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1he Willilim White Collection of Sixteen Item s, DESCRIPTIVE MONOGRAPH Sect ion O l. 1ntrodudion I. These sixtee n ite ms we re salvaged from destruc tion many years ag o by the late William White (1859· 1949) of Trinity, T.8 ., Nfld ., and were donated to the Newfoundland Archives in May 196 1 by his daughter and so n, Miss M. M. Whit e and Mr. Walter G. C. White, St. John 's. Mr. White spe nt most of his long life at his nat ive Trinity, of whose h istor y he wa s a lifelo ng student see his articles o n Trinity history in THE NEWFOUND LAND Q UARTERL Y 1956-57. I knew him for many yea rs. 2. Most of the items are busi ne ss reco rds , chie fly of the first half of the 19th cen tury. All these business reco rds. except Item 9. may safely be taken as having been compiled by, or connected wi th, the Slade firm whose Newfoundland headquarters we re at Trinity. This identification is chiefly based on thes e circum stances, namely: a. The Shipping Papers and Ag reements. Item 11; the Lette rs, Item 12; two or three of the other records: nearly all show the Slade firm name of , N. C. CREWE the "Trinity Bay Stedes." b. Mr. White. having found this batch of records, many yea rs ago in a store on the for mer Slade premises at Hog 's Nose. Trinity, regarded them as of Slade origin or connection. T il E :'\riEW r OU l" ULA:'\ri 1) QI!ARTER I.l
When, in 186 1, the Trinity Bay Slade fi rm col. lapsed. Alexander Bremne r, of Catalina, then We stock only -,II an old man (but presumably still the firm's agent DISCOVE P Exhibition Size there) was the liquidator. He died there, and not long afterwards his two or three sons had !eft THE Bulbs Cata lina and his widow had gone 10 live et Trln. !!ill BUUTY and our pr ices ity, with he r daughter, Mrs . Humphrey Cole, the Of YOUR childless wife of the magistrate there. One son HOMEI are lowe r for Alexa nder Warren Bremner, had then long lived the quality Bulbs at Trinity and, afte r the 186 1 insolvency, he, in BUY partnership with Walter Grieve, a St. Joh n's we sell merchant, bought the Slade p rem ises at Hog's IMPORTED Nose , where the partnership carried on an ex TULIPS tensive fishery business as "Grieve and Bremner." The re seems no doubt that the surviving record s DUTCH DAFFODILS of the Slade branch at Catalina, in the old liqut. deter's hands, eventually travelled to near by BULBS HYACINTHS Trinity, 10 be stored away with the surviving NOW! ETC. I rtnitv ones, in son A. W. Bremner's keeping. Note . The word "ag ent' 'in old Newfound land ~ business usage down to the last forty years means "manage r." Write for Catalog ue ~ c.A large proportion of the names in these records are of family surnames still su rviving, or know n and Booklets to have been then ex isting, in the places where, or near where, the "Trinity Bay Sledes" carried GAZE SEED CO. on trade. 4 10 WATER STREET 3. In order to assist use rs of this Slade collection, PHONE 8-4328 ST. J O H~ _ and of other Slade records that are at the Archiv es, and J because all such reco rds represent cross-sections of old Newfoundland fishe ry-mercantile prac tice an d show examples of obsolete or obsolescent transactions and r:------( language, I have prepared this "Memorandum and Col lation Notes" paper 10 be placed on the Archives' shelves w ith the White Collect ion. Short title : The IFRESH . ( Slade Monograph. I as a flower in just one hour ( Some of the statement made below as to identiti es of the purchasers of, and of successive owne rs of, Slade premises are from definite knowledge, while I 1Hour ( I Martinizing MAIL ]I: I l FIRE INSURANCE I Effect it w ith the old , reliable and p rompt-paying I I ORDERS ( Comp an y • GIVEN. THE YORKSHIRE I PROMPT ( INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD. I ATTENTION ( LQSSF.5 BY GAS, l.J GHT l"' I ~ G AN D FO RF.."iT riwes ;":OT EXC £,PTFJ) . Ask for rates befoTt' i"suri"g t'l5t' I ( ",hal', All i"formatio" gladl y given . ~ HUGHES -MAYNARD ( Sterling, Ryan, Goodridge, Caule. , CLEANSERS LTD. Gushue & Goodridge I Telephone 92186 - 92187 ( Barristers, Solicitor s AGENTS I BLACKMARSH RD ST. JOHN 'S, NFLD ( I P. O. BOX 503 8 1__ "'::':S:':D::=~--I Phone 85061 _72 059 28 3 Duckworth St. T HE :'IiEWFOUl"\DLAl"\D Q UARTERL\'
- as cleer fv indicated are offered only as my im Collection on 29 April 1961, and the subsequent press olher~ons I have not thoroughly sought such infor release (DAilY NEWS, 6 May, and EVENING TEL E pre~Sln ai the Reg istry of Deeds , whe re relevant bills GRAM, 8 May), both list twenty items. l ate r the Cen 'fatlOle especilabrador. namely Battle Harbour and Ven ison Islands . 5. Note. The manusc ript rece ipt g iven by the Pro The parent house or houses were always at Poole , the vincial Archivist to the donors of this William White Newfoundland establishments being branches thereof,
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LISTE R & BLACKSTONE - STATIONARY & MARINE ENGINES - 3 to 1200 H.P. GENERATINGSETS- H" to 860 K.W. STOCKS CARRIED - Spues for Frick ReErige,.tion _ Uster Engines - Darling Pumps _ RustoleulT' Paints _ Calcium Chloride - Ammon i• CooI~ ~ I j ng .t ir sn - Freon and Full Service Oeputment, Air Cookd StllliODtl"J - I ~ 10 t 8 K.lV . 4'" H .P. up Tin : ="Ew r O UN UL A ;'\ri U QU A RT ERL\ ' the pr incip al local o ne of which (at Fog o) would in turn 1818; (cl, 1835;(e) 1864 ; (f), 1871. Of these da tes cont rol smal ler coastal br anc hes -althoug h, of course, the 187 1 one is the date on which the Battle Har bou; marchandise wou ld often be sent from Poole direct to premises we re sold to Messrs .Baine, Johnston & Co a coaslal branc h, and Its fishery produce shipped away of St. John's, by the two surviving Slad e ow ne rs, b~ t direct to ma rket. the Slade firm concerned had been carrying on at that place for pe rha ps a hund re d yea rs befo re then. I fee l certain that, ove r the above-named northern places, This g rou p of Slade es tablishments may be cal led the there must have been more th an one separately ow ned "Northern Slades." The se es tab lishments continued Slade firm, and more than one branch of the Slade active, at all or most of the places whe re they had been fami ly engaged as proprietors, managers o r clerks. founded, until the 1860's when the prop rietors sold out William Cox was a relative of the Slade family and , as and closed up-this was not an insolvent closing-up. I judge, he was a partner; his name was used in the I have encountered the following styles of firm name firm name; I also judge that he lived at Fog o, as the (but there we re probably others also):- agent of the firm.
(a) John Slade & Co. (at Fogo); The Battle Harbour premises were sold by Thomas and David Slade to Baine, Johnston & Co. in 1871, (b) Thomas Slade, Senio r & Co. (Fogo); and in recent years by them to Captain Guy Earle, of Cerboneer, the present owner. Those at Veni son (c) William Cox & Co. (Fogo, Twilli ngate and Greens Islands had bee n sold to the Rid leys, of Harbo ur Grace, pond; who later sold them to the Ro rkes, of Carbonear, the present owners. These two items of informatio n we re (d) Slade & Cox (another name for William Cox & recently given to me to Mr. Thomas W. Collingw ood, Col; of Baine, Joh nston's, St. Joh n's. It is stated in an ar ticle in the EVENING TElEGRAM, 27 May 1958 , that (e) John Slade & Co. (Fogo and Twillingate); the Battle Harbour premises had been established as long ago as 1698, p resumably by Sledes: Mr. Collinq wood is now trying to find for me the docum e nt in (f) Thomas & David Slade (Labrador). which this supposed fact is shown.
