Ep178 Green's Harbour Orange Lodge

Nancy Brace is the founder of the Green's Harbour Heritage Society. She is a Green’s Harbour native who returned to Newfoundland in 2007. In 2009, she learned that the Orange Lodge in her community was for sale, and felt compelled to preserve one of the town’s oldest historic buildings. The Gre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dignam, Natalie
Other Authors: Brace, Nancy
Format: Audio
Language:English
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Online Access:http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_oral/id/857
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Summary:Nancy Brace is the founder of the Green's Harbour Heritage Society. She is a Green’s Harbour native who returned to Newfoundland in 2007. In 2009, she learned that the Orange Lodge in her community was for sale, and felt compelled to preserve one of the town’s oldest historic buildings. The Green’s Harbour Orange Lodge is now amalgamated with nearby communities, but Nancy and the Green’s Harbour Heritage Society are looking to adapt the historic Lodge building as a multi-use center for the community. In this interview, Nancy shares stories about the lodge and the new life being brought to the building through restoration.