craft shops with a lot of her craft. Mary was hired by the Labrador Craft Producers Association in the \u201980s and taught the craft of parka-, slipper- and mitt-making, as well as beading and embroidery along the north and south coast of Labrador. There are woman who continue to sew today that learned the craft from Mary and, like her, they supplement their income. Mary passed along her skill and talent to her daughter Clara who excels in beadwork and her son Mike who also is as talented as his mother in sewing. In the last years of Mary\u2019s life, she resided at the Paddon Home in Goose Bay, where she still had the passion to make slippers. Her \u201chobby\u201d piqued the interest of a lot of staff who would come in to see Mary during their days off to learn how to bead and sew. There are some of Mary\u2019s pupils who are passing along the trade to their own pupils today.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Beatrice Watts.webp\",\r\n name: \"Beatrice Watts\",\r\n desc: \"Beatrice Watts of Black Island was an educator who would become the first woman mayor in Labrador. Beatrice\u2019s list of accomplishments is long. As an educator, Beatrice integrated Inuktitut into her classroom, often adapting materials as need be. She would eventually become principal at Yale School in North West River, where she would become responsible for initiating classes in Inuktitut and training Native teachers. Beatrice was highly concerned for the plight of women and served as a member of the Canadian Advisory Council on the Status of Women and as the President of the Native Women\u2019s Association. Through her travels with the School Board, Beatrice was able to meet many women across different communities and always supported and encouraged them to affirm their identity and culture. Beatrice was proud of her bilingualism, biculturalism, and Labrador heritage. We are forever grateful for the strides she made in women's rights and addressing social injustice within Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ace Wentzell .webp\",\r\n name: \"Ace Wentzell \",\r\n desc: \"Asaph \u2018Ace\u2019 Frederick Wentzell was born at Daniel\u2019s Harbour, Newfoundland, in 1930. When he was eight, his family moved to Hawke Bay, Labrador, and stayed until 1948. He settled finally in Charlottetown in 1958, and married Maude Williams. Ace learned to hunt and trap and fish and loved the Labrador way of life. He worked for Fisheries and Oceans, and started his own logging operation in Charlottetown employing local people. Those who know Uncle Asaph Wentzell will know what good company is found in his house. He had a rich humour and an unending fund of anecdotes and stories which he gladly shared along with the culture he adopted in Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Henry John Williams.webp\",\r\n name: \"Henry John Williams\",\r\n desc: \"You can\u2019t talk about dog teaming in Labrador without remembering this man because he is kind of an icon in the dog team transportation system. Not only did he use the dog team for decades as an individual to get around Labrador and to do his work, hunting and trapping, but in the later years, he introduced dog teaming to southern Labrador as a competitive sport. While he was never a man to be overly competitive himself, he was the oldest man to race a dog team in the Labrador Winter Games in Labrador; that very race is now named after him in memorial. Henry was a storyteller, a singer, and a poet\/songwriter. His teachings were vital in a time of change for the community, maintaining the old ways through passing on stories and skills to the next generation. He also fished during the summers, and even had a small crew to help with the fishing and collecting. He was well-known up and down the coast, and in the interior of Labrador.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Albert \u201cBertie\u201d Winters.webp\",\r\n name: \"Albert \u201cBertie\u201d Winters\",\r\n desc: \"Uncle Bertie, as he was known, was from Makkovik. Over the years, he used his fishing vessel, the Viola Dee to collect fish from people along the coast in small fishing areas. He then went on to be a prominent crab fisherman. He also hunted seals to collect samples for the DFO for a number of years. Mr. Winters was a respected and well-known Inuit elder who lived a traditional lifestyle right up until his passing. He was a strong advocate for his community and for the rights of Inuit, and was never shy to offer his opinion or to provide advice. While he earned his living as a fisherman, Mr. Winters also maintained dog teams and regularly hunted and harvested wood to support his family and others in the community. Mr. Winters was a larger-than-life person who was a big part of many people\u2019s lives for many years. May his family and friends find comfort in knowing that he lived a full life and that he leaves behind a tremendous legacy.