The dates of the ea rliest records on which I have The Slade premises at Greenspond, after later own seen the foregoing styles occur are: for (a), 1805; (b), ership in turn by Dominy's and Ryan's, are now ow ned
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~e Fishe rme n's Union Trading Co. At least one with business in Newfoundland or Labrado r, because S~de slore rema ins today . I ~ave ~en told by one I feel that the Labrador establishments were always branches of the Fogo headquarters, would not have 0fo~~ ~~~fa~~a ~~~ r:h ~~::~~ ~~~ r :;h;:a r; ~~ ~.n ~~~ been cont inued after Fogo closed down and were ~'so probable that Lander Gaylor, who lived at Greens closed for some yellrs before the prem ises and stores pond in the 1830 's, was also a manager or cle rk we re sold to Baine, Johnston and to Ridley in or be fore 1871. The Slade premises at Nipper 's Harbour we re, in recent years, owned by the late Roland G. Starkes, John 3lad~ WtS a Naval Officer at Twillingate about merchant, and the Slade records were destroyed only 1780 . . He was \un.doubtedly the John who ~ied ~ t llbout ten years ago. Poole in 1792, leflvmg a for tune of £70,000 g ame d in Ihe Newfound tend trade . I believe there was a branch at Sop's Island. A later John Slade , of Twilling ate , was the M.H.A. In 'Where the Fishers go ," the author, Rev. Father for Fogo distri ct in 1842 (see the Assembly's Journlll Browne, stetes that the re was also a Slade premises for 1843 , page 473 ). at St. Francis Harbour , Labrador , es tablished , like the other Labrador ones me ntio ned above, about 1790 by 2. Some time before 1839 , a Slede firm was es tab the glades of Fogo. lished et Carbo near. When , in 1838-39, the firm was liquida ted, insolven t, its style was Slade, Biddle & Co., The Newfoundland ROYAL GAZETIE of 27 May the partners be ing Robert Slade , Senior, Mark Seagar, 1B62 has a notice that the partnership between Thomas Robert Major and Rolles Biddle . With in a few years Slade and Thomas Cox, in bus iness at Poole and in before that , the re had been three Carbonear firms Newfoundland, under the style of William Cox & Co., styled respectively (ll) Slade & Elson (b) Harrison, Slade had that day been dissolved. A number of the sto res & Co., (c) Ledgard & Slade . John Elson was the first of the Northern Siades still exis t at Fogo, Twil lingate , named partner. It is very probable tha t the found er Greenspond and Batt le Harbo ur (and per ha ps e lse was Robert Slade, Senio r, and that he was the same where). The Ashbou rne firm at Twilling ate ow n a large Rober t who founded the Trinity firm, and that these store with a 1780-90 dete in its ga ble that bel ong ed successive firms car ried o n business on the one set of to the Slade s. premises, at Carbonear. The "Life of Philip Henry Gosse" recounts Gosse's seven-year clerical service So far as 1 know , this 1862 w ithdrawal of Thomas with Stade & Elson at Cerbcnear and at their branch Slede marks the lest active connection of any Slade at St. Mary's in the 1830'.s. John Willis Martin was
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3. About 1804, Rober! Slade, merchant of Poole established a business at Trinity . As the Trinity fore: shore had then long been all occupied, he must have bought out somebodv's premises ("room'l and per haps It"s I;'.n AllY '1illl@ his merchandise stock, or some vacant room. Very likely, he was a partner in the Northern Siad es now of TI.@ ¥@lIr setling up for himself. This firm, with its local headquarters always at WITH A BICYCLE FROM ••• Trinity, continued in the ownership of himself or his sons under the fol lowing successive sty les:- (al Robert Slade; Harris & Hiscock (bl Robe rt Slade & Sons ; (c) Slade & Kelson; LIM I TED (d) Exec utor s of Robert Slade, Senior; (e) Robert Slade & Co . COMPLETE LINE OF BICYCLES AND PARTS The dates of the earliest records on which I have 168 WATER ST. DIAL 85016 87552 seen the foregoing styles occur are: for (a), 4 Nove 1809 ; (b), 3 July 1820 ; (c), 15 Octr 1823 ; (d) 11 Deer I 1837 ; (e), 1 March 1850 . I ST. JOHN 'S, NFLO . Although the name of William Kelson was included I. _ in the third style, he was never II partner, but he was for many years after about 1810 the agent at Trinity. When the firm finally dissolved, insolvent, in 186 1, establishments were existing at Trinity, Catalina and Hants Ha rbo ur. LEDREWS This group may be called the "Trinity Bay Sledes." In 1838 the owners of the Slade firm of Trinity Bay were "Robert, Thomas and J ames, sons and executors EXPRESS LTD. of Rober t Slade, late of Poo le, merc hant, deceased ," to quote from an official document. By 1861 , Thomas TORBAY ROAD had died or withdrawn.
Your ALLIED VAN LINES Agent 4. Trinity An early Slade agent at Trinity was Joseph Gover, OVER 80 YEARS' EXPERIENCE who was succeeded about 1805·10 by William Kelson, Sen ior. I imagine that Kelson was succeeded by Alex IN THE MOVING BUSINESS exender Warren Bremner who, in partnership with I I Walter Grieve, bought out the premises (and pe rhaps the stock) after the Slade insolvency in 186 1, and LET LEDREW'S GIVE YOU THE BENEFIT OF the re after managed the new firm of Grieve and Brem ner on the premises. After Bremner's death, Grieve THEIR EXPERIENCE sold his interest in the firm to Bremner's son, Robe rt Sweetland Bremner, who carr ied on under his own LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE MOVING name until he went insolvent about 1900. I do not know who owns the premises now . ·MOVING ·STORING ·PACKING William Kelson, Junior, nephew of William, Senior, lived for sometime on the Labrador, but for many years DIAL 96085 - 90522 in Trinity before his death by drowning. I su spect that he was a cle rk with the Slade firm at Trinity, but P. O. BOX 5520 I know he was never the agent. The present bell in SI. Paul's Anglican chu rch at Trinity was presented by Robert Slade in 1833. nil: :\E\H "Ol):\UI. \ :\ 1J Q " .H t I HtL\
in service at the Trinity heedquerters, William Brem 5 ne r, from his having marr ied et He nts Harbour a girl A early , perhaps the earl iest, Slade agent at Cere of that place, Ann Tilly, (d aug hter of Scholar John Tilly), I' nwas Jame s Lanniga n, who (see Mosdell's "When wes perhaps a clerk for some time there with the firm . ma That ') was sent enc ed in 1822 to jail and depor :~i~n Me ws's successor w as Mr. Ja mes H. Watson , an Eng for larceny of fun ds from his e mployer, Slade lishmo!ln, who bought out the pre mises at the 1861 in & Kelson. solvency end carried on business himse lf there. Later, lann ingan's successor was Alexa nder Bremner , a the prFm\:io.es were owned by Ih~ two St. John 's firms Scotsman who came out from his native Nairn to New foundlo!l nd in 1811 and soon after ward s entered the ~~ i~~b f~:t~jGh:n~ s~~~~~~~~~~ ta~~~ ~~~ , ~~~ Slade employ at Trinity wh e re he ma rried Ann White Archibald Targett and , tod ay, the Janes family-all, (or Lander), later removing to Cata lina, whe re he wa s except largett, cond ucted business thereon. One or the last Slade agent. All his larg e fam ily were born two Slade stores remain. at Catalina, the eld est son bei ng William and anot her Alexander Warren. At the 1861 Slade insolvency, Hon. Stephen Rendell , an Englishman and one of Alexander, and /or his younger sons , John and Duga ld the lea d ing St. John's bus iness managers (with Job bought the Catalina premises and conducted their own Brothers) in the later 19th century, lived at Hents Har business thereon for a few yea rs until they sold out , bour for the first part of his life in Newfoundland, and Alexander then became magistrate, soon afterwards mer-led there a Miss Norris, daughter of a Methodist dying; Dugald had already died, and John moved min ister. It is possible that he was connected with o!Iway from Catalina. Part of the Slade premises, in the Slade firm . cluding a surviving store , is now owned by Mr. Albert Hicks. 7. New Hubour John Noo n, resid e nt for some years about 1825 at The Trinity Slade headquarters established an early Cato!llina, where one of his wives has a headstone in branch here , and very likely carried on shipbuilding; the United Church cemetery, appears to have been a they bu ill a large house for the agent's res idence. The clerk or storekeeper at the Slade firm . There was later branch was closed, and the hou se and the extensive on a teacher at Brigus , C.B., named John Noon , per premise s, on what has long been known as Newhook's haps the same man. Point, we re sold to John Bingle y Garland & Co., of Trinity. About 1850 , house and premises were bought 6. by the local sh ipbu ilder , Charles Newell Newhook, In 18-47 the Slade agent here was James Lockyer whose granddaughter, Mrs. Reg inald Woodman (nee Mews, an Englishman, who had earl ier spent some time (Continued on page 3-4) AFE Ltd. Electronics Deportment DESIGN, ENGINEERING, INSTALLATION AND MAINTENANCE FOR EVERY TYPE OF elECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
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( h n ono l< 'lt i al ll ~ It,.. " h" liIlR i"du~tr, in Pri<.r (0 19001. onl y 1" 0 Hlmpan i... wer ... h and "o'l.lhrorl~ , III Can ada H arbo r '\ , ..-folllldl" ntl UTIle rarher 1;,11('" "-h.. ,, W.. "nll:"'Rffi in Ihe "'halilll': irulu~I~- in :"i...... (HI Ib~ ~OJI~" c.. ...~ of ~ {"lO' fou nd · wmpa'" il 10 ils nrh lqin ni" go. In Iouudland. The Cabot <'I<"am Wb aling land. and for appro\",1 of a IX lo rl Ihro Iarer pu t of rhe LiIlC' ..I,..... :,, ~, C... mpan~ Ix,;!;an opna liom in lhe }'..u sil" in St . I.unai~ I»}. 10 be granted 10 IhC' pa>pks of IhC' i ~bll '" and ~ 1fl9ll, and The :\"no'foundlaml W ha linI': rbe'- :-.;....,fo .... dland SIea m Wb alin !t" r.-gi on ~ of '\ onhC'n. huo..., wC'rC' wh"k Company in 1900. It didn't tal.. Ionll: Co"'pan~ Lid .• St . John'~ , :'\_F. hunl inl/,: . Pn ·histori c p""plC' had many for th e merc hants 10 norc th.....ontl ..rflll Ila rni al 'I. J oh n · ~ . this 3rd day of u,," lor rne "-h,, ln wh ich th.., n Ull:h l. '\I{('f" of tbese two companies tn- \ fa rm .' _Il. 1903. Cumht.. m" llo-IS. lnif" h"r"IlN w"r .. mad e ...alTalltoed ro nfisca tjon of th .. ind m u)" AI..x \ ldlo:lll;all "f "'h "le hone. W.. ca n " u IIM" Ih at the Wal eh....-ll"d by Ih.. I..-,;j, lalure wh trb lI erald . 3. 10. 17, 24, 31 \ la reh ~'P I " "I Cre te am i " hoeu ici a were pas-~ an .-\CI in l!lO2. lhe act W a ~ 7. H, 2 1 Apri l pr" hah l ~ Ih,· kad"n in "h"l" hllnting t'tl lit lffi. ~ .\ n .o\{t 10 R";~lI la t l' , b.. W hal · T h..n- w...r... numerous applications for in 1"",,-" ..atl ~ limC"i .i n,e Ih.·, did the inK l ndu srrv". 2 Edward \"11, Cap. 11. Ihe whalinR llrenscs. In rhe in terests major ill or "'a t ra...·1 an,1 u"dC' in th.. Under th.. mn dirion~ and provieions of of Iht, indu sl l)·. th... Ilum h.... o f Iacrories " ..dnerranean Sea. r o.. ", IhC' di nrl t his Art . il "'U required h} ]a". for rhe was lim it....1 to SM'enr(>(-n in th... Colon,· pow.·r....1 "'h"tinR f1,'t"1 i ~ a RTt"at lm applicants to gin' nOliff' of th ei r in of :-';"""fuun d la nd ami (i n ' in L.ab rador . prou'menl over Ihe' sl in hoal an d Ilone" tenrion to 3 pp l~ for a Hcence ill the I' h..,., ....-r.. 1"',·n l,'·I\\ O applicatiOfls ap · point ed 'p,,'ar of tbr pn'hisloric peoples. Royal Gazen..., anti in th.. loca l n.....'· pm.'....!. and Ihe f"llowinR ar.. a rew It was,,'1 until 1'.,.0 lha l th .. Span ish p apt"!' b y eight d,h TTlil("m"lllS. T he fo l· (·xample.: lIasqun who h"d lo"g ,-h"'I...1 l he G n-at lowin g is an example of a not ice take n T he applic ation uf T he Colonial Man "" " lh"TIl Riltl" Whal., in the na y of from T he E\ en inl': I lt'rald of 'f an h 3. IIfMlnrin ll" CU'" l'any for a Whaling I\i'ca., inault"rale.1 th .. whaling induslr y 1!lOO: Fad ' ory at Xorth We51 A rm , T rin ilY 8 ay. ill :\".....'fouudland \\ 'al<'l"'I. II was the NOTICE The application of Colin Ca mpbell, :\o....·"'I\'ial1 whah- n wlio lntrodur..
