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Experience Labrador Company Profiles |
Site Location: N53° 41' 53.89" W57° 00' 35.31" |
20 Lethbridge Lane Cartwright, Labrador, NL A0K 1V0 |
George Barrett, the senior member, was born in Goose Bay, Labrador but his ancestral home was located at Seperation Point, near the mouth of the Eagle River, 25 miles to the northwest of Cartwright. He lived there year round for 8 years from the time of his birth until his father obtained permanent employment with the USAF base at Goose Bay in 1956. George returned to the Sandwich Bay area for the next 10 summers visiting his aunts and uncles at their summer homes and fishing stations along the Labrador Coast. George finished high school and went to work with Transport Canada in December 1966 and in 1970 switched to Canada Post. He retired in 2001 to spend more time at this tourism business which he and the other members of his family began in 1999/2000. He has always desired to be near the water and in 1997 obtained instruction in Coastal Navigation and sailboating, buying a sailboat of his own in 1998. He returned to the Sandwich Bay area in 2000 and with his wife and son set up routes and trip plans for the business. |
Experience Labrador is a family owned and operated outdoor adventure business operating out of Cartwright on the South Labrador Coast. |
Pete has been in or on the water since she was a small child growing up un the shores of the Exploits river in central Newfoundland. |
Peyton (Pete) has an Education Degree from Memorial University of Newfoundland, A Business Ed. Diploma, Certified Small Business Counselor and works as a Craft Industry Development Consultant for 45 weeks of the year. She is also an artist with her own studio, Mealy Mountain Gallery/Fantasy Studios which is were she spends her free time when Kayak season closes. She has also been awarded a commendation from the Governor General of Canada for "an act of great merit in providing assistance to others in a selfless manner at "Devil's Hole" on the Churchill River, in Newfoundland and Labrador, on August 8th, 2001. |
Tom is a mineral technologist and draftsman. He has been downhill skiing since the age of three and, while living in Toronto in the 90's, volunteered with Track III working on the ski slopes with challenged inner-city young people. He began canoeing before he began school and had formal instruction by age eight. He began his training in kayaking in 2000. Canoeing was a hobby, now kayaking and camping in Labrador is his way of life. Tom has certification in BCU and CRCA kayaking as well as Wilderness First Responder. |