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East Coast Night Association
by Debi Smith

It takes six days and six nights to travel from the Bulkley Valley to Newfoundland by bus. Plane fare can hover in the thousands of dollars for people that annually leave our west coast for the Atlantic coast on visits "home."

But the need to survive and have steady work in the BC is often greater than the need to stay close to your roots, culture and family ties on the east coast.

Paula and daughter sell tickets to the big event
The concentration of Easterners in Houston surged with the opening of the Equity Silver Mine in 1980. Word was quickly sent back about the many job opportunities in local businesses and at the two mills - Houston Forest Products and Northwood Pulp and Timber. Today, "local" Easterners can be found everywhere as millworkers, teachers, business owners, bank tellers, musicians and writers to name a few.
The Appy - scallops and shrimp - yummy!

While predominantly from Newfoundland, this area houses a multitude of smiling eastern folk from Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and New Brunswick. Aside from their British-like drawl or Newfoundland brogue, these people can be identified by their overt friendliness and sincere social nature.

Although they love fiddles, they'll dance jigs to any music. They eat seafood dishes steeped in tradition, drink drum loads of Scotch and Screech and make non-easterners kiss a dead cod to become one of them. With all of this culture to share, it was only a matter of time before the East Coast Night Association was born.

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