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NEWFOUNDLAND SAVINGS BANK CLOSED MARCH THIRTY-FIRST
OPENED JUNE 12th, 1834
HE ~ewfoundland Savings Bank is no Bank of ::"\cw Brunswick, which was benefited itself as well in a deal which Tmore. It is now a branch of t!he great started ixteen years before ours, was financier and banking ex.perts agree is a Bank of Montreal, one of Canada's rock absorbed by the Bank of O\'a Scotia good one all round. The mallwood gov sound financial in titutions. The won in 1913; the Bank of British Co ernment, in a realistic and generous ges der of it, now that we have been given lumbia amalgamated witih the Canadian ture, has arranged to pay almost three a close look into its nature and a.ctivitie , (Imperial) Bank of om m e r c e in quarter of a million dollars of the pur that it did not disappear long ago. It 1901. There are many other instances, cha e price to the depo itors of the form should have passed out of the picture as can be judged from the fact that in er Savings Bank over a three-year period after Confederation, since the B.. . . Act, the 1800's there were about forty banking to make up for the slight difference be which is Canada' con titution, gives the institutions in Canada, while by the mid- tween it intere t rate and that of the Federal Government exclusive legislative 1930's t>here were only nine. The passing chartered banks. By the time the three authority over currency and coinage, of the ewfoundland avings Bank, year are up the Premier predicts that all bank , incorporation of banks, the i ue therefore, is part of a long-established the banks will be paying three per cent! of paper money, and savings banks. and accepted pattern. 'Ve say "Amen" to that.
The latter class of institution is specif Actually, the local bank was unique Furthermore, in a move tJhat must earn ically listed. The fact that the province in a sense, in that it was purely a savings un:\'ersal approbation, the government was permitted to carry on the local in bank and nothing else-a sort of super has earmarked a million dollars as a "spe stitution so long was more a concession "thrift club" as it has been de cribed. It cial endowment" directed towards a hos to Newfoundland sensitivity and stub did not take part in any of the normal pital for ick and crippled children, and bornness, than to any notion that the banking transaction , did not make loans, help for retarded youngsters. We trust institution was indispensable to the prov and contributed little to the development that the balance that is going into the ince's economy. of the provincial economy. All it did was Con. olidated Revenue Fund will be as collect money from depositor and invest wisely and beneficially used. A cleaJ;"-Cut However, as things have worked out, the money in "gilt-edged" securities that explanation of the transaction involving the delay has been for the best. 'Ve un would enable them to keep paying a high the avings Bank is to be sent to all de derstand the government's decision to sell er rate of interest than wealthier com positors, who can rest assured that their the bank as a going concern to the high petitors so a to attract more depositors. interests have been adequately, even gen est bidder, came most opportunely at a erously, protected. time when the market was very favorable. All of this im olved a maximum of The "big five" in chartered Canadian effort for a minimum of return. Further 'Ve have only one more remark to add, banking circles were all given the oppor more, it represented a huge and con tant and this affects the historic aspect of the tunity to bid, after having been put in burden on the provincial government's tran action. We have not quite forgiven full pos ession of a comprehensive finan back, since they had to stand behind the the Bank of Montreal for removing the cial report on the aving's Bank' posi deposits. As these increased they became old Gazette building on Water Street to tion. The Bank of Montreal was uc a tremendous liability and responsibility. make wa for their new glass and chrome cessful with a nearly three million dollar At the date of sale they stood at twenty headquarters. We sincerely trust that offer. seven million dollars, every cent of which they resist any temptation or suggestion the province had to guarantee. It is not to replace the attractive old Savings Bank It is ad to see another old institution difficult to understand how the removal building which is one of a rapidly declin go. But in banking circles this sort of of this responsibility ha improved the ing number of commercial structures in credit of the province. bhe capital with any pretense towards thing has been going on in Canada since architectural individuality. 1867. Canadians in the other provinces The Bank of Montreal has lifted this are quite used to it. For example, the burden from the government's back and -Evening Telegram. 4 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
NEWFOUNDLAND SAVINGS BANK
A NEWFOUNDLAND
F one may be pennitted to apply an ecclesiastical tenn to such a mundane thing a I a bank, then this may well be called a Newfoundland "Peculiar." he is unique. Though most of her life, her policy has been not so much to make money, as to provide security; not so much to acquire huge deposits as to win many depositors. In the word of Sir Thomas Cochrane, she was a place where "the inhabitants of this Island could deposit with confidence and withdraw at pleasure."
She is unique in that, in her early days, being the only Bank in Newfoundland, Bishops and Clergy, Judges and Magistrates, Prime Ministers and Members of Parlia ment were her advertisers. As one of them pointed out to the people: "The avings Bank offers you an inducement to lay up for the support of your families, in the day of adversity." He spoke with more tru~h than he knew.
The ewfoundland Savings Bank came into being on the 12th. day of June 1834 and thus became the first bank in ewfoundland. It is true that the Bank of British North America came here in December 1836 and continued until 1857 but it is also true that as far as the people were concerned, the r ewfoundland Savings Bank was the only bank here between 1834 and 1854 when the Union Bank was founded. The Policy of ~he Bank of British North America was much too conservative, much too stringent for tJhe people who ignored it completely. R. F. SPARKES
With almost complete autonomy and tax exemption, this J ewfoundland Peculiar, Manager the Savings Bank, like Minerva, fully anmed at birth, almost at once found herself Nfld. Savings Bank with more money than she knew what to do with. The first manager, the Hon. ewman Hoyles time and aga•in had to advertise money to lend. He was so successful
that the Bank prospered greatly and thus not yet been invented. This was forty and their families and make provisic;m earned still more money. For ~hree years years before the invention of the tele for the season of distress a nd old age." in sucession, in order to divide profits phone, and Marconi was just in his cradle How secure and stable she was! In not paid out by the regular interest when the Bank was a sturdy giant. rates, he had to pay an extra I% bonus 1855 Sir Ambrose Shea said that "After in order to get rid of it. This in its It was impossible to keep money out. the cabastrophies of the last ten yean turn defeated its purpose, because it at By 1893, and there were two other banks it was expected by persons of judgement tracted more deposits. The Government in competition with it then, the amount and experience that t:he Bank would have been fortunate had she lost so then forbade any account to have more on deposit was equa! to more than 15.00 much as flO,OOO. The fact is," he said, than £50 in it. The depositors soon found for every man, woman and child in New "the Saving Bank ·has lost but £1012 a way around that obstacle. They simply foundland. opened two or three accounts at £50 each. and has a sum of profit left amounting And what a good thing it was! The to nearly £120001" If this sounds a bit strange, it must two commercial catastrophies of 1846, the But there were storms of another sort be remembered that in llhose days of one by fire, the other by hurricane, ahead. "Black Monday" lOth. Dec. 189!1. more than a century ago, the channels brought with them degrees loss as well when the Union Bank crashed and of investment in Newfoundland were fe\v as complete ruin. How much greater brought down the Commercial Bank with and restricted. You couldn't buy Trea the loss would -have been without the it, created a run on the Savings Bank. sury Bills on the Dominion of Canada, for Savings Bank is recognized by the Hon. And yet in spite of alarm, fear and even the simple reason that there was no Mr. Robinson when he said, "Had it not panic, so strong was public confidence such thing in existence. There were been for the security thus afforded many in the Savings Bank that only slightly no Trust Companies, no Provincial Bonds would now be penniless." Later he said, over 20,000 was withdrawn, and then and no Municipalities. "I trust people in every part of the Island over a period of three weeks. In those days you couldn't do business will avail themselves of its (the Bank's) 1895 was a terrible year. . But the tiJJle by cable or wire, for the telegraph had assistance towards security for themselves has always produced the man. Sir Robert THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 5
NEWFOUNDLAND SAVINGS BANK (Continued)
Bond came to the rescue and by pledging his personal fortune, secured the loan then so urgently needed and the avings Bank was saved. Fe"' people realize that had the Savings sank closed her doors in 1895, Newfound land would have reverted to a crown colony and her history changed. The Bank of British North America has been mentioned. The present build ing wa · erected by them, about 113 years ago. It is the arne building that was used by the old Commercial Bank who bought it when the Bank of British North America left Newfoundland in 1858. The Commercial Bank rebuilt it after it was gutted by the fire of 1892. Two fan windows still bear the Commer cial Bank Monogram. After the crash of rhe Commercial, the Bank of Montreal bought the building and land and later
011 , sold the whole to the Newfoundland a,·ings Bank. What names are associated with tJhe ewfoundland Savings Bank, Hoyles, Morris and Shea among its managers of whom there were twel.ve in 128 years. Among its director , Little, Carter, White way, Bond, "\Vinter, to name only a few }nonymous with history in ewfound· land. There is probably no bank in the world with so many names of Prime Min i ters and Judges on the roll of its dir ectors.
