8. Some people who were resettled out of small communities moved back to them later. Why do you think they did this?
   
   
9. In a part of a letter printed in this essay, a woman says that taking schools out of communities is a way of getting everyone to leave. Why do you think she feels this way? What does having a school mean for a community? Do you agree or disagree with the woman who wrote the letter?
   
   
10. The issue of resettlement is still with us. People today talk of places they might "have to leave." Why is resettlement still an issue in Newfoundland? Do you think resettlement is a good or bad thing for people in communities today?

Projects

Make a memory map. Go over the section of this essay that tells how Deborah Jackman drew her memory map. You can:

- draw a memory map of a place from your past, or
- ask another person to draw a map of a place from his or her past.

Make sure that you or the other persons drawing the map can talk while drawing. Talking about places helps people remember details about them.

Imagine a family in 1996. Marie is 46; her husband, Frank, is 48. Frank used to fish in a small boat. Marie used to work in the fish plant. They have not worked since the cod moratorium. Marie's father, Jim, aged 72, has lived with them since his wife died. Marie and Frank have two children still at home: Richard is 14; Anna is 9. Now, imagine that there is talk of resettling people out of the community this family lives in. How might each family member feel? Discuss as a group, or write your ideas.