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***** NOTE:
There will be changes to this section of the website when the 12th Northern Peninsula HeritageConference is announced!AGENDA
The 11th Annual Northern Peninsula Heritage Conference
PLUM POINT MOTEL
Friday, Sept. 28th 4:00 P.M. -
5:30 P.M.Plants on the Limestone Barrens with: Dulcie House, Shirley Alyward, & Millie Spence (Even in bad weather this is a good way to collect badges for Guides, Brownies & Beavers as there will be a botanical display in Room 38).
6:00 P.M.
Registration in Room 207
- with drinks & snacks in Room 200.7:00 P.M. Seminar in Room 207- “How the Debon Peninsula lost its name and became Plum Point.” with: Elva & Calvin Spence, Ben & Marion Coombs, Wallace Young, Sr., and others.
Display of local art and handicrafts
(with Colette Samson, Ben Ploughman, Eva Luther, & Ann Cunard)Saturday, Sept. 29th: 10:00 A.M. Dr. Don Hogarth: “The Geology of Chateau Bay as reported by Capt. Charles Campbell in 1827”
10:30 A.M A Chateau Bay update for 2007 with members of the Stone family who still inhabit Chateau Bay and Henley Harbour every summer.
10:45 A.M. COFFEE BREAK
11:00 A.M. Kevin Major: “Toponymic Mysteries in Labrador and Northern Newfoundland – and people whose names have become ships.”
11: 30 A.M. QUESTION TIME
12:00 to
1:30 P.M.LUNCH
1:30 P.M. Wilfred Richard & Perry Colbourne (Skipper of the Smithsonian’s boat, Pitsuilak, for 17 years):
“The Lower North Shore - 2007 Field Season of the Smithsonian’s Arctic Studies Center”.
2:30 P.M. Dr. Andrew Cook: “Lane, the Hydrographer, ... and his Maps.”
3:30 P.M. Visit to the Bird Cove Museum and the Sites where the Artifacts were found, or alternatively out to Old Ferrole Island.
7:00 P.M. Supper & Local Entertainment
Sunday, Sept. 30th.:
10:00 A.M.“Hopedale”
with: Cindy Gibbons, James Igloliarte, & Winston White.
11:15 A.M. COFFEE BREAK
11:30 A.M. "Labrador Links with Sussex”
with: Geoffrey Boys & Martin Harcourt Williams.12:30 P.M. LUNCH
2:00 P.M. Seminar: Dave Lough, Shirley & Steve Letto, & Harrison Barney.
“The First Labrador Visit to the Basque Country in 1986.”
2:45 P.M. Joan Simmonds:
“The Latest Activities on the French Shore.”3:00 P.M. Pierre Mochon:
“The French Sailing Directions for the French Shore - from Fogo to St. Julien’s, according to Martin de Hoyarsabal’s 1579 routier.”
