Since our Labrador sojourn was abbreviated, this has given us time to explore Newfoundland at a more casual pace. Loving the most northerly region, we headed east again on the Viking Trail, skipping L'anse aux Meadows and heading to St. Anthony's. St. Anthony's is a 'real' place with facilities like a hospital and, okay, a Tim Hortons which was our first stop. Earlier when at Port au Choix, we had bought a book called 'Our Seniors', in which the eldest people were interviewed about their lives in Port au Choix. This turned out to be a fascinating tale of pre-confederation times with much poverty, many children who died, deaths by drowning and tuburculosis. They made clothes out of flower sacks. During the war, the German U-boats were picking off fishing vessels in the Strait of Belle Isle regularly. In this book, St. Anthony's figured repeatedly because it had the only doctor (later doctors). Dr. Grenfell (there is a Grenfell College associated
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