It is a far cry from the candle light of 1834 to the world blinding flash of the H-Bomb. The Newfoundland Savirtgs Bank has seen many things and in her small way haped many things in her 128 years. he has seen many changes and will change herself but she can never disappear for she is more than a land· mark in ewfoundland history. he is a part of ewfoundland History.
Perhap neither the need nor the in centive, to lay by something against the day of adversi·ty is so strong today as it was; but the principles of which the ~cwfound land avings Bank is an exem plification ne\er change. -R.F .
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The Capture of the ''Detroit" on Lake Erie UCH contests, though wholly laudable from the naval The quotation of the eminent Mahan are take n from S standpoint ... were indecisive of general results, Tupper's "Life and Times of Major-General Sir Isaac however meritorious in particular execution. They Brock" which are given in Brigadier Cruikshanks " Do had no effort upon the issue, except in so far as they cumentary History of War on the Niagara" and which inspired moral enthusiasm and confidence." reads:- Capt. A. T. Mahan, "The unfortunate disaster which has befallen the "The War of 1812". Detroit and Caledonia will reduce us to great dis But Captain Mahan, one of the most distinguished tress .. . As I send you the flank companies of the naval writers of half-a-century ago, was also cautious Newfoundland Regiment, no part of the provisions by adding the gist of a dispatch from Major-General can go this trip in the Lady Prevost ... You will Sir Isaac Brock to Col. Proctor which says:- husband your prog, for I am sorry to say there is but little in the country." "A quantity of provisions was ready to be ship ped; but as I am sending you the flank companies (Brock to Col. Proctor, undated, probably Oct. of the Newfoundland Regiment by the Lady Pro 11-12, 1812. Brigadier Cruikshank, Part 4). vost, she cannot take the provisions." The disaster General Brock spoke of was the loss of Then Mahan adds himself to it, that: "Trivial details the Detroit and Calendonia in the early morning of these may seem; but in war, as in other matters, October 9, 1812. They were armed brigs on the Great triviliaties sometimes decide great issues." Lakes. The Detroit, of 200 tons burden, was ori ginally THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 9
the Adams of the U.S. Navy; but taken by the British at "Buffalo to Fort Erie was about two miles; but the capture of Fort Detroit and renamed "Detroit." this distance was 1')1aterially increased by the strong downward current . . . and by the necessity of pull Now Captain Elliot>t, of the Quarter-Master-General's ing far up-stream in order to approach the vessels Depa rtment, U.S. Navy, was fitting out some war ves from ahead, which lessened the chance of prema sels at a place called "Squaw Island." On the 8th of ture discovery and materially shortened the inter october, 1812, the British warships Detroit and Ca val between being seen and getting alongside. ledonia arrived from Malden and anchored at Fort Erie nea rby. Elliott put off from the mouth of Buffalo Creek in two large boats, with fifty men in each at one o'clock Ca ptain Elliott conceived the idea of capturing them. on the morning of the 9th of October (Lucas "The Can He wrote "A strong inducment was that with these two adian War of 1812"). vessels, and those I have purchased, I shall be able to meet the remainder of the British force on the His report to the Secretary of the Navy from Black Upper Lakes." (cited by Mahan). But Mahan remarks: Rock the morning after the encounter reads in part:- "The mishap of the Detroit partly disappointed these expectations, and the British aggregate remained still "On the 8th instant two British vessels ... the Detroit, late the U.S. brig Adams, and the brig superior." Hunter, mounting fourteen guns, but afterwards At this point Maier-General Hall of the U. S. Armv. proved to be the Caledonia, both said to be well was advised by Gen. Renssalaer that: armed and manned ... anchored under the protec tion of Lake Erie . . . "You will please furnish Elliott immediately with men, arms, ammunition, boats and implements of "A strong inducement to this attempt arose from every kind to the uttermost of his wishes and the a conviction that with these two vessels added to means you can possible command to render the these which I have purchased, and am fitting out, enterprise successful" (Cruikshank). I should be able to meet the remainder of the Brit ish force on the Upper Lakes." Elliott, of course, knew that these two British vessels were loaded with valuable cargo. The Detroit had "I had my men selected and stationed in two can non in her hold, a large quantity of shot and two boats ... with these boats, fifty men in each, 1 put hundred muskets intended for Kingston and Prescott. off from the mouth of Buffalo Creek . . . and at (Brock to Governor Prevost, cited in Cruikshank). three o'clock I was alonqside the vessels . . . In about ten minutes I had the prisoners all secured." The Caledonia had nearly six hundred packs ot deerski ns belonging to a fur company- the Mechanic " Unfortunately the wind was not sufficiently Com pany- and both of them encumbered with prison strong to get me up against a rapid current into _the ers and very few men to defend them. (Quebec Mer lake .. . I was obliged to run down the nver cury, Oct. 27, 1812, cited in Cruikshank). All this was by the forts under a heavy fire and was compelled we ll kn own by the U. S. Commodore, Isaac Chauncey, to anchor at 400 yards from two of their batteries. at Sacketts Harbour; for he writes the Secretary of the ... 1 hailed the shore and observed to the officer Navy: "the Detroit was manned and armed as a Man that if another gun was fired I would bring the of War." (Cruikshank, citing Vol. 2 of the Historical prisoners on deck and expose them to the same fate Register). we should all share ... they disregarded the cau The Detroit was commanded by Lieut. Frederick tion . . . " Rolette, a man who had seen considerable war ser "They continued a constant and destructive fire. vice, be ing present at the Battle of the Nile, where he The Caledonia was beached under one of the bat rece ived five wounds, and also at Trafalgar. Praised teries at Black Rock. 1 now brought all the guns of by General Brock in the highest terms, he wrote Gov the Detroit on one side next the enemy .. . The ernor Prevost: "Rolette, who commanded the Detroit, pilot had abandoned me .. . I was brought up on had, and I believe deservedly, the character of a brave, our shore on Squaw Island." attentive officer." (Cruikshank). "During the whole of the morning both sides of The second in command on the Detroit was Ensign the river kept up ... a constant fire on the brig . : . Thomas Kerr of the Newfoundland Fencibles, as they It was impossible to have floated her ... her sa1ls are called by the Court of Inquiry. The Buffalo Gazette in ribbons and her rigging all cut to pieces . . ." says: "Commandant Thomas Kerr, Ensign of Marines" "The prisoners I have turned over to the military (Cr uikshank, Part 4), "At the Court of Inquiry held . . . The Detroit had a commanding Lieutenant, a later w e read of Wi1liam Woodands, Sergeant of the Lieutenant of Marines, a boatswain, a gunner, and Royal Newfoundland Fencibles, and other witnesses six men, about thirty American prisoners on board fro m the Newfoundland Regiment." . . . The Caledonia mounting two small guns, Let us now look at the enemy getting ready to take blunderbusses, etc., etc .... laden with furs worth, both ships by a sudden and secret attack. Commodore I understand $200,000.00. Cha uncey writing from Sacketts Harbour on October 16 says: "Lieut. Elliott cut out from under the guns of (From the Historic Register, the U.S., Vol. ll, Fort Eri e, the Brig Adams (lately surrendered at De Washington 1814, cited by Cruikshank). troit) a nd the Caledonia laden with peltry said to be Elliot was apparently one-sided in showing himself very valuable." (Ibid. Part 2). · Captain Mahan sum as the main actor; for years afterwards General Nathan ma rises thus: (Continued on Page 1 0) 10 THE NEWFOUNDLA D QUARTERLY
WHEN NFLD. HELPED SAVE CANADA (Continued)
