Topics for Discussion

1. Why people move from one place to another.
   
   
2. Resettlement as different from moving: government's role in deciding where people should live.
   
   
3. The survival of small, rural communities, past and present.
   
   
4. The effects of resettlement on different generations in a family.
   
   
5. Attitudes toward resettlement today.
   
   
6. Human rights: rights to free choice of where to live and work.

Questions for Discussion

1. What is a "memory map?"
   
   
2. Some places that used to be on the map of Newfoundland and Labrador are no longer on it. Why are some places no longer on the map? Can you find new places on the map of this province?
   
   
3. What is "resettlement?" How is it different from simply deciding to move from one place to another?
   
   
4. Why did the Newfoundland government want people to move away from certain places? Make a list of things about a place that might make the government want to resettle its people.
   
   
5. This essay says that problems with resettlement began when the government got involved in moving people. What were some of the problems?
   
   
6. Deborah Jackman says that the move from Grole to Harbour Breton led to both good and bad changes for her family. What were some of the good changes? What were some of the bad changes?
   
   
7. Deborah says that, in Harbour Breton, money suddenly became more important for her family. Why did this happen? Why was money more important in Harbour Breton than it was in Grole?