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Marriages were also a community event, accompanied with cold plate or soup dinners, with homemade cakes and cookies, followed by dances. The couple usually received small gifts from their guests. Funerals were different than the ceremony today, the wake was always held in the home of the deceased and it was tradition for every household to close their blinds out of mourning.

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Funeral procession in Round Harbour
c. April, 1962
Round Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada

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j lee; Funeral procession in Round Harbour
c. April, 1962
Round Harbour, Newfoundland, Canada

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Depending on the size of the town, some communities had small services and stores. Post offices, clinics (called surgeries), cold storages, general stores were run in some of the larger coastal towns; other towns too small for these businesses had to travel by boat to the nearest community to access them or order items through catalogue.

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Pushthrough Trade, owned by Thomas Garland.
1960-1070
Pushthrough, Newfoundland, Canada


Credits:
Bill Simms, the manager of Pushthrough Trade, and unknown woman. Presumably his wife.

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Remains of the Post Office in Recontre West
c. 1980
Rencontre West, Newfoundland, Canada