Credit: Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archive, Collection 200, unnumbered photo.

Picture Three

The Crew of a Fishing Schooner

Many young women worked in the fishery. Some went away to work "on the Labrador." Some worked as part of the crew on a fishing boat, as this young woman did. Women who worked alone among men had no one to help them if they became pregnant. In 1897, five young women who had worked in the summer fishery in Labrador were charged with infanticide.