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Malcolm \u201cMax\u201d Winters.webp\",\r\n name: \"Malcolm \u201cMax\u201d Winters\",\r\n desc: \"Max Winters of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, originally Makkovik, was known for his social contributions through sports and volunteering with numerous organizations. While coaching various age groups, he held a variety of executive positions with the Lake Melville Minor Hockey Association, including serving as President twice and Vice-President on several occasions. Max served as President of the Happy Valley-Goose Bay Minor Softball program 1969-1972, 1990-1992 and 2000-2002. He coached numerous female softball teams for the Newfoundland and Labrador Summer Games, including 1976, 1980 and 1984 (silver medal). He also served as the Northern Vice-President with Softball NL. Max was the Committee Chair and co-creator for the Labrathon in the Labrador Winter Games, and he was the 2006 Labrador Winter Games patron. He served as Manager of the 1990-91 Labrador Huskies AAA Midget hockey team, chair and committee member of the Happy Valley-Goose Bay Winter Carnival, Melville Hospital In-Patient Committee, Labrador Inuit Development Corporation Board from 1984\u20132000, Labrador Inuit Association Board of Directors from 2000\u20132002. He was the recipient of the 2001 Newfoundland and Labrador Volunteer Pitcher Plant award, 2001 Newfoundland and Labrador Volunteer Medal for the Lake Melville area, Happy Valley-Goose Bay Community Awards in the Builder Category in 1999, 2001 Newfoundland and Labrador Aboriginal Coach of the Year. His other honours include induction into the NL Softball Hall of Fame in 1984 and the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2007, and he was awarded the 2012 Queen\u2019s Jubilee Medal. Max was also chair of the committee which established the Happy Valley- Goose Bay Ground Search and Rescue Project.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Mel Woodward.webp\",\r\n name: \"Mel Woodward\",\r\n desc: \"The son of Joseph Woodward and Jennie Brewer-Scanlon, Mel was born in North Boat Harbour and was educated there and in Cook\u2019s Harbour. In 1957, he moved to Goose Bay to work at the United States Air Force base. He set up his own fuel delivery business there, also becoming involved in transportation, construction and automobile sales in the area. He was a director for the Bank of Canada, a founding member and president of the Labrador North Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Board of Regents for Memorial University, chair of the St. John\u2019s Port Corporation and chair for the Enterprise Development Board for Industry, Trade and Commerce. In 2001, he was named to the Newfoundland and Labrador Business Hall of Fame. He represented Labrador North in the Newfoundland House of Assembly from 1971 to 1975. He served briefly in the Newfoundland cabinet as Minister of Labrador Affairs.\"\r\n },\r\n\r\n\r\n ];\r\n\r\n\r\n const people2018 = [{\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Dr. William Edward Arsenault\",\r\n desc: \"Dr. William Edward Arsenault ,retired medical physician of Labrador City NL \"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Darrel Brenton \",\r\n desc: \"Born as a Newfoundlander, Darrel moved to Labrador City in August of 1971 as a young man to work in the mining industry like many others. However, unlike many others, through a full career and into retirement, he showed never ending care for the people of his community. At work he was a HSE Technician and was always ready to advocate for others. For many years and to this day, Darrel continues to volunteer many countless hours to the Labrador West community. Years ago Darrel was the Chairman of the Labrador City Carnival Committee where he would help plan out and organize fun activities. He was a volunteer on the USW 5795 Bingo committee. He served on the Labrador City town council for 20 years and out of those 20 years he was Mayor for 13 of them. Today he\u2019s a member of the Lions Club where he does fundraising and visits the sick at the Labrador West Health Care Center on most Sundays handing out treats. He also volunteers for the Wabush Legion calling out Bingo on Sunday nights. He volunteers his time on the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association for the Labrador West Chapter. And last but certainly not the least, he volunteers his time doing fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society for the Daffodil Place in St. John\u2019s.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Louisa Cabot\",\r\n desc: \"Louisa Cabot, nee Glynn was born in the community of Lanse Au Diable, Labrador November 17th, 1883. She was the daughter of Edward Glynn and Mary Ann Henry. She and her husband, John Cabot adopted Joseph John Cabot, born October 4th, 1910. In addition, she raised Nellie McDonald (sister of Alfred Marshall), and \u2018took in\u2019 and nurtured Alice Lowe (mother of Ruby, Peter, Stuart, Sammy, Irene, Margaret and Lucy ) for an indefinite number of years. She lived her entire life in coastal Labrador in the communities of Lanse Au Diable and West St. Modest respectively and was known as a \u2018good woman\u2019, wife and mother. Like many women on the coast of Labrador, she was multitalented. She sewed clothes, quilted, knitted, crafted sealskin boots, made cotton duck anoraks and pants, helped with the fishery, cooked, baked, gardened vegetable, raised chickens, and was a good at balancing a budget (she turned over a dime ten times before she spent it). While fulfilling all of the above roles, Louisa Cabot, otherwise known as \u201cAunt Lou\u201d simultaneously provided a valuable service to families in her community and surrounding communities in her role as a midwife, the role for which she\u2019s being nominated. For decades, her