Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1893 - Hopedale: The Moravian Mission
Taken by Donald Baxter
MacMillan, this 1931 photograph shows the Hopedale area
“Hopedale, the Moravian mission station, about midway of the Labrador coast, was my next stop, on the 20th… The settlement itself consists of three or four neat, strongly built houses, which form the quarters and stores of the missionaries, surrounded by the small wooden structures occupied by the natives, of whom there are some one hundred and fifty at this place. None of the natives here live in stone or turf houses.” - Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
The
Hopedale "Gardens"
Missionaries
in Greenland
"Hopedale" by Donald B. MacMillan. 1931, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
