Back to the present

Hard to believe, yet easy to believe, that this was 26 years ago. From the Globe and Mail of January 23, 1981:

A trans-Labrador highway, from Labrador City in the west to Churchill Falls and perhaps Happy Valley-Goose Bay, has long been a Labradorian dream, and over the years has been dubbed "the freedom trail." A five-year provincial Government plan, released last October, says a proposal already has gone to Ottawa and pledges that substantial progress will be made toward this highway by 1985; but federal minister William Rompkey said two weeks ago that no such proposal had been received.