skills in midwifery were sought after and held in the highest regard by people around her. The story goes that \u2018Aunt Lou\u201d was called upon whenever a new baby was due, and she was faithful in being there regardless of weather conditions. In winter she travelled by dog team and in summer by boat and walking. Whatever the mode of transportation, she was a steadfast presence to be relied upon during these miraculous occasions. Sometimes these outings lasted for days and days. Often, during prolonged deliveries, when the beds were all filled in the house, she would make up a bed on the kitchen table and would sleep there for however long her services were needed. Once during another delivery, she kept a baby alive by wrapping the boy in flannelette and placing him in a baking pan in the open oven, using the oven as an incubator. The baby lived! She delivered two hundred plus babies in her lifetime, including the twelve children of her son, John and his wife Elizabeth, all twelve children of Alfred and Gertie Marshall, and the babies of numerous other families in Lanse Au Diable, West St. Modest, Capstain Island, and Pinware. Louisa Cabot delivered her last baby in 1957; she was then 71 years old. She was a remarkable woman.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Margaret Goudie- Parsons\",\r\n desc: \"Margaret Goudie Parsons has dedicated much of her life to preserving and sharing the history, culture, and way of life of Birch Island, Newfoundland and Labrador. A proud daughter of Labrador and former resident of Birch Island, she continues to ensure that the stories and traditions of her community are remembered following the relocation of residents in 1968. Her writing about Birch Island has been published in Our Canada, Them Days, The Labradorian, Labrador Life, Yuletide, and The Evening Telegram. She was also featured in Word and became the first representative on the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Board of Directors. In 2006, her story My Sophisticated Suit was selected for publication in My Wedding Dress, an anthology by Vintage Canada and later printed by Random House Canada, making her the only contributor from Newfoundland and Labrador. Margaret has also shared her experiences through speaking engagements, interviews with Memorial University of Newfoundland students, and volunteer work with the Birch Island Project Historical Committee. Her ongoing efforts continue to preserve the legacy of Birch Island for future generations.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Helen Hickey\",\r\n desc: \"Helen Hickey has demonstrated a lifetime of strength, faith, entrepreneurship, and service to the community of Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Sixty-one years ago, she relocated with her husband and young son from Birch Island to build a new life in Labrador. After the United States Air Force lease expired in 1972, Helen and her husband founded their own construction business from their family kitchen. While raising six children, Helen managed bookkeeping, payroll, and daily office operations. The business later expanded and remains family-owned today, continuing to provide employment in the community. Helen has also dedicated many years to volunteer service. She served on the Roman Catholic School Board for twelve years, helping shape educational opportunities for Labrador\u2019s youth. She remains actively involved in her church as a member of the Catholic Women\u2019s League, choir, lector ministry, Eucharistic ministry, and collections team. An active member of the 50 Plus Club, Helen continues to inspire others through her energy, commitment to healthy living, and unwavering dedication to her community. Her lifelong service and leadership have made a lasting impact in Happy Valley-Goose Bay.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Edmund Montague\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Eric O'Brien\",\r\n desc: \"Eric O\u2019Brien, from L\u2019Anse Au Loup, had a strong sense of community and commitment to the Labrador Straits. Eric was a life-long fisherman and captain. He was a well-known skipper on the Labrador coast, whose love of the fishery was easily recognizable. Throughout his commitment to the fishery, Eric served as Vice- President of the Labrador South Fishery. He was also a Director on the board of the Labrador Fisherman\u2019s Union Shrimp Company Limited in its early establishment. Eric also served as President of the local Fishermen\u2019s Committee and was a member of the Shrimp Committee in the Labrador Straits. In connection with his involvement with the fishery, he also served as a member of the L\u2019Anse Au Loup Harbor Authority. Hard working and industrious, Eric was also a leader in his community. As a respected member of his community, he served on the L\u2019Anse Au Loup Town Council for more than 18 years. He also was a long serving member of the L\u2019Anse Au Loup Lions Club. In his numerous roles, Eric was a member of the L\u2019Anse Au Loup Fire Brigade, of which he was Fire Chief for a number of year. In addition to his involvement in the fishery and his community of L\u2019Anse Au Loup, Eric was also committed to the Labrador Straits and the surrounding area. Eric was a member of Our Lady of Labrador School Council and a member of Our Lady of Labrador Parish Steering Committee. His long-term dedication could