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In 1959, when all the people had to move from Hebrc we moved to Nain and I married there. We used to go back to Hebron in the summertime to go fishing. The the people on the collector boat said that Hebron is t far, so in 1961 we started to go to Okak. Okak is about 70 miles north of Nain - nine hours to up on the boat. As soon as the ice breaks up and the collector boat comes, around July 1, we go up north a stay there two months. We live in a tent all summer. I used to make my own tent, but there is none of that k of material here now so we have to bring an already made one. This summer six of us went up to Okak. There was me and my husband, one son, and two gra children, and one person that was fishing with my son. There used to be about 10 tents around Okak and a lc people fishing there. Now some of them got no nets a no boat, most of them sold their licence. That's why they don't go up anymore. This summer there was on tent, just us, but we're never bored. Up there you don think about nothing, always something to do. Sometimes it's lonely because there's only a few of us, but I don't want to come back. I would stay until almost freezing, I suppose because I like being outside of Nain. It's so fresh and clean. |
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