Towson wrote him from Washington in 1843 which TOLEDO SCALES apears to offset Elliot's optimistic views thus: "You had no return of my command, which con. AND FOOD MACHINES sisted of twenty-mile artillerists ... There was no The Name E\·erybody Knows selection of place in beaching the Caledonia. She grounded in the Niagara River opposite two of the enemy's batteries which kept up a fire on her . . ." ALSO "The Caledonia made a gallant and desperate Electrical resistance and it was not until we had two men kill Meat Saws ed and thirteen wounded (2 mortally) that she was captured, while the Detroit permitted you to get Meat Choppers alongside before you were discovered and to board Steak Machines her almost without resistance." Vegetable Peelers (From correspondence in relation to the capture of the British brigs (Phila. 1843) cited in part Meat Slicers two of Cruikshanks Documentary History). This well illustrates how enthusiasm at the moment can colour a report from the main actors. Twenty-four hours afterwards the enemy's side of the story is more accurately told by Major-General Hall to General MODEL 1051 Rensselaer from Buffalo, Oct. lOth, thus: 24 and 30 lbs. capacity One of many models available "The Adams (Detroit) grounded on the west side of Squaw Island and the other directly opposite Full particulars and prices with terms furnished upon Swift's Barracks. Our one and great misfortune was request (or all models of scales and Food Machines. from a canon ball fired from the enemy which struck Our Service Depa1·tment is fully equipped to give fast, competent service on all machines. Major Cuyler ... He fell dead from his horse in stantly . .." FRED. V. CHESMAN lTD. "The Adams (Detroit) changed owners three times REPRESENTATIVES in the course of the day. The Caledonia was loaded P. 0. Box 695 178 Water St. Telephone 82536 principally with pork. The 24 and 18 pounders pre vented our men working. Prisoners, the whole will exceed forty; two capt~ins were taken ... I find that our brave militia do not like cannon ball much." (Cruikshank, Part 2.) Take advantage of In the Quebec Mercury (republished by Lieut.-Col. Cruikshank) of October 27th, 1812, there is corres our Morning Specials pondence from a man at Fort George to his friend in Quebec, under dates October ll th and 18th, that:- "On the 9th a most unfortunate event took place A $15.00 COLD WAVE FOR $10.00 at Fort Erie. The Detroit (formerly the Adams) and A $10.00 PERMANENT FOR $ 8.00 Caledonia ... with near 600 packs of deerskins be longing to the Mackinac Company, arrived the previ At either of these Locations: ous evening, having few men on board and en cumbered with prisoners, were attacked the follow ing morning by a number of boats containing about AMERICAN BEAUTY PARLOUR two hundred of the enemy, who succeeded in cut ting the cables of both vessels. 167 New Gower St. 364 Water St. "The contest now became warm, and the vessels Dial 86852 Dial 82905 drifted toward the American Shore, and in a short time the Caledonia grounded .. . The fire was now animated betwixt the troops on the opposite shores. DeLUXE BEAUTY PARLOUR A party of ours succeeded in boarding the Detroit and dismantled her under a shower of balls; the 150 Duckworth St. crew of the vessel had been obliged to abandon her and give themselves prisoners of war. She was DIAL 85849 blown up in the evening." . (Cited in Lieut.-Col. Cruikshank, as from the f1le OR CALL - in the Library of Parliament, Ottawa). The two vessels had previously, through drifting, been placed in a very exposed position, so that t~e British later were able to again board the Detroit. Commodore Chauncey from Sacketts Harbour to the DIAL 85659 Secty of the Navy in Washington under date October 16th says: In running these vessels for Black Rock (Continued on Page 35) THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 11
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:-\ the 30th day of April A.D. 1873, as the steamer Tigress, as the boat's heads were 111 rned one way or another to obtain of St. John's, Newfoundland, was steaming some forty an entrance, dense columns of people of all classes moved up 0miles off the coast of Labrador on a sealing expedition, she and down the quay lining the harbour, according a the course w:t'i hailed. about five o 'clock in the morning, by an Esqui seemed to be directed to one point or another. mau. who paddled alongside in his kayak and called the .\t the landing an impetuous ru ·h was made to obtain a attention o f her crew to a group of miserable looking men, \·iew of the novel strangers. The Esquimaux ·children were ,,·om en. and ohilclren, who were adrift on an ice floe, near carried through the streets on the boulders of some of the ,,hich. in a den'iC fog, the steamer had providentially come. prominent CJtlzem, and the whole party was escorted to T he T igres immediately headed for the castaways, her homes which had been previously provided for them by the crew gi\ ing and receiving hearty cheers as they drew near. l .' . . Consul, who had been in tructed by the Hon. George rwo boats were immediately sent oiif, and the whole party were M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, to advance money and every requisite assistance to the long suffering mariners. ,0011 on board the steamer, where Capt. Bartlett and his crew of one h undred and twenty Newfoundland fishermen treated The rescued party consisted of the following persons: them with much hospitality and kindness. George E. Ty on, assistant navigator; Frederick Meyer, Mete· orologist; J. W . C. Kruger, G. W. Linquist, Frederiok Auntiny, T he rescued party numbered nineteen persons, ten white Peter Johnson, Frederick Jamka, and '\Villiam Linderman, sea rnen and nine Esquimaux. Briefly, their story was a fearful man; John Herron, steward; ·william Jackson, cook; and nhe fol and thrilling one. They were a portion of the officers and lowing Esquimaux; Joe, his wife, Hannah and his adopted crew of the Arctic steamer Polaris, and the Esquimaux con daughter Punna; Hans Christian, his wife and his children Au nected with the Expedition. They were separated from their gustina, Tobias, Lucci, and a baby which was born on board steamer on the night of Oct. 15th, during a snow storm and a the Polaris only two months before the company parted from hca\'y gale wihich had suddenly driven the vessel o£f from that ve sel. This child was bapti ed during the stay of its par the ice. " ot being able to regain the ship or to reach the ents at St. John' . land, they had remained on the floe for one hundred and 'With the exception of Hans and his interesting family, all ninet y-six days, during which time, exposed to hunger, and of these persons were members of the expedition from its start. the winds, waves, and frozen concubions of an Arctic winter, Hans, •his wife, and three children, joined it at Upernavik. they had drifted southerly ome fifteen hundred miles. Capt. This is the same Hans who accompanied Dr. Kane on his Hall died o n board the Polaris on the Suh day of November. second expedition, during the trying vicissitudes of which he IRil , and was buried in a frozen grave. Of the fate of the acted well his part. He subsequently went with Dr. Haye's ship and the balance of the crew they know nothing. expedition, and has figured in Sunday School literature as tlhe As the Tigress had not secured a full complement of seals devout Moravian. When Dr. Kane's party last saw Hans he she continued northward for several days, encountering heavy was driving south wi!lh hang-hu's pretty daughter lby his side, drifting ice, but meeting with poor success in catching seals. and it is presumed that she is the present Mrs. Hans. On the 7th of May she wa headed sout'h, and arrived at Bay The news of the death of Capt. Hall cau eel iOrrow Robe rts, a fishing port near St. John's, on the 9th of May. throughout the country; while the meagre story of the drift H ere the Tigress remained till the 12th of May. The on t•he ice excited deep and absorbing interest, mingled with party went ashore, and were very kindly received ·by ·the in doubts as to its truth. It was claimed that such experiences habitants. They were also visited by many gentlemen from were unparalleled and high! inprobable; and reasoning from St. John's, including the ubiquitous correspondent of the New the strange separation {rom the hip, the reticence of Capt. York Herald, and througlh his enterprise the sad news of the Tyson, the di cord among the officers at Disco, and the sus death of Capt. Hall appeared in that paper of May lOth. The picious circumstances attending the death of Capt. Hall, the news of the disaster to the Arctic Expedition reached St. John's public began to believe that there had been foul play somewhere. on the 9t h of May. and the U .S. Consul immediately telegraP'h Not a few accepted the theory tha ~ Hall had been poisoned by cd to ·washington, D.C., an official announcement thereof. some one remaining behind with the ship, and that Capt. T he inhabitants of St. John's ·have a thorough knowledge Buddington had willfully deserted those who, at his own com of the dangers of the Arctic eas, and were able to understand mand, had betaken themselves to the ice. The friends of Bud the sufferings and privations which the abandoned mariners dington claimed, on llhe other hand, that back of all was a must have endured ere they were rescued. Therefore the ar story of mutiny and desertion which would only be brought rival of t>he Tigress with the survivors was impatiently ex to light by the return of the Polaris. pected at that port, and no ooner •had vhe ship dropped anchor Under these circumstances, and in view of the fact that in the harbour on the 12th, than crowds, putting off in boats, the Polaris had been sent out by the Government, and that it besieged the decks, and overwhelmed the strangers with in might be in need of as i tance, it was considered of great im tense curiosity and torrents of questions as w the origin of portance that the authorities at w ·ashington should be put, their strange condition, and the unparalleled powers of en as soon as possible, in posse sion of full and reliable knowledge durance which had •brought them triumphantly !through so of all the facts of the case. The Secretary of the Navy there many stupendous perils. fore, in the a~ence of any regular communication with St. But if the excitement on board the vessel was consider· John's, sent the U.S. Steamer Frolic, Commander C. tM. Schoon· able, the scene as the boat approached the shore was one of maker, to bring the party direct to 'Vashington. he sailed Wildel> t enthusiasm. It happened that there was ice in the from New York, for that purpose, May 15th. harbour, whioh in certain places obstructed their passage, and (Continued on Page 12) 12 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