also be seen by his 25 year membership in the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Thomas Paul Pye\",\r\n desc: \"Thomas Paul Pye was an advocate volunteer in the community of lodge Bay plus he sat on committees such as Battle Harbour Development Association, Eagle River Credit Union Board of directors and Lodge Bay Local Service District. Sadly he passed away in 2010 but I feel he still should be recognized for the many hours of volunteer time he did gracefully\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Frances Frieda Williams\",\r\n desc: \"Fran (Freida) Williams of Nain grew up in Hopedale, and as a child battled TB in St. Anthony,completed High School in Residential School in North West River, and went on to be a fully qualified nurse fifty years ago in the days when few left Labrador to study and there was no financial support. After marrying and starting a family in Goose Bay, Fran was suddenly left a young widow with a child. Already involved in Community development by working in projects sponsored by the Status of Women and the Company of Young Canadians Fran decided to move back to the coast. In 1980 Fran's next life change was to leave her Hopedale family and move to Nain as the newly elected first female President of the Labrador Inuit Association, a position she held for four years. Her next challenge was to become Director of the newly formed OKalakatiget (Communications) Society. In this role , Fran organized productions for radio and television focusing on sharing Labrador Inuit heritage and culture. As well, a magazine was published for a number of years. Throughout all this period, Fran's focus was on helping her people and promoting the Inuit language. As well during this time, Fran was happily remarried to Brian Williams, with whom she continued to enjoy her culture , her two homes and now also his home in Australia. Now retired, Fran spends her time between Hopedale and Nain,enjoying her family in both communities. She is still actively volunteering with the Moravian Church, with Seniors, and remains involved in events in Nunatsiavut. Her contribution is immeasurable.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"George Way \",\r\n desc: \"George Way, originally from Rigolet and a longtime resident of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, has made meaningful contributions to his community through his generosity, creativity, and lifelong service. Known for his remarkable sense of humour, George brings joy to those around him through his kindness, laughter, and ability to brighten any gathering. He has also shared his love of music by performing at community events, churches, and fundraisers, often entertaining others with his guitar and original songs. A passionate photographer, George has captured Labrador\u2019s beauty and important moments through images that are displayed in many homes and public spaces. His photography has helped preserve memories and celebrate the region\u2019s culture and history. George has dedicated many years to firefighting, serving both as a professional and volunteer firefighter and assisting in forest fire response efforts. His commitment to protecting others has been a lifelong passion. He is also deeply connected to Labrador\u2019s land, traditions, and community events, actively supporting initiatives such as the Labrador Canoe Regatta and regularly participating in local traditions. Through his service, creativity, generosity, and community spirit, George continues to make a lasting impact in Labrador every day.\"\r\n },\r\n ];\r\n\r\n const people2019 = [{\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"William Greyson Crowley \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Todd Kent\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Lucy Pike \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Craig Porter \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Mark Nui \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Toby Obed\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Barbara Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Claude Rumbolt \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Mabel Russell \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Barbara Wood \",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n ];\r\n\r\n const people2020 = [{\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Tobey Obed\",\r\n desc: \"In 2008, when the federal government excluded Labrador residential school survivors from its apology and settlement, Toby Obed emerged as one of the first voices to advocate for fair treatment and recognition for survivors in Labrador. At the age of three, Toby was taken from his family by Social Services and placed in the Infants Home, and later the Junior Dorm, in North West River. He spent much of his childhood in institutions and foster homes, enduring abuse and the loss of family and cultural connections. Later in life, he survived a near-death experience that resulted in the loss of two limbs. Despite these hardships, Toby demonstrated remarkable resilience and became a leading advocate for justice. He played a central role in the Newfoundland and Labrador residential school court case that led to a settlement agreement for survivors. He also represented Labrador survivors on the national stage when he accepted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s apology on behalf of boarding school survivors. Toby\u2019s leadership was also recognized through the research and documentation of residential school history in A Long Journey: Residential Schools in Labrador and Newfoundland, published by ISER Books in 2020. His determination to hold institutions accountable and bring national attention to Labrador\u2019s residential school history has had a lasting impact. Through his courage, resilience, and advocacy, Toby Obed has helped ensure that the voices and experiences of Labrador residential school survivors are recognized and remembered.