So few on earth : a Labrador Métis woman remembers / Josie Penny.
So few on earth : a Labrador Métis woman remembers / Josie Penny.
By
:
Penny, Josie.
Publication Date
:
2010
Publication Information
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Toronto : Dundurn Press,
Physical Description
:
323 p. : ill., maps.
Subject Term
:
Métis women -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Summary
:
Josephine Mildred Curl Penny grew up in Labrador during the 1940s and 1950s. Like many Ms, she and her family lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving inside to the primitive settlement of Roaches Brook each fall to hunt and trap, andoutside to Spotted Islands in the spring to harvest the rich fishing grounds. Sent away to hospital at age four, to boarding school when she was seven, and forced out to work at age eleven, Josie lost the family bond so important to a young child. She recounts the years spent at Lockwood Boarding School where she suffered atrocious punishments, merciless teasing, and the humiliation of two rapes. The depersonalization and constant punishment eventually took their toll, and her once free-spirited nature was broken. Reading became her only escape.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781554887095
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Arnold's Cove | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Baie Verte | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Bay Roberts | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Bay St. George South | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Bell Island | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Bishop's Falls | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Bonavista | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Botwood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Buchans | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Burgeo | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Burin | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Cape St. George | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Carbonear | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Carmanville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Cartwright | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Centreville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Change Islands | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Codroy Valley | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Conception Bay South | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Cormack | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Corner Brook | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Cow Head | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Daniel's Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Deer Lake | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Fogo Island | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Fortune | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Fox Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Gambo | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Gander | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Garnish | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Gaultois | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Glenwood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Glovertown | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Grand Bank | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Greenspond | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Happy Valley - Goose Bay - Melville | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Harbour Breton | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Harbour Grace | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Hare Bay | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Harry's Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Hermitage | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Holyrood | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
King's Point - Tilley | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
L'Anse Au Loup | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Labrador City | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Lark Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Lewisporte | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Lourdes | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Lumsden | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Marystown | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Musgrave Harbour - John B. Wheeler Public Library | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
New-Wes-Valley | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Norris Arm | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Norris Point | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Pasadena | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Placentia | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Point Leamington | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Port au Port | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Port aux Basques | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Port Saunders | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Pouch Cove | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Ramea | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Rocky Harbour | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Seal Cove | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Sop's Arm | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Springdale | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. Alban's | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. Anthony | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. Brides's | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. George's | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - Cons Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - Conservation Room | B P38 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Biography NL Reference - NL Room | B P38 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult Bio NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Biography NL Reference - Provincial Collection | B P38 |
St. John's - Marjorie Mews | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
St. Lawrence | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Stephenville Crossing | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Summerford | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Torbay | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Trepassey | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Trinity Bay North | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Twillingate | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Victoria | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Wabush | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Whitbourne | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Winterton | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |
Woody Point | Adult Bio NL | Adult Biography NL | B P38 |