ADRIFT ON THE FLOES (Continued) of the Polari party was commenced the same afternoon at the na\y yard before the Secretary of the :-lavy, Commodore 'Vil The Frolic arrived at St. John's, ~'lay 23rd. Taking the Polaris party on board, she tarted on her homeward trip on liam Reynolds, Professor Spencer F. Baird of the Smithsonian the 28th, and arrived at nhe Washington ~avy Yard on the 5th Institution, and Capt. H. "'· Howgate of the ignal Service. of June. Commander Schoonmaker reported that he had no The investigation lasted six dars and was very thorough, each trouble with his charge, and that they were all well-behaved, member of the patty being separately examined under oa th, orderly people. He had formed a very fa,·ourabJe opinion of excepting M1~. Han Christian, Punna, and the little Chr i~ ti a ns. Capt. Tyson, and considered him a remarkably intelligent man. Orders were given that no person should be allowed to The results of this investigation will be given at length in fol communicate with any one on the Frolic, and an examination lowing chapters.
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Black Jack Taylor
By C. D. Paid ey Johnson
This article was written thi1·ty night ~he heat was alruost as great a two yem·s ago and was redi covered in the daytime and our fish was rotting rece11tl-y. ll seemed to be alive with in the hold. a certain aspect of life in New foundland- (Author'; Note) Skipper Jack cured and stormed and then be-took himself to his bottle. At T was a wild winter night in a last the calm lifted and we proceeded I li ttle fishing village on the East coast on our way. In Rio we had to sell the of :"ooewfoundland. At one end of the fish at a loss and to make matters worse rillage a little cottage nestled snugly un one of our crew wa knifed in a water der the hill. Out of doors a furious front brawl. " 'hen we finally sailed for blizzard was raging and the waves beat home Skipper Jack was in a terrible thunderously on the rocks at the en· mood. Every night he drank himself trance of the 'tickle.' But in ide everything to sleep and the command of the ship was quiet. Two children were playing fell more and more to the mate. by the fire while their mother sat knit· ting. In the corner by the stove an old At last we sighted the Baccalieus and man was sitting. His face was tanned put into the bay to land some cargo. and seamed by eventy years of exposure All day we slaved under the skipper's to wind and weather and with one lashing, cursing tongue, for he was bent gnarled hand he clasped lovingly the on getting back to Seldom Harbour as MORE bowl of a blackened clay pipe. soon as possible. It was the latter part of :'llovember and all day the clouds had Tiring at last of their game the child· been gathering in the sky. Late in the ren approached him and one of them . afternoon. when we had all the cargo SMILEAGE a little girl about seven years old, said: ashore, a terrible snowstorm came up, ·Tell us a tory Grandpop," The old man driven by a raging gale. fOR YOUR MONEY said nothing but drew from his pocket :\'one of us had any thought of sailing a plug of 'Beaver' tobacco and a battered that night for it would ha,·e been mad YOU ' LL LIK£· 11'$ jack-knife and began to methodically ness to venture
THE PEACE OF GHENT AND END OF WAR OF 1812
By DR. ROBERT SAUNDERS, J. D. (Dr. Ju ris) Graduate of Boston, New York, Columbia, Rutgers and Iowa State University, the College of Law of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Diploma in International affairs, University of Minnesota.
(The following was not included with the article as headed above in the \\'inter Issue of the Quarterly due to lack of space.)
John Quincy Adams. " The Peace of Ghent, 1814 (Edited by S. E. Morison - Old South Pamphlets, Boston) John Quincy Adams. ''Documents Relating to Transac tions at the Negotiations of Ghent (Washington, 1822) Granl Alleris Historical Guides of Belgium. London 1897. American Weekly Messenger, 1813-1814. Baron O'Estournelles De Constant. "The Peace of Ghent and the War of 1914, Reveiw of Reviews. Jan. 1915. Dictionary of National Biography, on Gambier. Vol. 20, London 1889. Theodore Dwight, "History of the Hartford Convention, Old South Leaflets, Boston. James Gallatin " The Diary of James Gallatin, 1813- 1827" (Secty to Albert Gallatin) New York 1914. Henry Gibson Belgium, New York 1939. Great Peacemaker, The Spectator, Jan. 16. 1915 and Black woods. March 191 'i. Great Treaty, Independant Magazine. Feb. 15 , 1915 . J. M. Harper. The Peace Coming After, Canadian Maga zine, Oct, 1 913. Harper's Encylopaedia, of U. S. History ( 1905 ). Joseph Hatton ~ Rev. M. Harvey. Neu;foundland, Boston 1883. Lyman B. Jakes. Ghent and the Treaty. Canadian Maga )tv:+_,,..- zine, Dec. 1914. William James, NauaJ History of Great Britain. 4 vols .. London 183 7. Captain A. T. Malan, D.C.L.. LI.D .. Sea PoUJer in its ~~~ Relations to the u;ar of 18 12. Boston l 9 2 5. Captain A. T. Malan, The Negotiations at Ghent in 1814. American Historical Review. Oct. and Dec., 1905. vP~7~: S. E. Morison, The Treaty of Ghent and the Negotiations that Follou;ed, 1814-1 5, (Boston). Sir Nicholas H . Nicholas. A History of the Royal Nauy, The Centenary of the Treaty of Ghent, Outlook, Feb. 22, London 184 7. 1913. Niles Weekly Register, 1813-1815. The Diary of James Gallatin in Europe Scribers, Sept. Dr. Adam Seybert, Statistical Annals, Philadelphia, 1818. 1914. Scot's Magazine, 1814-1815. Frank A. Updyke, Ph.D. The Diplomacy of the W ar of William M. Sloane, The Treaty of Ghent Paper read be 1812, Baltimore, 1915. fore the New York Historical Society. 1 ov. 17, Thomas Wilson, The Treaty of Ghent, Magazine of 1914. American History. Nov. 1888. STAN FOWLER INSURANCE AGE NCI ES - C.O.T.C. BLDG. REPRESENTING THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES: • AMERICAN NATIONAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., NEW YORK • HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE CO. • HARTFORD ACCIDENT AND INDEMNITY CO. • THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL UNDERWRITERS AGENCY OF THE YORKSHIRE INSURANCE CO. LTD. • NIAGARA (DETROIT) FIRE INSURANCE CO. 130 WATER ST. P. 0 . BOX 'E-5342 DIA L 85531 RES . 80330 THE NEWFOUNDLA.ND QUARTEilL\: l!i Your Law Makers
Al'GCSTDIE ~J. DCFFY, :M .H .A., Bom Candidate in 1956 in new district of in L. John's in 1905. Son of Irs. Mary St. John ·s Centre and won the election. and the late .Michael A. Duffy. Educated Represented St. John's Centre as Con at St. Bonaventure's College. Studied servati~e until 1959 when he broke with philosophy under Eudi t Fathers, Holy Conservatives over the Term 29 Is ue. Heart Seminary, Halifax. :'-lew Party foi'Jned named United New Operates own business - Colonial Sta foundland Party of which he was co tionary Limited and A. :M. Duffy Limited, founder. In PnH·incial election of 1959 166-168 Water Street. he ran in old district of St. John's Centre Entered political field in 1951 and ran fm· the newly formed party and was as Conservative Candidate for Ferryland elected. He took his seat in House of !)·;strict. Lost election by 31 votes, but in .-\ssembly for next parliament as leader itiated proceedings for a recount in s·u of that party. preme Court which resulted in his being He i. a past Grand Knight and past e lected by 2 vote>. He sat in House for hort time representing Ferryland when State Deptll) of Knights of Columbus. the election was annuled and a by-elec He is a member ot the St. John's Rotary tion was called in 19:)2, when he lost Club, Boa1·d of Trade, City Club, Bally his seat. Ran again as Conservative Haly Golf and Countr~ · Club. H ' GUSTINE ~J. DUFFY, l\I.H.A.
