Map showing the location of Hopedale Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Hopedale Mission

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Map location of Hopedale Mission

"Hopedale Mission National Historic Site Canada is a complex of large, wooden buildings constructed by the Moravian Church at Hopedale, Labrador." It "was designated a National Historic Site of Canada because: it symbolizes the interaction between the Labrador Inuit and Moravian missionaries; and, singularly and collectively, the mission buildings are fine representative examples of Moravian Mission architecture in Labrador." source

Scenes set here

  • Cover of The Navigator of New York
    The Navigator of New York

    Wayne Johnston

    In 1881, Aunt Daphne said, not long after my first birthday, my father told the family that he had signed on with the Hopedale Mission, which was run by Moravians to improve the…

References

  1. 1.Hopedale Mission — description source
  2. 2.Scene from The Navigator of New York: Wayne Johnston, The Navigator of New York (Knopf Canada, 2002), Chapter One, on CBC Books