“Catch of the Season”

Description

"Now we are facing a wonderful future, Gone are the winters we've always endured": unemployment insurance for fishermen. After 20 weeks of rated hauls, "sit back and do nothing for the rest of the year"

Notes

Source of Historical Reference: _History of Newfoundland and Labrador Summary Chronology of Events_ by Dr. Melvin Baker (Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada, March 2003), available as bakerchronology.pdf as a research paper at the Newfoundland and Labrador government site of the Royal Commission on Renewing and Strengthening Our Place in Canada

Blondahl02, NFOBlondahl03, and NFOBlondahl05 have no liner notes confirming that this song was collected in Newfoundland. Nevertheless, this seems so much in the Newfoundland style that I am "finding" it there.

There is no entry for "Catch of the Season" in _Newfoundland Songs and Ballads in Print 1842-1974 A Title and First-Line Index_ by Paul Mercer. - BS

Historical references

• 1957 - Canada extends unemployment insurance to fishers (see notes)

Cross references

• cf. "Unemployment Insurance" (theme)

Recordings

• Omar Blondahl, "Catch of the Season" (on NFOBlondahl02)