GEORGE W. CLARKE, B.Sc., M.H.A. JOHN ROCHE O'DEA, M.H.A. GEORGE WILLIAM CL.-\RK.E, B. c. ISAAC MERCER, b
CHARLES M.-\XWELL. LANE, 16 eration of Fishermen and served for ten Cornwall Crescent, St. John 's. Born Sep years with the organization. Organiled tember 20th, 1905 at Salvage, Bonadsta the :-.lewfoundland Brotherhood of \VOOd. Bay. Educated at Salvage High School, Workers - became its first President Bi hop Feild College and Memorial Col February, l9:j9, holding the post for one leg_c. Entered the teaching profession ~ · eaL Ente red politics as a Liberal can 1922. Taught school at Salvage, l"etley, didate Eor White Bay ="'onh, 1956 an!( Harbour Buffett, King's Cove, Long elected; re-elected in I 959 in the sa 111e Beach , \Voody Point and Heart's Con district. .-\ppointed Minister of Public tent. Entered the Magistracy 1935 - Welfare June, 1961 ~1arried Hilda Ware. served at \\' oody Point, Greensponcl, ham of H arbour Buffett-.-\ugust, 1935. Clovenown, Clarenvill e. Chairman of the Three children : Norman, Marie and Fishermen's Con\'ention April, 19:j l. Ac Anita. R eligion: Anglican, Organizations: cepted the post of General Secretary of S.U.F., I.O.O.F., and L.O.A. Hobbies: the newly organized ="'ewfoundlancl Fed- Hunting, boating and fishing.
C. MAX LANE, M.H.A.
JO~ ES. ERlC S. , M.H.A .. Burin, Born cational Supervisor with Canadian Legion :-.lovember 27, 1914 at Fogo. Son of late Educational Services (B.E.S.L.) from l\[ark and Deborah (Soper) J ones. Edu 1940 to 1944. Joined ewfoundland cated at St. Andrew's High Schoo1 Fogo .\fagistracy 1944, ~ erved at Harbour Bre and ·Memorial University. :\1arried to ton and Grand Bank until 1955. Mem N ina Smith of St. John's. Four ohild ber of South Coast Commission set up ren , Maxine (Mrs. Fred \\1 hite) Santo bv Provincial Government to study eco Domingo, Doreen, Sharon, Eric Jr. at nomic conditions on the Coast. Liberal .\{ember for District of Burin 1956, re home. Taught school variou places in e lected 1959. R eligion: Anglican. Mem :-Jewfoundland from 1931 to 1940, includ ber of Masonic, Loyal Orange A sociation, ing two years Principal International Society of nitecl Fishermen, Lions and Grenfell Association Boarding chool, Laurier Clubs. Addres : 266 Freshwater Cartwright, Labrador. Served as Edu- Road, t. J ohn's ="'ewfoundland.
ERIC S. JONES, M.H.A.
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- DR. ROBERT SA.UNDERS, J. D. (Dr. Juris) Graduate of Boston, New York, Columbia, Rutgers and Iowa State Universities, the College The Greenspond Saga by of Law of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Diploma in International Affairs, University of Minnesota. In History, Song and Story and RALPH WRIGHT.
"They founded ports as monuments, And if at this time, Greenspond could not boast To stand through coming years; of her primacy in Captains, the honour having passed And laid their deep foundations, to, "down the shore"; yet from the earliest Greenspond In toil and blood and tears." had her share of Captains and expert navigators, name OGET HER we will have a series of articles-pro ly, Robert Granter, William Stratton and Allan Wright. T bably three--on all phases of transport, communi In local transportation perhaps the first notice we cations, shipping, light-houses, ferries, etc. I will have have is the "Report of William McGill on Greenspond the earlier data in the 19th century and Ralph will Town" thus: bri ng o ut the data of the 20th century. Two or three I next proceeded to Greenspond, the roads here articles in all! are termed Woodsroads, and in a few years will be It is a tale of primitive life repeated in dozens of come a mass of rotten wood. They have been other areas in the island; al.though speaking of the mail made at a cost of ten shillings sterling per yard. If ro ute in 1884, it is said: "The Northern Mail Route; the commissioners had any idea of road-making they Ma ils by this route, the most important in the coun would have commenced at Garlands and gone on try. " (Assembly Proc. 1885). What is said of Greens in the front of what is known as Slade and Reed's pond itself, and Greater Greenspond, serves as a sort house in a straight line between Mrs. Bellow's and of pattern of the social and economic progress of many Mr. Smith's on the head of the harbour." scattered communities. This would have carried the street through the However, we should emphasize the fact, that village and near the water; a solid street could have Greenspond in its early days was one of the pivot been made e ight feet wide which would have been po ints in the North. Time and again in my search for quite sufficient in this place, as no horses or carts early data, I run across expressions such as: "start are likely to be used here, and not cost as much as ing at Greenpond," "from Greenspond the line is to the wood-roads. There is another mass of rotten tim spread" etc. Pointing out some places subordinate to ber from Garlands to Slade & Co., made in 1839. Greenspond it is true; but beginning or ending mainly This should be removed, not being safe to walk at Greenspond. Greenspond was always on the map! on." (Proceedings of General Assembly 1848-49). It was, w ith Bonavista and Twillingate a capital of the In this year of 1848-49 Greenspond Town, so de north, and, at times, more so than even the other twc signated, received sixty pounds for road contracts and larger settlements. the islands adjacent, forming a Greater Greenspond For example, we read John Delaney's report on the Town, received fifteen pounds. There was also a con Northern Mail Service for 1870 that: tract for a bridge for transport to Ship Island at a cost of thirteen pounds. But out of the seventy-five pounds; "The mails, during the present winter, are trans over ten pounds went to the executives- the Road mitted as follows, Vis. : for Greenspond via Har Board for their planning ability, etc. (Ibid). bour Grace; New Harbour; LeManche; Random; On transportation of mails Duly and Burne took the Bloody Bay; Salvage and Freshwater (Journal of the winter mails to Greenspond for slightly over twenty Legislative Council, 1871, Postmaster General Delaney to Robert Alsop, Colonial Secretary.) pounds sterling and Duly made special runs to Greens pond for slightly over five pounds (Assembly 1857). Let us look at another phase of the country's com In 1857 we read that it was found expedient to alter me rcial life half a century ago--The sealing Industry. the route of the mail North of Bonavista Bay; formerly Di d any sealer ever rendezvous at Twillingate or Bona they were conveyed by boat between Bo11avista, vista, the so-called capitals of the North? Certainly Greenspond, Fogo and Twillingate. Now in 1857 the not, the f irst was too far north for a March sailing and Greenspond mails are forwarded through Bonavista the other didn't have a good rendezvous point. But and Tickle Cove (Report of Post-Master General W. L. what do we find of Greenspond and its vicinity? Out Solomon to Hon . John Kent, Colonnial Secty, Assembly of twelve se aling steamers that went to the " Front" 1857). in 1917, for example, nine sailed from back of Greens pond Island down what was rightly named Pool's In 1863 Robert Ford received a salary of sixty Is land, and two from Wesleyville further "down the pounds for conveying the mails between Bonavista sh ore." And out of 196,228 seals brought in that parti and Greenspond, starting 27th February, an experi cu lar year 144,818 were brought in by the nine that mental trip was made overland via. Brigus with mail sa iled a mile or two down from Greenspond. In this for Greenspond, Fogo, and Twillingate. It seems that res pect Greenspond is, and was, strategically located, Mr. Smith McKay planned this with a view to ascertain fo r if the steamers could not get through to Cape ing, as was said "the practicability of establishing a Freels the Pool's Island way, they could sail up through permanent route by which mail could be forwarded Main Ti ckle, round Greenspond, and proceed North during the winter months." (Assembly 1864). after encirling Greenspond Island. (Continued on Page 19) 18 THE NEWTOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
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During the past few years we have produced
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About ten per cent of her lead and zinc; more than three percent of her cop per and silver.