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Howe ver for that artide the pictures went astra y somewhere and did not appear in that issue. We are now includ ing some of them here, particularly lord Gambier, who had been the Governor of Newfoundland just a few years before the war of 1812 .-He was therefore able to render practical services on the fisheries of British America- a big issue in the peace . Since my last articles on this subject I was able to find a report by Alfred H. Bulger , son of Captain Bulger on the domestic side of The peace end the part played T h(" (; h. 'll l 01 lUll ,(";or\ ago by an officer of The ROy diens in 18 12. . . Fear ing that he and his imme. d iate officers might be sacr ificed by disappointed and wrathful Ind ians 8ulger had informed the g arr ison to rema in under arms at the fort ... The firin g of a royal salute at the fort concluded the ceremony. T...... o day s later Capta in Bulger and his command evacuated Fort McKay taking w ith them the artillery and other publ ic stores." (Bruce E. Mahan."O ld Fort Crawford and the Fra n. tier , Pub lished at Iowa City, Iowa , in 1926 by the State Histor ical Society of Iowa .) L. sI Days of the British . , Pr. irie d u Chien CiHtl lll , i'lJl ' Iuna.w l'}' ..-hru" l hr T ITOl I,· 01 Gl lt"1II " -a\ ~ i~ n...t. a nd .. h....1T lh.... 8riti_h d d <1rol' n rl"' idffi . By Alfred Ed ward Bulge r (son of Captai n Bulge r) (Published in the collections of the State Histor ical S0 had long since concluded a treaty of peace. About ciety of Wiscons in, Edited and arranged by Reuben the midd le of Ap ril, 181 5 Bulger received a letter Gold Thweites , at Mad ison, Wisconsin, and publish ed from Gove rno r Clark at 51. lou is stating that pe ace by the State Printer in 1895. Vol. 13 of the collectio ns. had bee n restored between the United States and Dr. Thwaites is the author of numerous histo rical boo ks on the old Notrh Wes t.) Great Britain. Bulge r had bee n planning to ca rry the war to St. louis and had actua lly assembled "Althoug h in the heart of the Ind ian te rritory, at Pelrle du Chien a large force of Indians." the little band was not discou raged, ne ithe r ...... ere they alarmed for the safety of the Fort whic h had The news of peace alarmed the Commander for he full y expected the savages to ve nt the ir wrath upon been entrusted to the ir care ; nevertheless they took eve ry precaution to guard aga inst su rprise. the ga rrison . . ... if was not unlil May 20th thet During the rema inder of the w inte r, every pre Capta in Bulger rece ived official word of the restora tion of Peace, then calling the Ind ians together in a genera l ca ut ion w as made for the spri ng operations . The council .. . he info rmed the m of the treaty." fort was strengthen ed , and put into a proper stete of defence. Spec ial care w as take n to have on "In the presence of man y ch iefs he spread a be lt of hand an amp le supply of ammuni tion and pro wampum, such as had been used in calling out the In- visions." NEW DELUXE BLEND GOOD LUCK Wait till you tas te Made from the purest New Good Luck vegetable ails It's THE FRESHEST Margarine on the Island! It's true New Good Luck is the onl y Margarine that 's made fresh every day rig ht he re in Newfoundland . .. and it's sealed in an airtight foil w rap to p rotect its freshness . .. kee ps flavour in ... keeps stray odo urs ou t. Made Fresh Daily Right Here in Newfoundland TIlE l"; EWFOUNDLAND QUA RTERLY - "In regard 10 the letter. a stock "Early in the month of Ap ril, a of wild me at was collected, and dispatch reached Pairie du Chien stored in an ice-house. From a from Lieut. Colonel ocoougall, com mine in the vicinity , an abund manding al Mackinac, announcing ance of lead was obtained, and a the breaking up of the congress at large supp ly of ball and shot Ghent and the consequent failure prep lHed, ready for any emer of the negotiations for peace. The gency. A supp ly of gunpowder principal cause was the qU8!otion re- was however, more difficult to lating to the Indians. ". ." \ obt;in. Most of th is art icle had "Ag reeably to arrangemants to be drawn upo n hand-s leds, wh ich had been previously made over snow and ice, a d istance of w ith the tribesmen, there arr ived at more than fou r hundred miles . Prairie du Chien , the firsl week of 'But all these pro visions and Apr il, upwards of twelve hundred stores. collected from all parts of w arriors of d ifferent tribes , fu lly that vast lerritory large as they eq uipped for war . Upon no other may appear, were found to be occasio n in the course of the war tolally inadequate to supply a had so cho ice a body of Indians half of the Indians who we re ex been arrayed under the British flag , pected to take part in the com and a reserve of at least another ing campaign. The most impcr thousand had engaged themselves tent point now to be decided to join the expedition when sum upon was, wh ethe r it would be moned to do so ." advisa ble to re main on the de "At a council held at the council fens ive or mee t the enemy at the house, a short distance from the mouth of the Rock River, the fort, amid all the ceremony custom scene of Lieut . Duncan Graham's successful en counter with the ary on these occasions, the Gov Americans on September 6, 1B14. ernor's message was made known II was de te rmined to carryon to the Indians. 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THLY CHARGE • REVO LVIN G CHARGE ACCOUNT • BUDGET • LA YA W AY ....WHEN YOU SHOP ROYAL STORES Tin : ....t:WF O Ul"UL,\:"riU Q,ll ,\RTF.R U ' p ressed, in very angry terms, thei r "MlIlters were in this state when determination not to abide by the on May 20th (1815), the oHicilli treaty," dispatch announcing the pe ace was "The council bro ke up on confu received from Lt-Col. McDoual1 sion, all the chiefs excepting two comrnendinq lit Mackinac (The Ed: leaving the council-house in a svl ite r then adds a note thus:-"In his len humour, and retiring 10 their letter to Governor Clark Captain respective lands. Among the gen Bulger says that this news reached eral body of Indians an ext reme de him on the nnd. Doubtless this gree of excitement was visible; so was lin error of the pen, apparently much so, that there even eppeered the 20th is the correct date, e ther. reason to apprehend that ects of wise there would have been no hostility would be directed against time for the council here reported , the garrison at Fort McKlIY," for Bulger reported to McDouall that "Every precaution was imme he evecuared on the 24th). Alfred diately taken to guard against any E, Bulger gives the date as the 20th, such attempt. For nearly 1I fort which is doubtless correct. Gov night the garrison remained un ernor Clark's leiter of March 22nd der arms in the fort, Captain Bulger arrived at Prairie du Chien April passed a portion of each day in the 16th but Captain Bulger appears to 1.()I{1J J\\IL\ (;\\lIl1lR council-house, accompanied by an heve welted five weeks, until after Fi,,' of ' h.. IIri l;,h Rt"I" llI;olI;H .. on officially informed of the peace, be Ill.. Ghc-nl Pr:w.. ( :O ni"i.. n interpreter for each tribe, holding conferences with the chiefs and fore replying to it) (I might ad d here recall the wer-perties in edvence, principal men, He endeavoured by that Captain Bulger was not tak ing and befo re May 10th over eight every means in his power to influ orders from St. Louis, but fro m his hundred lndie ns had returned to ence them in favor of the treaty of superiors in Canada, so he waited Fort McKay in a state of great ex peace; and as fresh bands were until these authorities in Cened a citement and indignlltion." continually arriving he experienced sent him word what to do, R,S,) "Intelligence of peace having little results from this wearisome "Acting upon the inst ructions spread throughout the country, the duty." ...... hich he then received, Captain number of Indians assembled at "Meanwhile great enxlety wes Bulge r lost no time in making nec Prairie du Chien hed largely in felt by everyone within the fort. essary preparations fo r the offlciel creased, and included all the head No one was pe rmitted under any decla rlltion of peace to the Indian s chiefs of the neighboring tribes. To pretense to leave the fort durin g of the Mississippi. The colour of these letter, the provis ions of the his absence at the counci l. Eve ntu the great war belt---on which we re treaty, es received from Governor ally many of the most influential of represented the "castle" of St. louis, Clark, respec ting themselves lind the chiefs we re brought to view the and the Ind ian nations hand -in-hand the lndlens generally, we re an treaty in a more favou rable ligh t, with their English fathe r-was im nounced by the comma nding offi Some tribal still contin ued strongly medtetelv changed from blood-red ce r, at a scectel counci l w hich he to oppose it. Yet from the sub the symbol of wa r, to blue, the em held with the m for thllt purpose, dued tone of thei r hea d-men, the re blem of peace," But as the conditions assu red to app eared reaso n to hope that they the m we re not such as they had wou ld yet be persuaded to abid e "The pipe of peace was prepa red been led to expect, the chiefs ex- by its te rms," and beautifully deco rated after the 1--- NIGHT or HOLIDAYS PHONE 9-0475 GEO. SUMMERS & SONS TORBAY ROAD GENERAL TRUCKING We u e ~u ipp ed to han dle all kind s of Heavy Machinery AT YOUR SERVICE AT ANY TIME Rrd LaL.. ( :hi rf ;0.00 h j ~ ILmd .i.itinJ: C.o . ..rno r Bul~r ;0. 