Inside Labrador

Summer 2013

New shelter construction delayed, but SPCA ready to go

A building boom in central Labrador has delayed construction of a badly needed new animal shelter in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, but the local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) still hopes to have a roof up by next winter.

"It took us longer than we thought," said SPCA spokesperson Bonnie Learning. "Right now we have all our building plans reviewed and approved by the province and the town."

Read more (flip to page 26 of virtual magazine).

The slate wiped clean

The fire that destroyed my original cabin gave me a difficult rebuilding job, but saved me from renovating the neglected structure. Pilots with the Dutch air force built the first cabin, a bottom-heavy A-frame, on the east end of Stone Lake, north of the Churchill River, in the 1970s. By the time I bought it, years of neglect had left the cabin needing many repairs.

Read more (flip to page 42 of virtual magazine).

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