Significant amounts of limestone, cement, gypsum and pyrophillite.
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Maritimes Mining Corpn. Ltd . started production in Aug. 1957 at Tilt Cove.
Atlantic Coast Copper Corpn. has started production in July 1961 .
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Tra ined men are in great demand- Mining engineers, geologists, prospectors and construction men and tradesmen of all kinds are being used in increasing numbers every year.
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'filE GREENSPOND SAGA (Continued) Lang (and his daughter Agnes later) was the postmas Mr. McKay's Report ·and Plan is addressed to the ter at a salary of ten pounds per annum (roughly Hon. Robert Carter, Royal Navy, and Colonial Secre $50.00). This side of the transportation problem didn't tary, thus: "A messenger to be dispatched from return the Government much revenue. The total postage collected was less than six pounds ($30.00) Greenspond say 16th January; the two northern and stamps sold four pounds (roughly $20.00) and messengers to meet the southern one who should inland postage, so called, was less than five pounds be despatched from Brigus on the same day {Jan. ($25.00). 16th). An Indian to meet the northern messenger, and then from Greenspond to Freshwater, a day In these 1860's- a century ago-there was quite a and a half journey for the thirty-five miles plus a foreign trade to, and from, Greenspond, direct to cost of forty pounds from Twillingate and Fogo to foreign countries- Portugal, Italy, Spain, the Hanseatec Greenspond (Ibid). Towns (headquarters in London and Hamburgh) be sides a quota to Great Britain. It seems certain that Mr. McKay adds:- the then letter rate was twenty-five cents a half-ounce, " From freshwater Bay I despatched one of the and more if going abroad. So brigs and schooners Ind ians to Greenspond with the mails, he taking the going abroad carried some mail free, especially for ice here (meaning walking over the deeply frozen ice). the business houses they traded with in the foreign Of course the winter mail was always to Greenspond countries. by Micmac Indians for a good half a century after this 1863 report. The most notable one was John Joe who According to 1863-64 report one of 178 tons came travelled with his dogs, and mail on the sleigh, from inward with cargo from British possession, three came Ga mbo to Greenspond, a distance of thirty or forty from Portugal w ith cargo-presumably salt for the fishery- and one from the Hanseatic Towns- 149 tons miles. ~ bringing the Hamburgh bread- hard tack- in bags It is significant to get this letter to me from Greens of fifty to one hundred pounds each. This hard-tack pond, on January 31st, 1962 that in "brin" bags was brought in this way for a full half a-century from the 1850's. Then there was Spain with "The two mailmen then were Allan Pritchett and three vessels bringing in the salt mainly. Then four John Joe with a team of dogs to bring the mail from of British registry-total 509 tons- with cargo and Ga mbo to Greenspond twice a week." one, of 210 tons, in ballast. The manufactured goods The General Post Office at St. John's issued this flannel, moleskin, woolen socks, cutlery etc., came statement on July 17, 1863: from Great Britain. "It would be desirable to employ the Indians in Outward bound in the early 1860's we find one conveying the mails, the ensuing winter, as it is very year of 1863, three Portuguese, two Italian with cargo doubtful whether any person would be had in the - dried codfish of course. The fish was then often Northern settlements to take up the contract for the packed loose in the hold; but as Greenspond had two service as now proposed and without any clearly or three cooperage houses- the Granters and the defined route (Reported in Assembly Proceedings Osmonds--it was not unusual to "drum" up the fish in 1864). small drums about half the size of a small barrel of today. It was proposed to have at least three mails during the winter months, and the cost for the four winter As Great Britain was predominant in shipping it mo nths for the outgoing mail from Greenspond to seems fairly clear that foreign vessels- so-called--en Fres hwater (meaning up Gambo way) was set at fifteen tering were of British Registry. For we find several pounds (Ibid). British vessels entered in 1863 and about same num ber "cleared" with cargo. This was in addition to ves Perhaps the first regular transport by ship may be sels designated as "foreign outward" (Data in As said to be the agreement between the Hon. Robert sembly Records, 1864). Ca rter, acting Colonial Secretary, and Robert Grieve to run the steamer Ariel north and south of Newfound Shipwrecked vessels were a big problem a cen land. Mr. Grieve owned the "steam Propeller" Ariel tury ago. An analysis of this will show the primitive and the agreement provided that in going north she conditions, and how our Greenspond- and of course was to touch at Bay-de-Verd, Trinity, Catalina, Bona all Newfoundland-lived, moved, and had their being. vista, Greenspond and Fogo (Ibid). The old records cover several pages every year of the name of the vessels, the Captain, where lost etc.; how Apparently the authorities in the capital city didn't they got home, and who "dieted" them in the har know northern weather conditions. They dispatched bours while waiting for passage, a few samples will the Ariel on 26th December, (1863) with the mails for suffice to ilustrate the problem. Greenspond, Fogo and Twillingate. The report of that experiment says she only got as far as Greenspond, The "Amazon" lost at Cape Freels, Paid Medical adding : "she has returned without being able to land Hunt for boat and crew to convey passengers to ma ils at the two latter places from obstacles offered by Greenspond. Wiliam Yetman was paid for four cof th e ice (Assembly 1864). fins for those lost in the Amazon and paid too for feeding the Amazons crew of thirty-five men four In this same year, for the summer mail, the H.M.S. days. As she was lost 20th February 1867, it was ap Vesuvius, Captain Hamilton, Royal Navy, played a parently a sealing brig. double role as Fishery Protection Cruiser, or gunboat, and as a carrier of mails and passengers. Mr. William (Continued on Page 20) 20 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
THE GREENSPOND SAGA (ConLinued) The Mayflower was wrecked and the "Ariel" carried four men of the crew from Greenspond to Fogo. The "Adamant" was lost the next year and thirty men were brought to Greenspond from Pinchard's Island. George Wright was paid for feeding Captain Alcock his wife and two children plus fifteen men a day and a half. (Assembly Records, 1869). It appears that the "Adamant carried 142 men and women and 18 child ren as the "Ariel" picked them up in Greenspond and conveyed them to Harbour Grace. Dr. Skelton in Greenspond was paid over three pounds (roughly $15.00) for "Medical Attendance." The Othello was lost and Dr. Skelton attended the sick at a cost of two pounds (roughly $9.00). George Bridle boarded ten men. On June 3rd. that the for Othello's crew and passengers from Greenspond "was prevented by the ice in an attempt to get South, ran for Open Hall, where she landed her passengers." (Assembly 1870). The "Selah Hutton" was wrecked and her 36 men family got to Greenspond in two skiffs. In the same year W. Sparks supplied food for thirteen men of the "Britannia" lost. And Isaac Wakely supplied food for 13 men wrecked in the "Volunteer" (Ibid). The Atilla was lost on March 24th 1868, and men were con fun. veyed from Fogo to Cat Harbour on their way to Greens pond. The "Perseverance" of Greens pond was lost and her crew of six was sent home by way of St. John's (Assembly 1869). The Mayflower was lost in the Southern part of the Bay and a skiff was hired to send 10 men to Greenspond. Brooking & Co. in Greenspond were then paid for provisions {Ibid, 1868). These instances are cited to illustrate the then dangerous conditions with only one light-house that at the "Offer Wad hams." That light-house was then burning seal oil at a cost of roughly 46 pounds (about $230.00). The keepers salary was set at 1 00 pounds a year with an assistant. This did not give good service to the Mariners. Robert Oake, Inspector of Light-houses made his report as early as 1863-64 on the Wadham' light that: "Complaints on Wadham light and keepers. Per haps a political plum as the keeper was installed over the heads of Assistant keepers who were in service 10 or 12 years." (Ibid 1864). To further aid in safe transportation the Legislature in 1866 considered putting a light-house on Puffin Island ,on the left as vessel enter Greenspond Harbour. Robert Oake, Inspector of Light-houses wrote the "Chairman of the Board of Works", Henry Renouf in St. John's, on this problem of Puffin Island he says: "Lies something less than three-quarters of a mile south of the entrance to Greenspond Harbour, in extent 300 yards North and South and 400 yards East and West. Easy of access except in bad weather. Catalina, Greenspond and Seldom-Come-By are regarded as the three northern harbours of refuge, and when it is borne in mind that but one of these harbours has the benefit of a Light-house, Puffin THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 21
