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raccoon

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Mon Oct 22, 2018, 11:46 AM Oct 2018

Newfoundland outports--any of y'all Canadians ever live in one? [View all]

I watched a YouTube video about somebody visiting a Canadian outport called Petites, which was abandoned about 50 years ago, as so many of them were, As part of the government resettlement program.

I found another video where was made in 1949 about the outports, then still thriving. How the ship would come in the spring and in the fall to bring them supplies but during the winter they were pretty much on their own. I wonder what such a life would be like, living in a place that was so isolated and there might be as few as eight families.

I grew up in a small town of 300 and something people about the size of some of those outports but we could get in the car and go to a nearby town.

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