DCHP-3

liveyere†

Nfld Dial.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Spelling variants:
liv(i)er(e), livyer, Liveyere, etc.

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a permanent resident of the coast of Labrador, as opposed to the fishermen coming from Newfoundland for the fishing season.

See: floater(def. 2a),Labradorman(def. 1),longshoreman,planter(def. 2d),winterer(def. 1)
Although usually regarded as < live here, this term may be < livier < OF livree (cp. livery), formerly in English villages a manorial worker having certain hereditary rights to a cottage and a small piece of land, thus being regarded as a permanent resident.

Quotations

1905
The 'liveyeres' of the north dwell in huts, in lonely coves of the bays, remote even from neighbours as ill-cased as themselves; there they live and laugh and love and suffer and die and bury their dead--alone.
1912
She's married a sailorman before the mast, a Liveyere from the Labrador. . . .
1924
It shows how different the life of Labrador is winter and summer to recall that only four thousand people live on the Labrador all the year round (liveyeres, they are called, of whom about seventeen hundred are Eskimo), while in summer there are about twenty-five thousand people on her coasts.
1947
The resident white fishermen of the outer coast are mostly known under the title liveyeres, a West of England word supposed to be a corruption of "live here". On the southern coast a distinction is also made between liveyeres, English-speaking, semi-settled fishermen[,] and habitants, semi-settled fishermen who speak French. The former are also termed "planters" or "settlers."
1964
. . . there is developing a pattern of life similar to that . . . of most "liveyers" in southern Labrador. . . .
2n.

(by extension) a permanent resident of the isolated outports (def. 1) of Newfoundland or the North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

See: outport(def. 1)

Quotations

1946
Around 1700 of the settlers (known as 'liviers') had built their huts as far north as the Bay of Exploits; and Fogo and Twillingate were new fishing centres.
1958
They were just four miles from Cape St. John where some "liveyers" (resident families) lived; only six miles from the little settlement of Shoe Cove.
1963
There are two Kingston-born sisters on the upper St. Lawrence who have been chipping away at the primitive conditions among the Liveyeres since 1930.