Winner, Atlantic Book Award for Scholarly Writing 2021
Winner, Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Non-Fiction 2021
Winner, Canadian Historical Association’s Clio Prize (Atlantic) 2021
Winner, Peter Cashin Prize 2021
Short-listed, BMO Winterset Award 2021
Short-listed, The Honourable Edward Roberts History Book Award 2022
Between 1906 and 1980, hundreds of Labrador children attended boarding schools run by the Moravian Mission or the International Grenfell Association. A Long Journey tells their stories, based on interviews and archival research through the Newfoundland and Labrador Healing and Commemoration Project.
For years, the story of the boarding schools was told by the authorities who ran them. A Long Journey helps redress this imbalance by listening closely to the accounts of former students, as well as drawing on government, community, and school archives. This book examines the history of boarding schools in Labrador and St. Anthony, and, in doing so, contextualizes the ongoing determination of Indigenous communities to regain control over their children’s education.
All royalties from this book are donated to Them Days, a magazine and archive dedicated to preserving Labrador’s history.
Reviews
“Essential reading for anyone wishing to learn about the history of residential schools in Canada and about the complexities of residential schooling across Canada…educational history of Canada is deficient without this book.”
– Trish Logan, Historical Studies in Education
“A Long Journey is a compelling, necessary read.”
– Joan Sullivan, The Telegram
“Procter delivers the most thorough examination of its kind.”
– Jenn Thornhill Verma, Atlantic Books Today
“A Long Journey does not just describe a historical moment; it is a part of it.”
– John R.H. Matchim, The Canadian Historical Review
“Andrea Procter’s compelling and comprehensive book…amplifies and balances the personal and scholarly to provide a compassionate and measured depiction of the impacts felt by northern residents as a result of Moravian Mission and International Grenfell Association schools.”
– Jury, BMO Winterset Award
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