Is land, as a desirable site will not be disputed, to later in the summer and from four to five days in the render access to Greenspond at night comparatively fall season (Assembly 1868). r free from danger, the establishment of a harbour light on the island referred to has been universally On local steam service Mr. John Delaney, then admitted, for the interest of navigation as neces Postmaster General ends his 1869 report on this, so sary." (Ibid 1870}. that no one would lose his passage or his mail dispatch that:- 1 may say that the light on Cabot Island {early known as the Stinking Islands) received a report "A gun on board to be fired when the steamer in the Assembly of 1881 that:- entered a port after nightfall; Flag to be hoisted on the arrival of the mails in port, and to be lowered "Light on this island was put in operation on at half-mast an hour before closing time" (Mr. March 1st last, and reports received from ... the Delaney to Colonial Secty, Ibid 1870). neighbourhood and masters of vessels are satisfac tory as regards the character of the light." Gentle readers please don't smile; that was the way our forebears lived, moved and had their being a cen In 1868 John Kavanagh was sent on the boat tury ago. "Robert" to survey "The Great Northern Mail Route." (To be continued). He landed on Gooseberry Island on entering Freshwa ter Bay, and "tied up" at John Pritchetts wharf. His re A Subscription to THE NEWFOUNDLAND port deals with the laying out of roads to connect one QUARTERLY would be a welcome gift for settlement with another. His report to the Government that friend away from home. reads in part. "Should the Government decide on cutting a line to Greenspond it ought to commence at this brook (Tarbitts Waters and Pond); for Greenspond lies from NIGHT or HOLIDAYS PHONE 82838 or 83446 here ... East and by South. One of the couriers sug gested that the Government cause a few tilts to be built on this route, to rest in at night-that is all GEO. SUMMERS they would require." (Assembly Records, 1869). & SONS Mr. Kavanagh was apparently a man of action for he writes Robert Alsop, Chairman of the Board of Works WATER STREET EAST that: "Wrote you and gave the letter to John Pritchett to be posted at Greenspond for St. John's." and on September 21 st-"Wrote you this day via Greens GENERAL TRUCKING pond" (Ibid}. The great overland mail route didn't solve all the We are equipped to handle all kinds of transport problems; for we read a little over a decade later on courier complaints. Heavy Machinery "The great cause ... is the smallness of the tilts and their miserable construction, either the mails or AT YOUR SERVICE AT ANY TIME men must lie out under the weather, as there is not properly speaking, sufficient room for either. They have been compelled to cut wood and boughs to make a covering for the mails, and then are cramped for wa nt of room in the tilt for themselves! (Report in "MARK EVERY Assembly 1885). c)lfrotgrf WITH Websters dictionary says: (a tilt in Newfoundland MARBLE and Labrador is a kind of log house in which the logs couitlle.rr THE SACRED are set upright). cf£nerallon.r A letter to me under date Jan. 13th 1962 says of MEMORY the Indian John Joe coming from Gamba to Greens STONE pond that
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EARLY HISTORY OF HARBOUR GRACE -< By Mrs. May Davis 1RY ..... There is a gap in the notes from which by Robertsons of Liverpool. The chr·ist - I write these articles and so we must ening was done by John Munn and she LILAC ..... go from 1837 to 1849. Sometimes it may was named after the lady of Sir William be possible to fill in the gap. Tarbett. Mercantile houses in the town 9 were gaily bedecked with flags on the We shall commence wirh June 1849. 1EA 0 day of the launching. w·}len the ship "Glide," Capt. E. Pike :1> sailed from Harbour Grace with 49 pas A name often found in historical and vou~ll senger for ew York. This is the first notes is that of Mr. McBriare and we find that premises of his were sold at King's f instance of any emigrant leaving Con V' ception Bay. The greater number went Cove. 0 to Wisconsin and oilier U.S.A. states. agree In 1850 the death of Lady Pynn is re Names mentioned are John Hayward and .-- corded at Cheltenham, England. She was Ed. Pynn and family, as being among 0 a native of this district, probably of l'his the emigrants. very town and was the wife of Sir Henry it can't Cl:l During 1849 a meeting was held at the Pynn who had fought at Waterloo. Many -< Hr. Groce Court House for the purpose descendants remain today of the same of forming a Total Abstinence Society. name. be beat :1> This was done with John Munn becom ,.... Reading on from our notes we see the ing President, Pinsent and Roddick were ,.... name of G. C. Gaden as being made among those of the Society. Sheriff of the Northern District in 1850 for On July 14 Capt. Azariah Munden was and Nicholas Molloy M.D. as M.H.A. married at Liverpool, England to Mary of Brigus. Furthermore Brigus names Julia Henley. are noted in the record of a meeting of flavour the Brigus Club with Stephen Percy as John Bingley Garland sold out exten President and W . J. Stentaford as Secre sive property at New Perlican in that tary. year. This property later belonged to the Bemisters. It consisted of two blocks On February 7th, 1850 the Wesleyan of stores, 2 wharves, and rooms and ohurch at Harbour Grace was burned at plantations at &illy Cove nearby. More 4.30 a.m. the fire being noticed by a lad property was sold at Trinity North, Bona going in the woods. In connection with vista and Greenspond by Garland. this Lieut. Coen. John Munn and Rev. Fr. Cummings were publicly thanked for The premises of Pack's at Carbonear; services rendered. lately occupied by Pack, Fryer and Gosse was offered for sale in 1849. Tt con John Munn contributed One Hundred sisted of store, wharf and house with Pounds towards the erection of a new extensive garden and a lime kiln on the church and Sheriff Garland allowed the orth side of the main street. Court House to be used by the 'Wesleyans fur Sabbath services. This church had [n November 1849 an attempt was made been built in 1817 by Rev. George by Mr. Valentine, an agent of Kemp & Oubitt. Co. to stop "the nefarious practice of using Sunday and Monday alike" Mr. One still hears of the work of the Valentine was a Wesleyian Methodist and Dorcas Society and this organization dates he made it his business to put a stop to back to early years. A meeting in 1850 the "Desecration of the Sabbath Day." elected Mrs. Drysdale as President. Mrs. Thereby, he drew a read hornet's nest St. John as Secty and Mrs. Munn as about his ears and brought derision upon Treasurer. himself and his principals. Many a de The annual meeting of the Benevolent risive cheer was given as the 1st barrow Irish Society held that year elected Dr. of fish was loaded aboard a fish vessel for William Sterling as President, and Mr. J. despatch to an early market. Fitzgerald as Secretary. From the W'eekly HeraLd of which The spring of 1850 is remembered as a Charles St. John was the editor we learn long one with a protracted sealfishery that in that winter, the Arabella Tarbett because of ice conditions. The catch was was launched from across the street 'By a·bout 1300 which should help out by Victoria St. (This brig said to have been better prices but the old saying is used. the most beautiful ever built in New "that in the long run, no one's the fou ndland was built by Michael Kearney) better for what's got at the ice." and had a full sized figure head carved (Continued on Page 24) 24 THE NEWTOUNDLAND QUARTERLY
In 1850 three thousand Pounds were In June the foundation stone of the granted for the making and improving new Wesleyan Church was laid the cere. of Harvey treet but it seemed that not mony being performed by Rev. Mr. Shen. much was done about this at that time. stone. Trustees John Munn. Wm. St John. Hy. Webber, Richard Anderso~ The marriage of Capt. James Brown and !Mark Parsons. of the brig. Margaret Ridley to Louis, eldest daughter of John Trapnell is re Plans were made for the immediate corded. erection of a flour mill at Rivel'head but this mill was never a success. May 24. The Queen's Birthday-and Rev. Mr. Faulkner preached here. He the military under !Lieut. Coen went had been minister of the Wesleyan their accustomed evolutions after which Church in this country for 20 years He a select party of ladies and gentlemen later returned to England. In July, the went to the apartments of rhe gallant finn of Ridley & Harrison disolved part commander to drink the •health of Her nership and the firm became known as Majesty, Queen Victoria. Ridley and Sons. Ridley gave Fifty Pounds to the new Wesleyan Church. In August In June the marriage of Capt. John Ridley began the erection of a new Munn of Brig. Clutha to Eli21abeth, premises on '.Vater Street adjoining This daughter of Capt. George Brown of Brig. tle's Brook Building to be of brick and Haidee was solemnized by Rev. Mr. stone and to be among the best in British Chapman, St. Paul's Churoh. orth America.
