In the nineteenth century, hundreds of young girls joined schooner- and land-based fishing crews in the great seasonal labrador cod-fishery. Uneducated and socially repressed, many of these young women found themselves a...In the nineteenth century, hundreds of young girls joined schooner- and land-based fishing crews in the great seasonal labrador cod-fishery. Uneducated and socially repressed, many of these young women found themselves alone and frightened on distant shores, with no familial or spiritual support.