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Todd Kent\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Barbara Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Claude Rumbolt\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Mabel Russell\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Craig Porter\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Lucy Pike\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Mark Nui\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"William Grayson Crowley\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Barbara Wood\",\r\n desc: \"\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: null,\r\n name: \"Ernest Condon\",\r\n desc: \"Ernest Condon (Ern to everyone who knew him) was born in Calvert, NL. He began his teaching career in this area of the island, where he also coached the wrestling team, and led them to championships. He would later teach in other parts of the province, where he would meet Emerson and Donna Coish (who would become lifelong friends and family). Donna and Emerson would go on to invite Ern (and his wife Eileen) to join them at Joseph R. Smallwood Collegiate in Wabush, Labrador as staff members. Ern became the Guidance Councillor, a position he would stay in until his retirement. Ern and Eileen raised 5 children in Labrador. He would go on to bring friends and family (mostly teachers) to Labrador, who would raise families themselves. Ern served on the Council of Labrador City, and was the Deputy Mayor of Wabush. In 2003, Ern rejuvenated the Labrador Party, along with other public servants. Ern served as the first leader of the newly reformed party, whose goal was to bring attention to the region and its people, who they felt were being ignored by the government of Newfoundland. Ern's goal was to help give a voice to people who historically had no voice in the government, specifically the native population of Labrador. This had been a lifelong goal of his, and would continue to be his mission his whole life. His house became a destination to native people who needed a place to stay while travelling through Labrador. Ern retired and left Labrador eventually. But his mission to help people never ended. He would go on to teach in Nunavut after his retirement. He continued his mission in Ottawa, where he helped people from Newfoundland who were in town for heart transplants, to feel at home in a strange city. Ern died at home on December 10th at the age of 77, surrounded by family. When asked by Ottawa Citizen reporter Kelly Egan Was he often persistent?, Eileen Condon replied That should be his middle name. He would go to the ends of the earth to do things for other people. And it was never about what it would bring to him, only others. Labrador West, and Labrador as a whole, would not be what it now is without the kindness and compassion shown by Ern to all Labradorians, and to everybody he ever met.\"\r\n },\r\n ];\r\n\r\n const people2024 = [{\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/M. Terry Clarke.webp\",\r\n name: \"M. Terry Clarke\",\r\n desc: \"For the past 26 years, M. Terry Clarke spent his days at the rink as a minor hockey coach. He began his coaching journey in 1993 when his sons, Scott and Matthew began playing the game. Terry's love for the game and for youth development is proved by him relentlessly advocating for fair play in youth sports. He served 12 years on the Labrador West Minor Hockey Board and then went on to spend 12 years on the Hockey NL Board advocating for the Labrador region. Afterwards, Terry was on the appeals committee for Hockey NL where he ensured that Labrador would have a voice. The Major Midget League is a league many of our athletes thrive to play in, yet were unable to because there are no teams in Labrador. Terry spent countless hours fighting to bring teams back to Labrador and in 2005, the Labrador Huskies were back in play and were able to compete in the league. Throughout his minor hockey career, Terry received many awards such as the Otto Peters Award, Roger Darrigan Award and also, the Hockey NL Minor Council Northern Meritorious Award for the 2013-2014 season. Not only was Terry involved in youth sport, in 2009 he created a local men's team that travelled and competed at the provincial, eastern and world level. His greatest accomplishments with ball hockey was when he coached and managed the team in 2016 and brough them to Germany to compete in the ISBHF World Cup for Club Teams where they placed 4th. The team represented Canada. Terry's devotion for the sport has created an interest by the younger generation, which many, have now played for the provincial and even the national team. Furthermore, Terry was part of a group which brought back the Senior's Men's Hockey League. An initiative greatly