1 Fori IJouJ:w -c-Court...5\ of th .. Publi( .\nhi\,('11 of D ,,;t T HE ~EWFOUNULA N() Ql1AR TEKL\ ' .. •\ ..-:011<1 form 116, foUo." ,h . bl.....kf 'h u'nl' bl!'l!llorijtlll,111 fillo:J !;o...\t b ~~ 1I, but the • •lllplt nv.iJ h u ai D,...,r. ,I..J <>\1.1 : :1l! 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Indian fashion, and an add ress on the name of the King being make the ceremony solemn and e f drawn up to be delivered to them mentioned, the flag was instantly fective, .. . a message was the n on this impo rtan t occasion, Fo r the to be hoisted over the council sent over to the fort to notify the conven ience of interpretation, it house. adjutant of th is fact . .. ." had been caref ully prepared in (3) On this signal being given, a "Before leaving the fort to attend short paragraphs , and its heading royal salute was to be fired from the council, the commanding officer was in these word s: the fort, told the troops that the dUfy he was "To the brave and faith ful about to perform was one in which (4) The commanding office r hav not only his own life, but the lives the chiefs and warriors of the ing been wa rned that an attack nation s of the Mississippi from of those who accompanied him, would cer tai nly be made on the migh t be sacri ficed. To guard their Grea t Father the King of ga rrison if any steps should be Eng land , throug h the Great Chief against treachery, every prec aution taken to deliver up Fort McKay . , , representing His Majesty at Q ue ha d been take n, The tr oop s we re he had thou ght proper to be p re bec," 10 re main unde r arms wit hin the pa red; should the re be any treach fo rt and the gale w as to be kept 'While these preparations we re ery, o r any attem pt on the pa rt of closed un til he ret urned . If he re being comp leted in the fort, seve ral the disaffected Ind ians to reve nge tu rned, we ll and g ood , if not, they officers and interprete rs of the In the msel ves by an open attac k on knew what he e xpec ted them to do. d ian depar tment were occupied in him or his officers and their live s Captain Bulger then left the fo rt, the coun cil-house ar ranging for the were in da nge r of be ing sac rificed, accompanied by Captain Ande rson cere mony. At o ne end of the build he would instantly lower the flag , , . and severa l other officers," ing, dire ctly under one of those ove r the council -house. large openings in the roof, which "On arriving at the cou ncil-house (5) On that signal being given, answered the doub le purpose of e large number of Ind ian s su rround admitting light, and allowing smoke the guns of the fort we re to be ed it. Inside , it was crowded to to escape, a sma ll platform was er ready to open fire on the Ind ians excess, upwards of seventy chiefs ected and cove red with blue doth. the moment they were observed to and principal war riors being seated On this was a chai r for the com make any hostile move towards in thei r usual manner on the manding office r. To the rig ht of supporting thei r chiefs inside the ground, forming three sides of a this platform, a flag staff was er council-house. square, in the opening of which the ected . . ," "Captain Bulge r hoped, in such a commanding officer (Captain Bul contingency, that with the aid of ge r) took seat, surrounded by his "It had been arranged to com staff ." munic,ate with the fort during the a few faithful warriors he and his cconcal, by sign als, the following officers migh t, in the confusion that "Captain Bulg er had ha rdly taken prOQramme bein g arrange&- would natu rally insue , escape to his seat, when a gun was fired from the fort under protection of the the fort , announcing the opening of (I ) at the hou r appointed for the guns." the council. The re upo n the prin c~u nc i l to open, a gun was to be "T he morning of May 22nd was cipal inte rpreter advanced into the s fired from the fort, to announce the time appointed for the final middle of the square, and unfold- • that fact to the Ind ians ." ceremonies in connection with the ing the gr eat belt of wampum (.2) T~e mom e nt the commanding declaration of peace, The officers placed it on the g round so that it o.fflcer Informed the ch iefs and war of the Indian Department had com might be seen by all the Indians noes asse mbled that he was about pleted all the necessary ar ran ge assembled within the house. The to de liver a mess age from the King , ments within the council-house, to belt thus e xhibited was the sa me TIl E ;'\iE.WFOU;SDL A:"I: 1l QUAR T ERLY which had been used in 1812 , in "This Captain Anderson did from namented acco rdin g to the Ind ian summoning the tribes of the Miss a written speech, in which they custom, and presented to the COm_ issippi to join the wa r, at which time were solemnly enjoined to observe manding officer, who. haVing its appropriate color was red ; but the same. The ... treaty secured smoked it for a moment in silen ce upon the present occasion it was them in the rights to which they presented it to the nearest wa r: _of a blue colour, which repre were entitled before the War , and ch ief. The pipe was then prese nted sented peace, and was a warrant Great Britain became the guarantor in succession, by Renville, to the to the tr ibes that they might place of those rights; but the lands that other ch iefs and warriors in the confidence in what the commend had been promised to them by their council. They engaged to bury the ing officer should state to them in Father the " Red Head " in the name war-club, and to conform to all the the name of the King the ir great of the British Government, the Am conditions of the peece.' father .. ." er icans refused to give up . (The editor here expletns that " Red "The entire proceedings, w hich "The commanding officer then Head" was the Indian nickname for had occupied nearly five hou rs, te r. directed Captain Anderson to In Dickson, "a red-haired Scot)" mineted with a salute of nineteen form the Indians that a ccrnmunice guns, from the fort announcing the tion from the highest authority was "All the terms of the treaty we re termination of the war on the Uppe r about to be made known to them ca refully explained to them .• . Mississippi; and in a little mo re than in the name of the King their great In re ply, all the chiefs one after an hour after the breaking up of father. This having been inter the other, stood up and spoke, the council messengers we re on preted by lieutenant Renville on some of them in noble and affect their way to p roclaim the ree stab the name of the King being men ing terms. The head wa r-chief of lishment of peace, in the pri ncipal tioned, the flag was immediately the Sacs... (The Editor here ex Indian villages throughout the run up over the council-house, and plains that this doubtless was "Black Northwest. " a royal salute of twenty-one guns Hew k") declared he would follow was fired from the fort . On the the good counsel which had been Glosury termination of the salute, wh ile a conveyed to them .. but that he deathlike silence prevailed through could not answer for his people, if C4Iptiilin Thomu G. Anderson: At out the whole assembly, Capta in any new act of aggression should Prairie du Chien as commandant un Bulger instructed Captain Anderson be comm itted aga inst them. .. til arrival of Captain Bulger who re to make known to the Ind ians that "Similar sentiments having been placed h im. Attached to the Indian peace had been declared between expressed by the other chiefs . Lieut. Department of Upper Canada. 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JOHN'S " T HE SE WFOUro;llLAN() QUARTERLY PROVISCE OF :"'riEWFO UNDLAND DEPARTMENT OF MINES, AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCES There's A Mining Boom in Newfoundland TRAINED MEN ARE NEEDED DURIN G THE PAST YEAR NEWFOUNDLAND PROOUCED . 100% of Cana da's fluorspar 100% of Cana da's py rophyJlite 30% of Canada's iron ore 13% of Cene de's lead 7V2% of Canada's zinc 4% of Canada's copper and , significant amou nts of gold, silver , limestone, gypsum and cement. NEWS MI NES ARE BEING DEVELOPED : (1) The Carol Project of the Iron Ore Co. of Canada started initial production last year and will be brought to full capacity in 1963 . (2) The asbestos property of the Advocate Mines ltd. at Baie Verte will go into production in 1963 . (3) Another huge iron ore mine in labrador to be operated by Wabush Mines continues its const ructio n prog ram aimed at initial production by 1965 . (4) A shaft 10 deve lop the Wha leback cop pe r dep osits of the British New found land Exp lora tion Co. Ltd. starte d in 1962 and is expected to be comple ted in 1963. (5) Encouraging e xploratio n is taking place in man y more location s. Trained men are in great demand-mining e nginee rs, ge olog ists, prospect o rs, const ructio n men and trades-men of all kinds are needed in increasing number s eac h year. DEPARTMENT OF MI NES, AGRICULTURE AND RESOURCES ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND TU E :\ E ".' FO Ul\ Il L\~1l Q UAKTt:RL\' " Early Notes of Harbour Grace 1836-37 by (Mrs.) May Davis Our notes may seem rambling Included list of Justices Peace lire Sept. 26th . Creditor of Chas. but they are take n fro m scribblings I hos. Danson; R. J. Pinsent; Chas . Cozen s, insolvent asked to meet at in an old book and cou ld ha ve some Cozens; Wm . Sterling; Rebert P~k; C. F. Bennett's