From 1976 through 1980 I traveled by coastal steamer and on rutted roads to fishing villages along the Newfoundland and Laborador coasts. With the depletion of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery, the Canadian government began a moratory on fishing and sought to relocate inhabitants to the mainland. With men at work in their boats and women in the houses, village children spent their idle summer hours congregating on the rocky shore, unaware of the impending and unending changes to their way of life.