Ep069 Building Boats and Building Community.

• Main Author: Jarvis, Dale
• Other Authors: Dempsey, Jim
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Oral traditions; expressions and the written word; Arctic; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/706

Jim Dempsey is the President of the Wooden Boat Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador. Jim has been around boats and the ocean all of his life. As a boy, he spent his summers on the beach where he always had a boat to row. After studying marine biology and oceanography at university, he was fortunate to be employed in his field for over forty years. He has worked along the entire British Columbia coast, in the Canadian Arctic, and from Sable Island to Hudson's Bay on the east coast. For Jim, the Wooden Boat Museum has provided a chance to realise a dream to build wooden boats. This experience has been enhanced by the people he has met, the places he has visited, and the stories he has heard. We talk about the joy of boat building, the growth of the Wooden Boat Museum, tourism and hands on programming, Wooden Boat conferences, the educational component of the Museum’s work, and the importance of partnerships.