Port Hope Simpson wild bay

historical fiction based on year as vso volunteer in Port Hope Simpson, Labrador, Newfoundland, Canada 1969-70 and coming back out to The Town of Port Hope Simpson's Coming Home Celebrations in July 2002; also based on holiday travels; Richard ap Meurig's sense of purpose, peace, quietness,returning to awe-inspiring wilderness of The Labrador, spiritual retreat & renewal...http://porthopesimpson.blogspot.com/

Monday, July 19, 2004

57. chance she'd been




waiting for. She would ask him tonight after supper when he was always in a good mood.
And so it came about quite easily as it so happened because her father had tired of her. Loga travelled on the cargo ship to the Port of London Docks with James and Kevin. Soon she was with what she guessed was James’s child and she married him in a small parish church in Cardiff. On the ship over she had already taken advantage of the opportunity to take Kevin to a ship’s bunk as well. She had what she wanted- both of them. Neither of the two young men suspected the other because they were the best of friends.
Loga had started a chain of events that was to end in horror for James and his family. Loga felt excited and she was looking forward to whatever lay ahead.
The Jeffreys had set up their first home in Butte Town, Cardiff. It was a very rough and violent area with prostitutes on the streets making good earnings from the seaman who came ashore. It was a very busy trading district where J. O. Jeffrey Ltd had his solitary office grandly called "Dowlice Chambers."
Loga was very excited to be leaving for Newfoundland in July 1934. She didn't know what to expect although she had been told they would be living at a place called Wild Bay that would be similar to where she came from in the Ukraine. J. O. Jeffrey, his son and family as well as Quigley all set out to establish their first camp in Labrador.
Their ship called in at St John's on the way, where they took on board about 100 men for the first cutting and setting up of a permanent settlement and collected the Government officials who