Configuration: Higher housing prices in centralization areas often made the purchase of new homes unrealistic and further encouraged transportation. Some destinations, like Arnold’s Cove in Placentia Bay, became largely inhabited by resettled families whose homes lost their original references to topography, local agriculture and landscape, and traditional patterns of use.
Moving a house across the water Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, ca. 1968 Courtesy of the Maritime History Archive, Resettlement Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Frank Drake house, constructed ca. 1880–1890, moved November 1969 from Haystack Arnold’s Cove, Newfoundland, 2004 Courtesy of the Maritime History Archive, Resettlement Collection, Memorial University of Newfoundland
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