Hebron, NL

Hebron is the name of a former Moravian mission that was the northernmost settlement in Labrador. Founded in 1831, the mission disbanded in 1959. The Inuit Abraham Ulrikab family, exhibited in zoos in Europe in 1880, were from Hebron.

ref. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador

Hank’s notes from a letter to a friend in 2006.

In 1949 I made a visit to the Torngat Mountains of Labrador in a Fairchild Husky float plane from Fort Mackenzie in Northern Quebec to Ramak Bay and on to Hebron on the Labrador coast.  On our arrival at Hebron the sea was too rough for a landing but we were lucky to land on a small lake just north of the settlement to camp or the night.

A Moravian Mission and a Labrador Trading Post were in operation at the time and nearby were some native sod huts.  At Hebron a crew from a sunken fishing boat had just arrived in lifeboats.  They were trying to get a message out to a freighter up the coast to pick them up on its return trip to Newfoundland.  Radio communications were poor at the time because the ionospheric conditions frequently caused radio black-outs at these latitudes, so we took their message to Fort Chimo which had better radio contact with the outside world.  I assume the crew got home okay.

From Hebron the flight was made north along the mountains and past Nachvak Fiord until bad weather forced us to change course to Fort Chimo.

 

Torngat Mountains 1949