office re final divi interest for read ers; Peter Brown ; Thos chencev, J hn de nds . Elson; Richard Rank in; and Ch s. tober 3rd . Died at Hr. Grace Election candidates for four seats Newhook; John Starkes; Thos. Rid Oc are Messrs. Pack, Power and Brown ley; Robert Prowse and R. Brown . Rev. William Ellis aged 56 , a native the old members and Mr. Godfrey of Down Ireland but living in this of Brigus, and Messrs . Ridley, John Hiscock Cozens lind Chas . island for 29 ye ars. Leaves wife Prowse and New ell of Carbonear. Cozens late of Barren Islands insol and 5 child re n. The letter has withd raw n his p re ve nt. October 17th . Schr. Rosalind , tens ions because of intimi dations Chas . P. Bennett and Geo . Mor· Watts master from Hamburg arr ived and Mr. Prowse may also withd raw. John's. gan appointed trustees and Thos. at St. A long list of names headed by Selby Placentia Bay is appointed November 21st . Powerful light John Munn and Geor ge Thorne was agent. p laced on Hr. Grace Island. A tax prese nted to Thos. Ridley but was impo sed on all ships entering among the 250 nam es there were One hundred licensed publicans Conceplion Bay to help defray ex few Roman Catho lics. On Nov . in St. John's. pen se of th is light . Commission gth, Mr. Ridley, inde pe nde nt can e rs. Wm . Sterling; Jes. Bayley; didate , retired from the contest. Jan. 10th . Dwelling house of Robt. Prowse, Port de Grave de Thos Ridley; Wm . Punton; Thos. This was brou g ht about by a mob Chancey. of abou t 1500 chiefly from Carbon stroyed by fire . ear. lawlessness regarding elec November 28th . One hundred lions is present. Population of Newfc cndle nd , eighty five pounds g ranted for 80,000. br idges at Hr. Grace; Martins Brook; On Dec. 6t h, Thorne & Hooper, March 21st . 121 vessels clear Foxes ; Prendergasts and at Bears Harbour Grace was granted a Bond Cove. Store. for sealfishery. May 9th . Mr. Wm.Johnston of December 19th. Prope rty John Dec. 13th. A notice of the sale Brown deceased for safe. of fishing esta blishme nt at Isle Baine Johnston & Co. died lit Valen P.B. and formerly occupied Greenock. Dece mber 26th. Ste phen Clive by J. C. Cozens and Spurrier Co. June 27th. Died er Brig us. Peck, Bay Robe rts merchant mar with War ren lslend Rooms, was Robe rt Dob ie su rgeon a native of ries Emma, dau gh te r of George noted. Fife, Scotland. Bayley, controller of St. Joh n's. The partn ership of Slade Biddle Januar y 2nd. James Stewart of Co. wes dissolved. August 15th. " High lander" Capt . Munde n enters St. John's. St. John's, merch ant of J as. & W. Decembe r 20th . Tende rs we re Stewart dies at Green ock. asked for to build bridges over the August 2nd . William Wilking Bulle y, li ver pool, Ro bt. Brown Decem be r 9th. Cc-Pert ners htp of Goulds at Sea l Cove to be sixty feet Slade & Ke lson d issolves . Did b usi and 45 feet respectively. Brigu s, under firm of Robt. Brown Jun ior Co. dissolved. ness at Trinity; Hants Harbo ur; Decembe r 27fh . t hemes MlIrks, Hea rts Content and Catalina. Busi Hr. Grace, inso lve nt and John Eale s James Hippisle y deceased, for ness will be car ried on by e xecutors trustee. merly of Bristol. of Robt. Slade. MacCO RM A C'S DRY CLEANING, LTD. THE MOST DEPENDABLE DRY CLEANING SERVICE IN N EWFOUNDLAND GEAR STREET DIAL 85181-85182-85183 RECE IVING OFFICE- 1 ADELAIDE ST. P. O. BOX 995 b T IU: :'\iE:WHHiNIH .A :'\iU QUARTt:RU Fe b. 7th. Co-Partne rship of C. F. in every part and clear of stumps merchant Hr. Grace to Naom i, eld. Be nne tt and Geo rge Morgan dis and timbe r. est daughter of William Munden solves . Carried on fishing business (July 21st). Regulations made re clogging of known as C. F. Bennett & Co. dogs and yoking of sheep. October 2nd . Died at Brigus Julia 1839 . Sealing fleet less than last relict of Robt. Dobie, su rgeo n and June 19th . Partnership of Craw daughter of Thomas Danson aged year's. Coast blocked with ice and ford and Cormack , Bay Roberts . vessels now jammed over a fort 21 years . night in port. Reported seals be July 17th. One hundred fifty October 23rd . Entered "High ing killed by landsmen. Newman pounds g ranted to defray the salar lander" Munden and Messenger, & Co. largest suppliers 14, Baine ies of Police and Magistrate at Hr. Walts from Copenhagen and Ham Johnston & Co. 12. Grace, being eighty five pounds burg. of that for Hig h Constable. 1838. Te nder s for new road to November 6th . Put ston e bridge open line towa rds Salmonier from July 24th. Married at Brig us by ove r Sampsons Brook. Hr. Grace, Holyrood 24 feet and 12 feet wide Rev, T, G. He nneg ar , John Munn, grant fifty pounds. BIDGOOD 'S WHOLESALE LTD . G OULDS, ST . J OH N'S W EST WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS GROCERIES AND PROVISION S SOUTHERN SHO RE - PL ,\Cf.:'\iT I.\ - RO S AVL'IT A PRODUCERSOF " BIDGOODS" QUALI TY SALT FISH and SMOKED fiSH PRODUCTS -\VAILABLE THRO UGH O UT NEWFOUNIlLAND '1.-\1 :'Ii O FfiCE xxn WAREHOUSE c;O l 'UlS, ST. 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" ."OOK .....'N ' T""n _ ' TI" HI' '' V' L L", DIA L 85126 THE l'IiEWF O U N IlL,\ :'Ii1l Q t L\ KTt:K U A Belated Report of the Ninth Anniversary ~cn' .-Iun of Newfoundland Picnic in California,-1963 To S~n'c By GLADYS CASPERSEN \ ror (nh'crsif;o' NOTE:We put this report of The adults entertained themsel A pay-now-go-later plan p rovid the Newfo undland picnic for ves with Bingo, Bean count, Grab ing a four-year university cou rse for 1963 in California which was bag, etc.. while many sat around the price of one year has been in received TOO tete for our Sum and visited. Door prizes were also stituted in the Montreal area by mer EdiTion because of its local given and one lucky winner was the National College Scholarship inTerest.-Ed. the recipient of a large basket of Foundation. groceries. On Ju ne 23, 1963 the Newfound The plan is open to any child, at land Club of California held iTs an Around 3 p.m . a long line-up ap present eight years of age or youn g nual picnic in. lynwood Park. The peared nea r the rostrum . Mr. Sey er . A parent or adult nominates to morning was a lit tle cloudy, the mour Kay was in charge of the re the plan a child he hopes will event usual June weather but by noon the cording operations. Mr. larry Crow ually enter un iversity. The sub sun was shinin g and a beautiful af der performed as Master of Cere scriber ag rees to pay a specified ternoon followed . monies. Because of the large num amount month ly in an account bers who wished to get a message opened in his name with the Gen Mrs. Bernard Forsey was in through to their friends and fam eral Trust of Canada. charge of deco rations and as a re ilies, it is understood that the tape The principal accumulated by the sult of time and thoug ht given by will have to be used in sections , and time the child is ready for college her and her commitTee, the tables broadcasted at different times. It is returned intact to the subsc riber were espec ially attract ive, covered will be mailed immediately to to pay the child's first yea r at uni with pale g reen paper, set off with CJO N Broadcasting Station , who versity . The inte rest paid on the containers of d ifferent hues and has so graciously made this con principal is donated to the N.es. patterns, containing home grown tact possible every year and thus Found ation. This inte rest is held roses and fe rns. This beautiful pic contributed grea tly to our picnic. by the Trust Company until it is ture broug ht praise from ou r memo needed to finance the student's sec bers and comme nts from passers-by A meetin g was held for the pur ond, third and fourth yea rs at uni pose of e lecting office rs for the ve rsity. The alle nd ance as usual was coming year. In the absence of good, an estimate of two hundred, the President who has move d out The organization is charter ed including a large group who have of town , Mrs. Seymour Kay was ap with the Federal Gove rnment as not missed a picnic yet, also many point ed chai rma n pro-tem . a non-p rofit, cha ritable fou nd ation young couples with their fami lies. and is not conce rned with comp eti New members were in large num tive leve ls of academic achie ve bers, some of whom rece ntly ar The followi ng Office rs were el ments. rived in California were eager to ected: An ana lysis estimates that at lea st meet people from home. $ 1,500 each year will be availab le President- Cathy Kay. to cover every student's cost of tui luncheon was served pot-luck . l st Vice Pres .- Bernard Forse y. tion, boo ks, room and board. The Three long pa rk tables were added Secre tery-I reas. - Brenda Kirk, student may atten d any unive rsity to the area to accommodate the of his choice in Canada and , at the abundance of food of unbelievable lorr aine Crowder Assisting. d iscretion of the Founda tion Board, variety. la ter on plenty of ice cream a university ou tside Canada . was availab le for those who wished Picnic Chairman-Carmella Ke lly. A staff of counsellors is available to help the mselves. for consultation and subscriber e n Childr en's Christmas Party Chair ro llment for the provinc e of New During the afternoon the chil man - larry Crowder. foundland. The chief enrollme nt dre n were occupied with games and officer for Newfound land is Mr. races with Mr. larry Crowder as Gladys Caspe rsen John l. Chafe, and his add ress is leader. Prizes were awarded to 1087 1 Sampson Ave., Box 5066 , St. Joh n's, Nfld.; busi children of all ages . lynwood, Calif. ness telephone num be r is 8-2 788. The Greenspond Saga In History , Song and Story By DR. ROBERT SAUNDERS, J.D . (Dr. Juris) Gra du al" of Bo ston . 