Talk:Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Photography

 * Perhaps a photograph of the cityscape should be in the entry? --Riley 22:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Newfoundland and Labrador municipality infobox
Who amongst us has the ability to design a Newfoundland and Labrador municipality infobox, check out Dawson Creek, British Columbia for example. HJKeats 15:53, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
 * SomeStranger is helping to design one (after seeing me fumble around trying to make my own). It's currently called Nltowninfobox.
 * Looks good, can we pop it into the article and populate it with the pertinent information and see how it looks? I did notice that the infobox is hard coded for NST. Our uniqueness again is showing through where Labrador is in AST. HJKeats 21:25, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Topics and sub-headings
This is a call-to-action for assistance from individuals who can lend a hand in the selection of the topics and additional information that you could provide to this article. HJKeats 02:42, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well as of now the Geography section has more to do with history than with geography, so perhaps that information could be moved to the history section and the sub-headings "situation and transport", "physical geography", and "climate" would be added to geography. As for history, is there any notable pre-european settlement in the HVGB area? Other topics could include 'Tourism', 'Business', 'Politics' and 'Places of interest'. I don't know how easy it will be to get information on these topics, but I'll probably go down to the library next week some time and see if I can't scrounge up somethin.Jeremiad 13:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Stub
I thought there was a lot of information already and removed the stub notice. Put it back if I am wrong but I thought stubby information was less than a paragraph etc. WayneRay 15:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

additions
I added a reference and information on the discovery of the goose bay site. WayneRay 05:23, 28 June 2006 (UTC)WayneRay

Spam?
[edit] ================================ THE STORY OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN HAPPY VALLEY

Until the summer of 1953, all church activities in Happy Valley, Goose Bay area, came under the supervision of the Rev. Lester Leeland Burry, the long-time--since 1931--resident missionary who lived at North West River.

THE WORK OF THE REV. DR. HECTOR SWAIN

[edit] ========================= For much of the following information I owe thanks to the Rev. Dr. Hector Swain--retired as a minister of the United Church of Canada. He now lives in Mount Pearl, a suburb of St. John's.

In 1983, he wrote a short book about the life and work of the Rev. Dr. Burry: LESTER LEELAND BURRY, Labrador Pastor & Father of Confederation (Harry Cuff Publications Limited, St. John's, NL, Canada, 1983). Interestingly, Dr. Burry was a member of the NL commission which helped bring NL into confederation with the rest Canada in 1949. Quite an accomplishment.

THE RIGHT PERSON FOR THE JOB

[edit] ================ In his book, Dr. Swain records that Dr. Burry was born in Safe Harbour, NL, on the north side of Bonavista Bay. He, one of nine children, was the youngest son of Stephen Burry and Mary (Bourne). He was born on July 12, 1898--the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, which was won by William of Orange, king of England.

His father, Stephen, was the hard-working owner of a fishing schooner in which he went to the Labrador. Later, with the help of his sons, including Lester, he made the family living by fishing on the Labrador. This experience, with his father, gave Lester the kind of practical education he needed to carry on his work as a missionary, later.

SAFE HARBOUR, THEN AND NOW

By the way, during Dr. Burry's childhood, Safe Harbour had only one general store, a one-room-all-grade school, and one church. This church was visited only monthly by a minister--a very important occasion. There was no post office. Later, as part of the re-location project of the NL government, Safe Harbour was abandoned by its last family, in 1955. Ironically, in the spirit of Mark Twain, at last it was safe, from the cancer of humanity.

Despite its humble nature, Safe Harbour, over the generations previous to this--as pointed out in Dr. Swain's book--produced many talented people who went on to be of great service to all of us.

At that time, educated to the grade eleven level, under E.J. Crummey, Greenspond. This qualified Dr. Burry to go on to study at Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB. There, he took what was known as the short course--five years of arts and theology. That was in 1923/24--prior to the formation of the United Church of Canada. In 1924, he was ordained to serve in the front-line of the pastoral ministry of the Methodist Church.

His first parish, following his ordination, was St, Anthony, where he served for four years. There, he met Dr. Wilfred Grenfell who influenced him to volunteer for the Labrador mission work. But this step came later, after he had spent some time in Curling and Little Bay Islands.

Dr. Burry--on behalf of the Newfoundland Conference of the United Church of Canada, volunteered, in 1931, to go "down north" to "the Labrador", as they used to say.

A GOOD BOAT AND A GOOD DOG TEAM IS WHAT I NEED

[edit] ================================== He agreed to go to Labrador on two conditions: "I will need a good boat. In addition, I will need a good team of dogs." he said. Because of his family background, Lester Burry knew about boats and what he needed to get the job done. The boat he wanted was built in June, 1931. The Glad Tidings II was dedicated, in Twillingate, by the Rev. Dr. Mark Fenwick, superintendent of missions.

Although, at the time, he did not have lot of experience with dogs, he was aware of their team-value and as a form of transportation. [more on this, later].

'''What is the status of the above? (should it stay, or be deleted) Teak the Kiwi 23:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)'''

Move?
I was wondering if anyone had any objections moving this to Happy Valley-Goose Bay. It's not like anyone's going to confuse it with a Happy Valley-Goose Bay anywhere else in the world. Mnmazur (talk)
 * Agree, the place name is very unique. --HJKeats (talk) 00:44, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Done. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 03:45, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

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