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"Mending Net." Wednesday, Dinner menu. Canada Steamship Lines. T.S.S. Richelieu. Date of cruise unknown. Web search indicates the T.S.S. Richelieu sailed in the 1950s, which is consistent with the collection as a whole.
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T.S.S. Richelieu, Wednesday, Dinner Menu; "Mending Net"
"Mending Net." Wednesday, Dinner menu. Canada Steamship Lines. T.S.S. Richelieu. Date of cruise unknown. Web search indicates the T.S.S. Richelieu sailed in the 1950s, which is consistent with the collection as a whole.
Comments
MENDING NETS
Fishing is the chief occupation of the many French Canadians who live in the little villages that dot the shores of the majestic St. Lawrence. Net inspection, drying and mending is a duty to be done when the day's fishing is over and a duty not to be neglected if one's livelihood is to be secure. On any bright day, visitors to the little fishing coves of the St. Lawrence can see the 'fishermen busy at their tasks. As like as not, seated around anyone of them, will be the children from the village because, far from being a chore, net mending time is story-telling time. Children delight in the tales told by these old salts because they are tales of adventure - stories of a dream-world flavoured with a quiet philosophy and spiced with a vivid imagination.