'vr u: }' ork. Col um bia. Rutgru and ! OlJ.'QStore U m l' t"rslt ies. the C olfffJf of l au: 0'-51. pours and .\ h nnropolis. Diplormu In lnternationul A ffairs. Unicrrslllj of .\finnt'wla. around wh ich all secondary and subordinate places reo I ~~b~i~~~ ~t~~~~Jn:~~tn~~ew~~~u:a~j:~~ ~;;:C:bl:~~ va lved. unearth, has made it possible to ca rryon the Saga for so many yea rs in this Ma gazi ne. Perhaps the first time tha t Greenspond is me ntioned by name is in Jo hn Oldmixon 2 VoL tre atise on "The Howeve r, it is amusing to me, and ought to be to British Empire in America" (First edition, 1708 Second all "Pond" people. and even those who are but slightly edition 174 1). Mr. Oldmixon says on the sett lement acquainted with the "Old Rock" to read in an Evening of Newfoundland, at the time he wrote, that: Paper of the capital city of the Provi nce in a column known as "Off Beat History" that Greenspond in other "The se settlements began at first at Cape St. Mary 's, on the Southern Shore, and the re after. days was " a remote place." wa rds were scattered along the coast at eig ht or I thought that I had presented evidence enough over Ten miles difference (aparl) from one Harbour to the yea rs since starting this Saga, bearing on the im another as far as Greenspond." portance of Greenspond in Bonavis ta Bay, and per haps in the whole north , to satisfy the most stubborn I might add that Greenspond then was pa rt of the French Shore which started at Cape Boneviste . So the and doubtful one. Lacking this certa inty , I have gone ahead and unearthed more pertinent data. This data sett lers were then squatters in one sense havi ng no real title to the land. shows that Greenspond was the " Hub" of the Bay As soon as the late r treaty of 1783 re mo ved the barr iers we read from D. W. Prowse, in his "Htstc rv of Newfoundland" that in 1804 six vessels we nt out to the seal fishe ry from Greenspond. A dec ade later (in TOLEDO SCALES 1813) that a "Commission of the Peace " was issued to Or. John Edg ar, a physician in Greenspond and the AND FOOD MACHINES po rt was the n spoken of as: "the mos t nort he rn port The Name ElU,.bod,. Knm'l'l for Justice of the Pe ace on the east coas t." Utile mo re tha n a decade later (l826) Greenspond AlSO began to assume some commercial impo rtance-com· --11III EI("(1.riC2f merce, as always, being the life blood of Gree nspo nd. Thus a Newfoundland Chu rch h isto ry (menti oned in !'oIn l Sa", . an ea rlie r art icle) speaks of the Rev. Corle tt visiting M eal Choppa. Greenspond and this missionary says : Sink ~I adl i nn "We landed this morn ing (Sunday, J uly 2 \· ~able Pttkn 1826 ) at Greens' Pond. I walked throu g h the Harbo ur to see what the people were doin g. The 'Heal Slittn merchants stores were all open ... In a word, Sun day was what may be e mphatically called Market Day in Greenspond." :\I OU U. 1051 In th is same yea r R. Montgomery Mart in in, "A His 24 and SO lbs. capacity tory of Nova Scotia , Newfoundland, etc ., 'lists' nine One c f many models available ve sse ls trad ing fore ign in Bonavista and Greenspo nd." Full I'"rticulan and prices ...hh IM"IIUfurnished upon r(' --; Martin (cited above) nsts in 1828 that there we re "Gre -nspcnd was a market town when much of the r ndred and twent y in Sunday School, one hun nor th \ 'as fuzzy down." . :;~h~ nd eighty-!>ix in Day School and seventy-five Rev. Moreton furthe r speaks of "the number of Adult!> going to !>Choo!. strange rs that come and go in foreign vessels", and It may have been [ust luck, but th i!> serne author say ," Here are two large brand houses of london and t s that the number of seals taken et Greenspcnd Poole merchants to wh ich the people of all parts of the ~~a f833 was over three, times th~1 taken, at Kin,9'!> neighbouring shore resort for supplies of every kind ." C e and scnevtste combined; and In 1834 It wes five He' ObSe]S the large direct fore ign trade and re f~!> as many. Compared with Twillingate it was marks on: he opportunity it gave him to mee t so t~ree times as man y in 1833 and four times es many many differe t people from all over the wo rld that in 1834. brought news not othe rwise obtainable." Perhap!>some !> ignificance can be placed on Lovell's On this point of a se e-ferinq population Sir Richard ~t:;~~~ ~t8 it ah~~ ' ~~~~e t;;~~ l ~f~~ i t ~ ~h :oO~ttr~a~~~~~:a'" Henry Bonnycastle observes:- There are seven corcn ers in Newfoundland: two in Conception Bay, one at "Great num be n of seals are sometimes washed St. John's and one at Greenspond, Twilling ate, Trinity , on the shore here (at Green!>pond) dur ing the Western Bay and Harbour Britain." Spring see! fishe ry ... it has serne statement I!> made in all three issues of thi!> ear ly Ghingste tions, the chie f places be ing Bcnevrste at its north ern, and Greenspo nd at it's north-eastern extrem- I i!y, at which there are on a smell islend (Green!> GIIOlJCIIY"S pond) some ve ry extensive mercantile establish men ts." LEMARCHANT ROAD, ST. JOHN 'S George Altan England in his "Vikings of the Ice" (Mr. DIAL 85433 p, O. BOX 448 England we nt out to the ice in the Terra Nova in the 1920's) lays some stress on the dependence on Greens pond in the 1840's; thus (members of the crew look ing back at othe r da ys remarb):- ~ "In 1845 Capt ain Abram Keen's uncle damaged a sealing vess el w hile launch ing here . He put FFOR VALVE'1 men on the pu mps and had to go to Greenspond I M PO R TER ~ to refit. In 1850 Sam Winsor had his sh ip d is VI mantled and they rigged jury canvas and put a Dry Good s, M.n's, Womltn'. & Children', cable out and four-oared boat s towed her to Wearing App arel, Footw. ar, Household Gree nspond. In four da ys had new masts in her Good s, Infan ts' W. ar, Notions, Etc. and left agai n the fourth day and was first in with a full load of seals." Rev. Julian Moreton (missionary in Greenspond 1850 · 59) obse rve s at this time that : (l,f)~>S ~t ll._Ct4 "Sunday was observed as a day for putt ing in order all the fi!> hing gear, The merchants' stores ~~~~~~;;;;;=--=iiiiiiii~~ii~~~ we re open till midda y and the fishermen took . . -- their salt and made the ir purchases ." Tll'O 'TORES I Commenting further he says;- "few places in tha t 216-220 Duckwo rth Street -Di. 1 83257 country are so prosperous a!> Gree nspond long 109·111 (Top) Long 's Hill - Di.1 84342 has been, ch iefly by reason of its pos ition." I so T il E :\ EWF O U1'\iIlLA:' Britain , on the South We'&' Coas t, is spelt differently lovell observes in all his Gazettees that Greenspond today. "has a good though small ha rbou r and is an excel lent f ishing station ." In 1864 Rev . Moreton, be ing then on a visit to lon don , gave a lecture before the Royal Geographical At this time , according to Mr. Lovell's Gazettees, the Society on "Some account of the Physical Geography population w as incre asing fast. Thus in 187 4 was of Newfoundland" in w hich he notes on Greenspond 1073 and in 188 1 it was 1286 . which he se rved as a Missionary from 1850-59 tha t "at the place of my abode, near the centre of the East Rev. Ja me s Lumsden wa s appointed to the Wesley. Coast ." ville mission, just about the end of the century. He, Rev. M oreton trave lled wi dely in Newfoundland coming to Gree nspond, sa id: and puts Greenspond as "cen tre of the East Coast ," His lectu re is report ed in the Jo urn al of the Royal Ge o " In the after noon we stea med into the har bour gra phical Society fo r 1864, Vol. 34, and he is there of Greenspond, a med ley of houses, stores and designated as a "Colonel Chapl ain." bus iness pre mises wit h two good ly sized churches at each end. The crowded ha rbo ur w ith its fish We mighf further note that Mr. J uke s (mentioned ing boats .. . bespeaks the calli ng of the peopl e above) was apparently su rp rised when he land ed in and an extensive trad e." Greenspond, and he ad ds: At all times in the nine tee nth cen tury, Greenspond "There are several good houses and large stores was the cen tral point for d irect ion of all lesser pleces. with a ve ry decent chu rch and with planters or fish Mr. Love ll has it se t out in his Gazette of 1874 , 1881 ermen's houses, nea t clea n and large r than us ual." and 1895 thus: Swai n's Island four miles from Green s pond, population 265. Ind ian Bay fifteen miles fro m John Francis Cam pbell in his; "A short Amer ican Gree nspo nd. Shoe Cove three miles from Greenspond, tramp in the Fall of 1864 ", visited Greenspond on Ju ly population 42 . Goo seberry Island s a group of islands 28th of that year. His observat ions are :- tw elve mile s from Gree nspo nd, papulation 339, Cat "The shops make fortunes. Got some tea at Harbour fiftee n miles from Greenspond population a neat little hou se w ith real cow 's milk, dried 193 . Fair Islands nine miles from Greenspond, pop ula caplin, fried ham and eggs." non 212 . Silver Hare Island , six miles from Gree ns. pond, populat ion 45 . Braggs Island , seven miles from Not every place in Newf oundland could supply that Greenspond, population 8 1; Deer Islands seven miles then . from Greensp ond , population 91. Sham bie r's Cove, one mile from Greenspond, population 66 . Newells Ceptetn Kennedy of the H.M.S. Druid on fishery pro Island half a mile from Greenspond, population 57. tection