appreciated by the community and the local minor hockey league. Volunteering runs in Terry\u2019s\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Karl Hiscock & Fran.webp\",\r\n name: \"Karl Hiscock & FranHiscock\",\r\n desc: \"Fran (1934 to 2021) was involved in the community, as head organizer for fund raising for the Canadian Cancer Society in the late 1970s. She was also a strong supporter of her husband. Karl\u2019s accomplishments would not have been possible without the support of Fran. Karl (1934-2004) was the 80th man hired by IOC in April 1959, when it was just a camp. No women were permitted. As a result Karl had to leave Fran with their two oldest children when they were toddlers in Corner Brook until Fran moved up there in December 1960. Karl\u2019s contributions to the community of Labrador City were considerable. He served on the original Local Improvement District (later Town Council) from its inception in 1961. He continued to serve until he retired in 1989, after 30 years with the company. He became chair of the LID in the late 1970s. In 1982 he was the first elected mayor of Labrador City. As well as serving in municipal politics, Karl was president of the Carole Curling Club on two different occasions. He started tin can curling for the kids in the 60s. He refereed a ton of hockey and umpired a lot of softball. Karl played an integral role during the negotiations in the late 1970s when IOC was divesting itself on its active role in the management of activities in Labrador City, and was the chairman of the Winter Carnival. Karl was undoubtedly a mentor to some other pretty prominent community builders. And while very influential to so many, he was a self-effacing guy.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/William Campbell.webp\",\r\n name: \"William Campbell\",\r\n desc: \"Bill arrived in Labrador around 1958-1959. He was a geologist with IOCC at their Schefferville operation but spent the summers in a tent doing exploration drilling in the Carol Lake area of Labrador. Carol Lake was later renamed Labrador City. He moved permanently to Labrador City in 1960 and was very involved in the development of the community. Bill helped to develop the Carol Curling Club, Smokey Mtn Ski Club and Tamarack Golf Club (he was president of all 3 clubs at some time during his life in LC). During the course of his life, Bill was also involved in the following committees or organizations: Appointed \u2018Chairman of the Local Improvement District\u201d for the Town of Labrador City (precursor to the position of Mayor), President of the NL Branch of the Canadian Institute of Mines and Metallurgy, Chairman of the Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal for many years, Board of Regents for Memorial University, Aide de Camp for Lieutenant Governor Mr. Gordon Winter, Chair of the School Board for the private schools that were developed in Labrador City before Dept of Education took over, and Chair of the Captain Wm Jackman Memorial Hospital Board. Bill passed away in 1989 at the age of 54. The town of Labrador City honoured him by naming a street after him. Campbell Drive was officially named in 1990 and his wife Sue unveiled the street.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Fraser Drover.webp\",\r\n name: \"Fraser Drover\",\r\n desc: \"Fraser Drover has lived in Labrador City for more than 30 years. Here is a short list of deeds and accomplishments with his name in tribute: Loving family team member and excellent father figure. Provides housing for low-income earners. Business man with multiple contractual obligations all across the province. Principal and teacher for over 30 years in Labrador West. Karate instructor and competitor for NL. With countless volunteered hours and pledges for peace and love, Fraser has shown to many of us his undying love of Labrador West, and he deserves to be honored for his hard work and dedication.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Chuck Porter.webp\",\r\n name: \"Chuck Porter\",\r\n desc: \"Chuck Porter has been Conservation Officer with the province's Forestry & Wildlife Division for over 25 years and is the district supervisor in Wabush. Originally from Central NL, Chuck has spent most of his adult like in Labrador West, raising two children. Throughout his career he has been the subject of many awards and achievements, such as serving as the president of the Provincial Conservation Officers Association. He continues everyday to make a significant impact on the department and on Labrador's vast natural resources, serving in addition to his regular duties, as the province's only chemical immobilization instructor (and one of only a handful in Canada (veterinarians excluded)). This is a program which saves hundreds, if not thousands of animals every year across the province and keeps communities safe. His work in enforcing hunting regulations has directly contributed to preserving one of Labrador's most valuable resources - the caribou. On more than one occasion, Chuck has gone above and beyond to help protect the residents of Labrador West - whether it be raging forest fires like in 2013, or major rabies outbreaks like in 2012. Chuck is always willing to reach out and help his neighbours. Outside of his regular job, Chuck is well-known in western Labrador and is very much a local celebrity. He is truly a jack-of-all-trades and is an avid outdoorsman. His recent endeavor into a online series known as Everything Outdoors showcases everything the Labrador West back country has to offer, and has drawn hundreds of thousands of viewers from all over the world, which has made a significant contribution to tourism in Labrador. Chuck is a true professional, and the residents of Labrador West should be proud and thankful to have such a dedicated individual serving them.