Nicole Lane of Postville shares her trapping adventure on her LadyTrapper YouTube channel. (Submitted by Nicole Lane)
A Labrador woman is bringing tradition and trapping practices from the north coast of the Big Land to viewers around the world.
Nicole Lane, better known on YouTube as LadyTrapper, began documenting her trapping work in 2019. She was driven by a desire to showcase Labrador trapping to viewers.
“I go on YouTube and I look for people in Labrador [doing] trapping videos or anything. There was not much, [and] there’s nothing of the north coast area. So then I inspired myself, I did the one video and I just kept going,” Lane told CBC News this month.
Lane, from Postville, N.L., now shares her videos with close to 1,000 subscribers.
Growing up hunting, fishing and trapping on the land, she also sees the channel as a way to preserve traditional practices — something she says has resonated with audiences.
“That was our lifestyle, our livelihood I guess. They wanted to keep the tradition alive and didn’t want it to die out, and I kept it going…. And I started my YouTube channel just to show our lifestyle down the north coast,” she said.
“People from the States and all over the world have been watching it, and they’re really impressed of the things we do down in our area.”
Lane’s latest adventure took her to Gull Island, where hundreds of Innu and other community members came together for the annual Manishan Nui Community Gathering.
The gathering is a week long event that happens during the third week of each September, allowing the Innu and other Labrador communities to get back to nature and live off the land.
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