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So Newfoundland has been paying to relocate communities since the 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_(Newfoundland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
by stephenboyd 10y ago
So Newfoundland has been paying to relocate communities since the 1950s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_(Newfoundland) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_(Newfoundland)
I'm looking through the government's publications to try to understand this better. Does anyone here know if the relocation assistance includes any help relocating the community intact to a new location, or are they simply being paid to dissolve the community and leave? It would be interesting to see these folks all given neighbouring properties in a city so they can hold onto their social capital together.
http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/faq/faq_relocation.html http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/faq/faq_relocation.html
http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/publications/relocation/Community%20Relocation%20Policy.pdf http://www.ma.gov.nl.ca/publications/relocation/Community%20...
- colomon 10y agoMy understanding is third hand at best, but certainly the stuff I've read / heard from the 80s talking about the first wave of resettlement was quite bitter. "The Government Game": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/02/game.htm http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/02/game.htm "The Blow Below The Belt": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/07/blowbelow.htm http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/07/blowbelow.htm "West Moon": http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/01/west.htm http://www.wtv-zone.com/phyrst/audio/nfld/01/west.htm "To a place called Placentia, well, some of them went, And in finding a new home their allowances spent; So for jobs they went lookin' but they looked all in vain, For the roof had caved in on the government game." "Now they're scattered like dried leaves from hell to high water..."