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Annual Report with List of Places Vacated, 1963

Report Image Page 1 (96k) Report Image Page 2 (89k) Report Image Page 3 (90k) Report Image Page 4 (86k) ANNUAL REPORT For The Year Ended March 31, 1963 DEPARTMERT OF PUBLIC WELFARE Centralization Reference has been made in previous years to the Centralization Programme which is administered by the Social Assistance Division. Financial assistance may be granted to a maximum of $600.00 per family in order to assist families to move from isolated settlements to a more centralized area where public services, schools, medical care, etc., are more readily available. No assistance may be granted to an individual unless the head of the household of every family living in an isolated community signs a petition agreeing to move and requests financial assistance from this Department. The regulations state that assistance may be provided any family who moved from an isolated settlement not more than two years before the signing of the petition. The cost of this Programme from April 1, 1962 to March 31, 1963 was $92,433.67. The number of families assisted during the period was 99. There has been a total of 1,256 families assisted since the Programme commenced in January, 1954. It will be noted that the number assisted last year was far less than the year previous even though 13 settlements were abandoned from April 1, 1961 to March 31, 1962 and 11 settlements were abandoned during the year just past. The population of the settlements moved in 1961-62 was much larger than that of the settlements abandoned in the year 1962-63. - 2 - The breakdown of places either vacated or in the process of being vacated is listed below: Places Vacated No. of Families Barge Bay, Labrador 4 Black Island to Hillgrade 12 Blow Me Down, Kingman's 1 Bonalds Island 22 Braggs Island 66 Brown's Cove 11 Brunette Island 62 Burnt Island 21 Burnt Island Tickle 8 Cape Cove 4 Colinet Island 51 Coney Arm, W. B. 5 Corbin 9 Coward's Island, B. B. 26 Crawley's Island 15 Deer Island 9 Dog Cove, Burgeo 6 Dove Brook 4 East St. Modeste 3 Eastward Cove, Via Branch 1 Emberley's Pond, Via Boyd's Cove 2 Fair Islands 85 Femme 20 Flat Islands 93 Gad's Hr. to Norris Point 1 George's Cove 9 Gold Cove 6 Goose Cove 12 Granby Island 1 - 3 - Places Vacated No. of Families Great Hr., East Cul De Sac 16 Great Jervois 5 Green Island 9 Groais Island 8 Head's Harbour 14 Hr. Island, Placentia Bay Area 6 House Cove 6 Indian Islands, Fogo 59 Ireland Bight 8 Island Cove, Via Long Beach 6 Jiggin Cove 2 Kerley's Hr. 2 King's Cove, Spirity Cove 1 Lear's Cove 1 Little Bonia 3 Little Brehat, St. Anthony 24 Lower Head 6 Lumsden South 22 Muddy Bay, Cartwright 1 North East Arm of Trinity, B. B. 7 North East & South West Croque 21 North West Arm, B. B. 20 Nuggetville, Markland 2 Pardy's Island 6 Patrick's Island 3 Paul's Island 15 Pinch Gut Tickle 1 Point Crewe 6 Port Nelson 22 Pumbley's Cove 10 Pushthrough 2 Raymond's Point, Gaultois 9 - 4 - Places Vacated No. of Families Red Island, Burgeo 7 Rouge Harbour 1 Round Harbour 6 Safe Harbour, Bonavista North 19 Sand Hill Bay, Labrador 3 Sandy Cove, Via Port Aux Choix 2 Sandy Cove, Twillingate 8 Silver Fox Island 45 Sops Island West 44 Sound Island 12 South Branch, Codroy 2 St. Anne's 2 St. John's Bay 2 Sunnyside, W. B. 6 Sydney Cove, B. B. 36 The Head, Summerville 3 Thoroughfare, T. B. 8 Tickle Island, S. M. B. 1 Triton East 14 Webbers Cove 9 West Bay 13 Western Arm, W. B. 10 Wild Beach, Jean de Baie 1 Wild Cove 18 Winter House Cove 10 Woodfords Cove 4 Woods Island 79 << Back

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