service called at Greenspond, July 3, 1880. His Of Ship Island lo vell says: "O ne of the Island s w hich Journal says :- form the harbour of Greenspond." Pools Island, two "The town, although presenting a most un miles from Greenspond, population 524, Pincha rds worthy appearance is a place of considerable im Island eight miles from Greenspond, population 3 16. po rtence .' Le I us come into th is cen tury and in the first decade. Codfish was then King in Greenspand; for this naval Here Greenspond is the " Post Town" for the fellow Captain observes "it is a pity that everything should be ing places: Cabot lslend , Bennett Island, Broa d Cove, sacrificed to the everlesting codfish." Cand le Cove, Cobblers Island, Clod Harbour, Drake Cove, Fox Bay, or Cove, Groats Island , Ind ian Bay, Lance Cove, Loon Cove , Newelts Island, Shamble rs Cove (Gamba in Winte r and Greenspond in Sum mer). PROFESSIONAL CARDS Th is was so because the overland mai l in win ter came by way of Gamba to Sham biers Cove, whe reas in Sum mer the Bay boat brought it direct to Greenspond. PARSONS & MORGAN 8,.rriste rs ,.nd Solicito rs LeT us continue on places in which Greenspond was R, A. PARSONS, Q.C., B.C.L, the "Post Town " nemely Ship Island, Shallop Cove, H. 8 , MORGAN, M.A. (OXFORD) Shoe Cove , Three lalend Harbour. Tinkers Island (both 329 DUCKWORTH ST. Phon e 8·2810 Greenspond end Pool's Islend( Warrens Island, Wing Isla nd . LEE ,.nd MARTIN As J . B. Jukes said in 1840:- "at day light we found ourselves a few miles from Greenspond ... and with Ch,.rtered Accou nt,.nts the g lass cou ld disce rn the hous e and the chu rch." 203 W,.te r " ;-';01 far alU )· we sa,,' t he port The str;lIljl;c old·f;uhionnl., but busy lawn, T h lijl;ht hou,"-', th... dismantled fort , f"h ",ootlcn housn quainl and brown, STIRLING, RYAN, GOO DRIDGE, CAULE, GUSHUE,.nd GOODRIDGE ""o.nder th e morn of 'Pon d you sawT Not,.ri" Wit h Curlew Rod , atop t he la nd. a.nisters, Solicitors, Gi,·injl; a broad \·u ion 10 it all; 283 Duckworth Sf, Phone 8·2059 St, John '. where "Iandt on it!. besom stand U k... oasis in a dese rt sand ." 'ru e ~ J::W FO U~I)LA~U Q UA RTERLY " BIBLIOGRAPHY Judge D. W. Prowse "Histo ry of Newfoundland" (london 1896). . Sir Richard Henry Bonnycasfle " Newfou ndl and in "Year Book and Almanac of Newfoundland. 1910" 1842" (london 1842). (J. W. Withers. St. John's). John F. Campbell, "A sho rt Ame rican Tramp in the Fall of 1864" (Edinburg h 1865) . SPECIAL NOTEI George Allan England , "Viking of the Ice" (New I migh t.add that I said in one of my articles that the re York 1924). J B. Jukes , M.A. (St. John's Colleg e, Oxfo rd), "Ex ~~~. ~1~vle~:l\~~~~S ~ r~~:~;~~~ ' re~~~~ ~~~~s~ r; ions in and about Ne wfoundland , du ring the years po nd. However. a ver y kind friend in Sf. John 's who ~~39 and 1840" (london 1842 ). also knows his Greenspond, w rites me (March 9th) :- Caplain Sir R. W. Ken~ed y (H;M.S. Druid), "Spo rt and " In the winte r edition of the Quarterly in travel in Newfou ndland (1880 s). your "Greenspond Saga " you state that "Gree ns John lovell & Son, "lovell's Gaze ttee r of British pond never saw a horse." This is not qu ite right; North America"- 1874, 188 1, 1895 (Montrea l). whe n I was a wee lad one of the Granter's, Jim Rev. James l umsden , "The Skippe r Parso n on the mie 1 think . brou ght in a ho rse and cart and used bays and barrens of Newfoundland " (New York 1905 ). to d rive ... up and down the village.. " It is simply wonderful the facts you have been able John M'Gregor. "British America " (Edinburgh 1833 ). to gather-keep it up ." Robe rt Montgomery Martin ."A History of Nova Thanks a thousand times for the correctionI let us Scotia, Newfoundland. et c." (london 1837). put and keep Greenspond on the map . l etter s from Rev. Julian Moreton, "Missionary Life in Newfound anyone are most welcome and necessa ry. land (london 1863). If the reade r will look bac k ove r the pas t Qua rter Rev. Julian More ton, "Some account of the Physical lies, he will see a picture of Ceptet n Daniel Bragg (who Geography of Newfo und land " an add ress be fore the married Mary Saunders) showing him in Sham bier's members of the Royal Geographical Socie ty. Reported Cove in retirement and g uiding his g randch ildren , I in the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, Vol. be lieve, along on a donk ey. This is rhe nearest I could 34 (1864). then gather on the above question. There were of Joh n Oldmixon "The British Empire in Amer ica" (lon cou rse always cows on Greenspond Island . don 174 1). (To be continued) THE ROYAL GARAGE LIMITED -DEALERS FOR- CHRYSLER - DODGE - VALIANT - SIMCA CARS DODGE TRUCKS THE BEST AUTOMOTIVE LINE FOR 1963 CARNELL STREET DIAL 82094 - 9S • 96 CAR LOT ON TOPSAIL ROAD PHONE 92196 TilE: ~E:WFOUNJ)LA~n Q UAR T EKL\' SQUID AT TEN DOLLARS EACH! New interest has been evoked in \ ntl when the arms asunder came the squid of the giant variety in New .-\IId stretched ou t all their length. 'If r grap nel look ed an a"'ful sight foundland because they appear to at For e\~I"J" claw was bern. rive in Newfoundland in cycles of ap proximately thirty yu rs and a new From tip to lip wc measured horn~ appearance o f them is due ill any tim e Those - Oh what a sili\ht! One hundred and fift,· feel - correct now. If 1 remember right." It was in 1953 that iI ballad by .-\nd th e ballad ended thu .•: Thomas Tulk formerly of Hmts The people said lher could not think Harbour ap peared in the QUJ:rttrly Or. at least believe their eves. about a giilnt squ id which fastened That a little 'lJuid could ~.., !II) bilt itself to a grapnel o f a fisherman and To 5tIch tremendoll5 size. was finally haul ed ashor e. The bal But after we had the earthquake The oquids got on the run, lad purports that the bod y was 8 ft. And I belie,'e to God with all my heart long with iI girth of 5 feet and the The~' were all turned into on e. longest arms measured 24 feet . While these- figures may have been tngger Xow the thirty yur cvcte is about ated (poetic because . perhaps) tht due and Dr. F. A. Aldridge. Marine squid without doubt was of giant biologist at Memorial Universiw Dr. Aldrich says : "I don't wa nt any records . . I han plenty of these ,,, proportions. ( wh ose department has embarked on a study of the giant squid which can What I want is the animal itself." Mr . Tuck said in his ballad: measu re up to 70 feet in length,) says the University will pay a nominal fee So. if you have a giant sq uid as "'I th~· a line, the-,' (lh~ fillh«men.) of ten dollars for information that a pet arou nd the house or sugt or string alonlt. will lead to the acquisition by the know wbere one can be fou nd. just To pull with no ""tmt. And whMl on shore- it ml"a'lUtro U niversity of the body of a gian t "telephone collect" to Prof. Aldrid gt j ust t",·~nty·tlC"\·"", fN't . squid. and he will do the rut, Thr chaltmgr to accompfishmmt ;5 the most important e1rrn<>nr in rducarion.-Albert Einstein. A good habit i5 jU5t as ra5Y to start as a bad onr--and How dear to our heart is the study subscriber. just as hard to brrak. Who pays in adva nce on the birth of each year, Who \;ays dow n the money and does it qu ite gladly, Grt knowledgr. but w ith all thy grtting get under An d casts ro und the office a halo o f chee r! stan ding,-Solomo n. He never says "Srop it ; I can not affo rd it . The way to he ft has alw ays bern accom panied by tip I'm gett ing mort magazines now tha n I read !" seroice to ideals,- A lbert Ei nstein. B ut al ways says. 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R("w Ran K"', (I; l" ':: ' i~ :,: : i',! , li:~ :;~~~:;;:~~ .p, ~'~~;::~: ~Il'll,,, .. EXh,Iltling"ill il ~ l"fl l' S \I'; I~. On is t" rad,' "'Il h ", 1"rI '"dllull ', I)" 1 O f wings ft-"In lhis ,lar k ...,.", . "f ,Irif., Sir ..--- I I .. h,,· ~" ltr l1Ial:a 1i" ,' am I L1" "0' IlRI .\ f. 1'Ii CO L I) W AR ! 11I(; T URU: \\' h" n 1l" 1'" u plifh . ".. lh'. It,.. ", illlt: Ii k "''' '' I 10 IlIi" il l hauk \'011 U ; R lT 0 ... 'li l 'U.L\ R T E'iT 11\ :>;. I" Ih,' I; maj .. r h n ·al.lhrouJo:h in t·o3, l . \\' h,· ,IIt .u!,1 ""'''''''' I'"lf",,1i A SLADE MONOGRAM-(Continued from page 9) Vida Newhook) now owns them . Perhaps a Slade store with the history and traditions of Elliston and, to Some survives, but the house was taken dow n about 1954. extent, w ith those of Catalina. The name and the finn The Sheraton per iod spoonbox in the Newfo undland of Slade at Catal ina were very famil iar to the older Museum came from this house, and might ha ve been fo lk at Elliston during my boyhood, because until 1853. part of the Slade furn ishings. 