A farewell party watched in horror from the shore as his protégé, student missionary Wallace Harris, also perished while trying to rescue him. Jackson had spent the better part of 25 years visiting isolated outports across Newfoundland, encouraging education and self-sufficiency among the poor population. His ministry 100 years ago paints an interesting parallel to today’s explosion of interest in community gardens and food self-sufficiency. As retired religious studies professor Hans Rollmann points out, Jackson wasn’t the first local clergyman to promote horticulture. “Determined to succeed with horticulture, the Moravians developed gardening methods best suited for a climate such as Labrador,” Rollmann wrote in one of his regular Telegram columns several years ago.

Source: thestar July 13, 2021 23:48 UTC