Traditional Skills and Crafts at Risk

At one point, makers of birch brooms, woven baskets, or tea dolls were commonplace in Newfoundland and Labrador. Today, the practitioners of these heritage crafts seem to be fewer in number, with fewer people having the knowledge of how to make the tools, objects, and crafts of yesteryear. Dale Jarvis of Heritage NL will talk about the organization's work to identify critically and/or endangered heritage crafts in the province, and how they are developing programs to safeguard these skills before they are lost.