Robin moved to Labrador in 2006 and lived there for ten years with her husband who was appointed a judge. Although a native of Newfoundland, she had spent much of her working life in what was then the Northwest Territories, now Nunavut. She writes, through essays and articles, what became most important to her during her decade in Labrador: the people and the land. Labrador is very, very different from Newfoundland, and very different from the more northern parts of Canada also. Its geography is varied, its languages arecomplex, its history is unique. In her time there she met some of the nicest, bravest, most interesting people she has ever known. Innu elder and activist Elizabeth Penashue and her husband Francis brought her into a part of Labrador that most people never see. Into thecountry, to the sweatlodges and remote beaches and into the homes and tents of their friends and relatives. They brought her to eligious services, baby showers and funerals, berry picking and on fishing trips. Quite a number of these stories are a direct result of these experiences. The Mista Shipu is known in English as the Churchill River. | Life On the Mista Shipu by Robin McGrath, Paperback | Indigo Chapters