Hopedale Inuit Community, Labrador | Historic 1782 Moravian Mission & Wonderful Port

understand. My name is Toby Ovid. I was born and raised here in Hopdale. I'm one of the very few that was raised here in town. I'm a residential school survivor. I came back home when I was 16 and I've had to relearn my culture. You're welcome. I've had to relearn my culture, my language, my values, my traditions. I'm still learning to this very day, but I am more fluent and more aware now of my culture and my people. So, it has made me stronger. It has made me a stronger person. Thank you so much. And there was no way to talk. 1865, when the Moravians first settled here in 1782, the dining hall of the Old Mission House was served as their first church. The church remains at the center of Hopedale's religious life-holding services in English and Inuktitut for baptisms, confirmations, marriages. There's, um... And we'll jump in just a few. It's so light and airy. And most people are still... How many people in the total community? I think we have at least 600 people. 600 people? For our population, yes. Thank you. This community gets free books from the Dolly Parton initiative that she started. So sad she's died. Yeah, flour and supplies. If you think of also the school we saw at a church we saw yesterday. We went to hear the one yesterday. Baking and brewing. Wood stove. Baking was an important weekly task for the missionaries, and a manual from 1865 on how to bake bread and brew beer was preserved among the records from Hopedale. Primarily a traditional German yeast bread. Brewing here was an involved process, which required a malt mill funnel strainer, mash tun, which is a top in barrels. The main ingredients were one keg of malt, three to three and a half pounds of hops as well as some water. They had a stable for goats. And so naturally, it would direct their Moravian kitchen. Oh, sorry. The Moravians came from Germany to establish their church in 1782. They lived in the complex attached to the church, the mission house, the main wing, a connecting link between the church and the mission house. There are reserved storehouse and a dead house. One of the storehouses, the oil and salt storehouse, was demolished in 1999. You can see how the mission house is in Moravian-based style. Their ancestors have been called Thule Eskimo, but they're already referred to as the Inuit. You can take pictures in here too. Oh, good. Yes. Until the turn of the century, the Moravian Missions administered the only medical and dental care available on the Labrador coast. Oh, cod liver oil. My mother used to give us, make us take a spoonful of that. This basically is the second level government of Canada. Canadians, Canadians first. It was an upstart. We don't need to. I don't know why. That's one of their markers, landmarkers. Pop's Garage, if Pop can't fix it, it ain't broke. That would stand out against the snow, that's for darn sure. And here is the hotel. And yay, an ATM. One of the stupid things I did is I came away with exactly $20 US. Here is a row of cans, landmarks that are pointing the way to something. This is their government building. And a taxi. Not really a taxi. A traditional tattoo. What is the one down there? It represents my daughter Paisley. And what about the one on your forehead? This one represents entering women. Thank you so very much. I'm going to take it and then I'll show you yourself. Do you want to see yourself? Floating pontoon today. A little trivia. Canadian money. Postcard, Inuit community, and caribou earrings.