Flashback

Images 1 & 2 are taken from the approximate the same standpoint:

Image 1: Swanger's Cove (January, 1983) after a combination of unusually warm temperatures and heavy rainfall, ( Approximately 275mm), contributed to a rapid melt of snow cover and resulted in extensive damage to the main road in Swanger's Cove.

Image 2: Swanger's Cove (May, 2005) Main road was reconstructed and restored to service.

Images 3 & 4 are taken from the approximate the same standpoint:

Image 3: Swanger's Cove main road (January, 1983) after a combination of unusually warm temperatures and heavy rainfall, ( Approximately 275mm), contributed to a rapid melt of snow cover and resulted in extensive damage to the main road in Swanger's Cove.

Image 4: Swanger's Cove main road (May 2005) Main road was reconstructed and restored to service.

This photo was taken from Jessie's Nap in October, 2001. The flip photo was taken in 1963.
L-R: David Willcott and sons, Ralph and Stanley. The little boy is Stanley's son, John. The boat at the side of the wharf is "The Melvin", owned by Garland's Limited and operated by Phonse Willcott. Note the St. Alban's Trade and the Brown Stores on "the beach", the post office(dark building) on Birchy Point and the Telegraph Office (light building) further out on the Point. The Postmaster was Martin Davis and the Telegraph Operator was Mary Hunt. Previous telegraph operators included Mrs. Jenny Collier (Norman) and Vera Willcott (Engram).

The photo above was taken in October 2001 and the flip photo was taken in July, 1956. The sawmill belonged to Garland's Limited. The workers included Phonse Willcott who towed booms of logs to the mill with a boat called "The Melvin". Frank Howse operated the donkey which pulled the logs from the boom in the harbour to the trolley. Jim Skinner, was the sawyer who decided which cuts would get the most lumber from a log. George Haggerty was the dog driver who positioned the logs and used steel spikes to hold it in place for cutting. Tim Long removed slabs/lumber from the rip saw and moved it to the crosscut where it was cut to specific lengths. The slabs were thrown through a side door where Sam Howse would take them to the sawdust dump. Many people would collect these slabs for firewood as well. Jim Hoskins operated the crosscut. The ends of the wood that were cut off by the crosscut were "no good" for anything else and were locally known as "noggles". The workers would take these home for firewood. The lumber was then passed to Wallace Collier (Wm) who put it through the matcher/planer to plane the sides and mill the tongue and groove . Samuel Wm. Collier then collated the lumber and moved it to storage on the sawdust dump area. Sam Snook (Samuel/Geraldine) was the lumber shipper who looked after customers from Bay D'Espoir and along the south coast from Grand Bank to Ramea. Bert Hunt was the mechanic who kept the operation running smoothly.

This photograph was taken in 1967. Can you identify any of these young people ?