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Susan Campbell.webp\",\r\n name: \"Susan Campbell\",\r\n desc: \"Sue came to Labrador City as a young bride from NB. She was on the executive of Smokey Mountain Ski Club. She was on the Library Board, the local arts council that advocated for the Arts and Culture Center in Labrador City, and on the Dominion Store advisory board. She worked with the groups that her children were involved in - Polaris Figure Skating Club and Smokey Mtn Race Team. Sue moved to Labrador City in 1961 from Rothesay, NB. She became very active in the development of the new community of Labrador City. So much so that in 1977 the Canadian Institute of Minin and Metallurgy awarded her the Sancta Barbara medal in recognition of her continuous efforts to improve the style of life in a remote community by initiation of action to form Ladies' Community activities. The Sancta Barbara medal was presented to her during the annual convention in Ottawa of that year. Sue was involved in the following committees during her life in Labrador City: Treasurer of the Smokey Mtn Ski Club; Treasurer of CJM Hospital Ladies Auxiliary and gift shop volunteer; Founding member of the Carol Ladies Community Club - a meeting place for the wives of new residents so that they might more easily integrate into the local life; Member of the steering committee of the Labrador West Arts Council (associated with the Provincial Culture Affairs Dept); Consumer Advisory Council - Sue contacted Dominion Stores re their local operations and as a result of their investigation a local advisory committee was started to advise them on local consumer problems; Was Lady-inWaiting to Mrs. Gordon Winter when Mr. Gordon Winter was Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador; Menihek Integrated High School Advisory Committee. Sue got involved with most of the activities that her children were involved in. She either sat on a committee or coordinated events. She embraced her life in the north and taught her children to do so as well. Sue left Labrador City in 1989 after the death of her husband and returned to her home town. She passed away in 1991 at the age of 50.\"\r\n },\r\n ];\r\n\r\n const people2021 = [\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Ernest condon.webp\",\r\n name: \"Ernest Condon\",\r\n desc: \"Ernest Condon (Ern to everyone who knew him) was born in Calvert, NL. He began his teaching career in this area of the island, where he also coached the wrestling team, and led them to championships. He would later teach in other parts of the province, where he would meet Emerson and Donna Coish (who would become lifelong friends and family). Donna and Emerson would go on to invite Ern (and his wife Eileen) to join them at Joseph R. Smallwood Collegiate in Wabush, Labrador as staff members. Ern became the Guidance Councillor, a position he would stay in until his retirement. Ern and Eileen raised 5 children in Labrador. He would go on to bring friends and family (mostly teachers) to Labrador, who would raise families themselves. Ern served on the Council of Labrador City, and was the Deputy Mayor of Wabush. In 2003, Ern rejuvenated the Labrador Party, along with other public servants. Ern served as the first leader of the newly reformed party, whose goal was to bring attention to the region and its people, who they felt were being ignored by the government of Newfoundland. Ern's goal was to help give a voice to people who historically had no voice in the government, specifically the native population of Labrador. This had been a lifelong goal of his, and would continue to be his mission his whole life. His house became a destination to native people who needed a place to stay while travelling through Labrador. Ern retired and left Labrador eventually. But his mission to help people never ended. He would go on to teach in Nunavut after his retirement. He continued his mission in Ottawa, where he helped people from Newfoundland who were in town for heart transplants, to feel at home in a strange city. Ern died at home on December 10th at the age of 77, surrounded by family. When asked by Ottawa Citizen reporter Kelly Egan Was he often persistent?, Eileen Condon replied That should be his middle name. He would go to the ends of the earth to do things for other people. And it was never about what it would bring to him, only others. Labrador West, and Labrador as a whole, would not be what it now is without the kindness and compassion shown by Ern to all Labradorians, and to everybody he ever met.\"\r\n },\r\n {\r\n photo: \"https:\/\/creatifty.com\/loda\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Philip Abel.webp\",\r\n name: \"Philip Abel\",\r\n desc: \"Philip Abel is a resident of Hopedale, Labrador. He is a residential school survivor, who lost most of his Inuit language and culture during his years at school, but has since recovered both. 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