Abandoning home: One town’s crisis is summoning a ghost from Newfoundland’s history — resetlement
Resettlement. In Newfoundland, it is a loaded and divisive term, shaded by memories of bygone days and haunted by ghosts of places that no longer exist. McDougall’s Gulch, Rattling Brook, Muddy Hole, Pushthrough, Tickles, Ireland’s Eye and hundreds of other communities that were abandoned for money, for politics, for “progress” from the 1950s to ’70s because people felt like they did not have a choice. That if they did not leave, they would get left behind.
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