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In Newfoundland, fishing villages are known as outports, and the outport where we were heading was Summerville, off the Indian Arm of Bonavista Bay.

Yolande Pottie-Sherman, a researcher and geography professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, said resettlement poses important questions: should remote communities and outport culture be kept alive, and at what – and whose – expense?

He ended the four-hour cruise at his own cabin built in the resettled outport of English Harbour, a creekside clearing of fallen sheds fronting a white-capped bay ringed in silent forests.

If you were to ask a fisherman of some remote outport what his flour was made of he would stare at you and be mute.

Steps were also taken in 1863 to improve the accommodation to the outports by substituting a steam vessel for the sailing boats, by which the exchange of mails was effected.