60 , by which ~ime the su,?ply ing fir':l of Robe rt Tilly became established at Elliston, practically all Elliston people purchased their food and other supplies from 8. Hea rt's Content and sold thei r fish to, Slade at Catalina. No freight: Both the 1838 and the 1850 Business Not ices in the carrying road existed out of Elliston until about 1858 press show that there was then a Slade establishment and carriage was all by sea to and from Cata lina. A here . William White 's art icle in the QUARTERLY for Slade shop is shown on an Elliston land d iagram ab out September 1956 says :"Slade & Kelson bought out a 1825 , which building, success ively owned by Slade, small business from Mr. Burr idge, who d id bus iness Bremner and a Hobbs fish ing family , was demolished (at Trinity) just to the S. West of Slade's . Captain Bur about 1940 . The Slade firm at Catalina no dou bt ridge 's business closed in 1816." kept a shop in it for years , but perhaps only in Sum mertime. Item 3 of this collection is an 1815-16 Ledger , en titled on the outs ide "Hearts Content" and showing in The several similar iron Hrebe cks surviving at Ellis side tha t it is for "the estate of the late Joseph Bur ton from houses built around 1B30 were obvi ously rage, " and the dealers' name in it are of the Heart's imported thro ugh the Catalina Slade branch, and the Content area and not of Trinity . initials R.S. on them are undoubtedly for Robert Slade; one of these firebecks is now at the Newfoundland Whether the fact is that Burrage had a branch at Museum, donated about 1959 by Mr. Wilson Trask, Heart's Content, whether th is branch, together with descendants of its first owner, Mark Chard, fishe rman his Trinity headquarters, was bought out by Slade, and teacher. and whether this, if so, was the only Slade establish ment at Heart' s Content, and who now owns the pre Two of my ancestors at Elliston, Thomas Cole and mises there, are unknown to me . John Gough, mention in their wills , of 1833 and 1858, I dism iss as very unlikel y, for those days of sail, the mon ies of the irs "now in the hands of Robert Slade, possibility that Burrage supplied a number of dealers merchant." at Heart's Content direct from his Trinity establishment, with this ledge r containing their accounts. 10. Some bus iness notices, taken from the New Richard Ash was the agent at Heart's Content for foundland ROYALGAZETIE:- Slade and Kelson in 1840-41. Nort hern Sbdes 9. Elliston 27 May 1862 . The partnership between Thomas This place , formerly Bird Island Cove , was my boy Slade and Thomas Cox, in bus iness in 'Poole and New hood home from 1905 to 1919 . It was permanently fo undland, as general Newfoundland merchants and settled by the first ancestors the re of its present people shipbuilders, under the style of William Cox & Co., is abo ut 1808-20. Nearby Catalina was my home for six this day dissolved; the business w ill be carried on by ye ars in early manhood, 19 19-25 . I am very fam iliar the said Thomas Cox alone . "MARK EVERY PLOT" SEE US FOR YOUR NITH CROCKERY and GLASSWARE (jii-ouP;{ MARBLE cO Ultl~.rr REQUIREMENTS THE SACRED £..nera//oltS' MEMORY CUPS and SAUCERS - TEA SETS STONE DINNER SETS I Carved a n d Lett er ed WATER SETS - BERRY SETS e==;:~. by I S. O . STEELE & SONS Skinner's Monumental Works LIM I TE D THE ~f ASTER CRAFTS~IEN Write for PhOl~ . State requerements DIAL 8-6392 WATER STREET EAST P. O. "OX 1371 ST . JOHS 'S, ;'\iFLH. TI l E :"\EWFOU1'IriUl .,\1'\riU Q U,\RTF.RL\ Carbonea r Siad el existing business dynasties" in ou r Newfoundland his tory which is comprised of Hold swort h, Harvey, Job , 1 anuary, 1839. Robert S~ade, Senior, Mark Sea- Newman, Bowring and the fami lies of the Baine , Jo hn Robert Major and Rclles Biddle, late of Cerbcneer, ston firm. Slades seem to have had the largest sp read ger:c,an1s, co-partne rs, were on 30th April last declared ~~olvent , of any bus iness dynt!lsty in Newfoundland, l.e., the and William Rendell , of St. John's, and James most branches. And , not even excepting the le ster Slade, of Trinity, me rchant, a~e now appolnt~d tru~tees . Garland firm of Trinity, the Slade firms , at thei r peak This is followed by a sale notice of the prermses, s,~ned around 1800-1820, we re probably conducting the by J. W , Martin, agent to the trustees of Slade, Biddie largest 'vattie and quantity in annual turnover of any & Co. Newfoundlancf\ outport establishment. Trinity Bay Siade l The two names of John Hayte r Slade, died 178 3, and Robert Standley Slade, died 184 6, ap pear on an 9 Ja nuary, 1838. The par tnership et Trinity, Cere iron headstone at Fog o. There is no known descendant lint!l Hearts Content and Hants Harbour, under the style of any of this business dynasty of Siades in New of Slade and Kelson, is this day dissolved , and the focndland today (the Placentia Bay and Conception business at eac h place will be continued under the Bay present Slades do not belong to it), and I have firm of the "Executors of the late Robert Slade." neve r seen a Slad e birth in chu rch registers. The y ve ry probably spent only the summers here, thei r est ab 19 Mt!lrch 1850. The trade at Trinity, Cete line. lishme nts be ing managed ove rwinte r by ag e nts. The re He t!l rts Conten t and Hents Harbo ur , und er the firm of are, of cou rse, many know n descendants in Ne wfound the Executors of the late Ro bert Slade, Se n., w ill, on land of these ag ents an d of othe r Slade em ployees. the 1st March 1850, be dissolved, and the busi ness et each place will be carried on under the firm of While on a visil to Poo le about 1926, Mr. Tho mas W. Collingwood was introduced by his uncle, at a club, Robert Slade & Co. to an 88-year-old Mr. Slade, the last su rvivo r of the 20 Aug . 186 1. Robert Slade & Co., carrying on family to have engaged in the Newfoundland trade business in Trinity, Catalina and Hants Harbour, were sonless, but with four or five daughters whom he pre declare d insolve nt on 4th May last, Alexander Brem vented from marrying so es to " kee p the money in the ner, at Catalina. be ing the trustee, to whom , or to the fa mily." Whether he had been in Newfoundland, and manag ing age nts at the other places, debts were to be w ith what part of the coast his branch of the fam ily paid. Then follow s a sale not ice of premises, vessels. had been connected, are unknown. stock. fishing room s, etc. ---- 12. The Slade records now (r.e ., in May 1963 ) at Note . The 1862 Slade inso lve ncy case in the New the Newfoundland Arch ives constitute the most com found land l aw Reports states, concerning the Trinity prehensive documentation the re of any Newfoundland Bay firm. that Robert Slade , Senior . had d ied in 1833 , bus iness firm or dynasty-probably the most compre thet the sole owners thereafter had been his sons , hensive now su rviv ing anywhere from any period of Robe rt, Junior, and James, and tht!lt William Kelson, our history down to 1850 . They include: althoug h his na me had for some yea rs been included in the firm's name , had been its agent but not a partner. Of the Northe m Siad es (al Thirtee n account books, of Fogo an d Battle Har 11. Up to 1862, whe n the last Slade firm dis solved, bour, d ating from 1784 10 1862 (and includ ing Siades were amo ng tha t g roup of "oldest continuously leter secti o ns belonging to Slade successors). DRINK AND ENJOY It Lor Quick Starts. ..L00 1; Ie RA INBOW TEA GEORGE NEAL, Ltd. ST. JOHN'S Willard...... -.....- T. A. Mac NAB & CO., LTD. DISTRIBUTORS (b) Two ma nuscr ipt lette rboo ks of William CO" & Swee tla nd' s han d w riting, from comparison with Co., Fogo and Twillingate, 1858-59 and 1865-67. a number of land diagrams and other know n wr itings of his that I have recently seen at (c) 145 account books , and 120 other items of cor Elliston. respondence, etc., of Fogo, Greenspond an d Battle Harbour, rang ing over the per iod fro m 1785 to 1883 (including sections belonging to 14. Re Benjamin Sweetland, born at Ferryland and Slade successors ), donated to the Archives in magist rate at Trinity; Item 15, Voter s list , is mostly in 1962 by Messrs. Earle, Sons and Co., Ltd., of his handwriting , 1835 -38 . Fogo. Re William Sweetland, his brother and contempor_ a ry magis trate at Bonevis te. see the foregoing photo , stat of his handwriting. Of the Trinity Bay Siad es (d) Two lerterbecks. 1809 -10 and 18 18-2 1, and a Compariso n of the se exemples with some of the list of dealers at Cata lina, 1825. Slade reco rds in this collection may show an iden tity, the reby suggesting that one or both of the brothers had (e) Most of the account book s and other records, first worked with that firm at Trinity; if so, it mig ht 1805 -47, belonging to this William White col acco unt for the ir com ing to that northern area of the lection of 16 items . Island from their nat ive Ferryland. 13. Re the Trinity Bay Sledes. for some historical 15. This Memorandum comprises the material facts data, and spec imens of handwritings, see the follow of the Slade general history in Newfoundland that are ing papers appended in a separate folder: known to the writer. Few as they a re, they pe rhaps 9 J une 1961 . Manuscript memo of copies of form the most co mpre he nsive assemblage possi ble to specimen signatures, Kelson and Bremner. day . (To be con tinued next issue) 21 J une 196 1. 7 photostats of pages fro m the Private Memo Book of William Kelson , Senior, 1822-27 . r yped letter from N. C. Crewe to Miss M. NEW AND REVISED EDITION Mews, re tha t book . OF 22 June 196 1. Photos tat of 6-page memo by Rev. Edmund Hunt on William Kelson , Senio r. " NEWFOUNDLAND, AS IT WAS, 27 June 1961 . Photostats of a title-page and one AND AS IT IS NOW" page of text from the unpublished manuscript vo lumes of "The Annals of Newfoundland," by by Magistate William Sweetland, of Bonavista, which are in his handwritng . These three vol DR. ROBERT SAUNDERS , J .D.(Dr. Juris) umes are mentioned on page 252 of Howley's "Beothuks" and are now privately owned in St. Jo hn's, I know the entire text to be in Featuring espec ially th e po ems of the late Solomon Samson, Esq . The new edition contains an extensive New fo und land bibliography, and an enlarged glos s All the Best Music ary. 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