30 YEARS ON – THE COD COLLAPSE
Display Date:
June 30, 2022 - June 4, 2023
Where:
Level 4 Museum Entrance
Images and artifacts mark the anniversary of this momentous event in our province’s history when the 500-year-old commercial fishery for Northern Cod ground to a halt on July 2, 1992. Thirty thousand people lost their livelihoods and entire communities lost younger generations to outmigration in the ensuing years as an industry pause stretched to decades. Are there reasons to hope 30 years on?