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On the premises now occupied by the flour and a small modicum of molasses, fonh -wi th a discussion arose as to the Im perial Oil Co. at St. John's, there flour and was tied in a cotton bag and boiled qualit) of the wood it was composed of. ished in the old days, a firm by the name to the right point for eating. The Cook, whose memory was not by of \\' m. Stevens, ot· more commonly For a dinnet· the copper would usually any means bad, kept silent, except for an kn own h) the native seal hunters as the rake from twenty to twenty-fi,·e of these occasional suggestive remark about the "Dundee Finn." The Dundee room own duffs, and often one o1· more were left kind of tree the burl grew on. ed two scaling steamers, the Terra Nova over. On this panicular day there was and the Aurora, and exported their skins 1:--inally they took the object ashore, one left over. It was about the size of a and seal oil to their Firm in Dundee in where some shipwrights of Scotch blood fair turnip, and without anv thought <;cotl and, by the same sealing steamers. were working, and asked their opin·ion on ~he outcome of his action. the cook. on the subject. On being given permis The sealers fare, at !'he ice fields, has pushed the left over duff in on a shelf ~ion, the Scot; man proceeded to saw the during the past three o1· four decades, im in nhe galley, ordinarily used for the duff into Sections and calling it Green proved to a very great extent, and when captain's cabin bread pans. Gradually heart, Lignum Vitae and several other one compares the food of today with that the heat hardened the duff which had kinds of hardwood, and as often discard of say fifty years ago, one is truck with heen completely forgotten by the cook. ing their choice as wrong, gave up, but wonder. almost with awe, at the hard kept a mall piece to conduct funher Two years after this happening the ship the ~ewfoundlanders underwent im·estigations on. and the way they thrived on the rough Terra ~ova 's turn came to take the skins It was not until the ship ·was well clear fare of those days. and oil home to Scotland. and after dis charging, was being given a thorough of the Scotch coast that the cook passed Somewhere around sixty years ago the cleaning by the crew-the galley being on the secret to the crew, that the much Terra ~ova had a cook named John no exception. discussed burl of hardwood was nothing Grant, probably a native of North Eng more or less than a clu ff left over from land, who was noted for his . ability to Soon a round, slightly flattened object dinner two years ago, and scasonoo smok cook that icefield dessert, known as a was discovered in the galley, muah re ed and hardened b)' the h eat of the gal "duff." which consisted mostly of water, sembling a burl one finds on tree and ley fires. AN EPIC STORY DUNLOP In the field of PRODUCTS NEWFOUNDLAND HISTORY The Role of the • I RUBBER BELTING ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND • WATER, STEAM & AIR HOSE REGIMENT IN ONE OF THE I • VEE BELTS TWENTY FAMOUS NAVAL ACTIONS STERNSON PRODUCTS OF ALL TIME, THAT OF CONCRETE ACCELERATORS LAKE ERIE, SEPT. 10, 1813 WATER PROOFERS HARDENERS Dr. Robert Saunders, J.D., Etc. BONDING AGENTS Thi~ fully documented history has never been published. WM. NOSWORTHY $2.00 PER COPY LIMITED For sale by P. 0. BOX 1058 ST. JOHN'S • Dicks & Co. e Gray & Goodland • Royal Stores • Ayre & Sons e and at Newsstands DIAL 5126 26 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUAR TEltLY Holiday --- By Mrs. Alex Marshall CHAPTER IV UINDAY morning dawned fair and ers came round the corner and edged " \Veil perhaps yo11 are no t good to Swarm. "Another charming day," I said nearer and nearer to where we were her," I suggested. lying; they all had their backs flatten to Marion, as we walked across the ''Yes we is," they said, "we brings water ed against the side of the house. fields with our water-buckets, to fill for 'er, and gets wood, but she don't them at the well near Mrs. Hancock's "Hello," s "T here was a lady from Tdnity stayin' 'e wa gone out the other day I looked the rugs Teddy said, "I suppose yous ,dth A'nt Kate Porter, and she a ked u in the window and there she was all by 'ave been to the Lilly Pond." come an · visit 'er." 'erself eatin' double poie." 10 ''No, where is that?" we asked. "T hat will be lovely for you," I said. ''I'm afraid you little boys talk too "You knows where the o ld Mill is?" ··Will yo u r father give you the money?" muoh," Marion said. "You should be very "Yes." ·'We have ou1· own money," Teddy respectful to your mother and love her, and then I am sure she would like you. s;tid . "Frank picked up ten dollars at " Well v.~ hen you gits to the old Mill, Now tell us about the beautiful country the station last week after the tra·in had you strikes into the woods behind it, you have here. and ·in a few minu tes you comes o u t gon e." uppose you boys know all the roads; to the pond. It is grand rhere; you can " I ~ tha t so?' ' asked Marion. "Was it we have had some lovely walks." git in a punt and scull out and pick ·white the da) we carne?" water-lillies." "W·here did you go?" they asked. · · ~ o · m ," they both answered smiling, " Oh how lovely!" said Marion, "We quick to see what she insinuated in fun. ''' Veil we walked to Lethbridge, and must go there. ' Vould you boys like "\\'e ·a ~ some other money beside that," out on the Sou thern Bay Road." to stay to tea and walk to the Lilly Frank info nned us. " ' Ve has 'ens of "Oh moy," they exclaimed,, "dere's Pond after with us?" our own, an ' we saves up their eggs an' a h awful big bull on the Sout'em Bay Needless to say they were charmed to do sells 'em.·· road. If 'e 'ad a-seen you, you would so, and they wen t to bring in some wood "Yes,'' said Teddy, "but we 'as to 'ide 'ave 'ad to r u n." for M-arion . 'I could hear ~h em chatting ·em from farder; 'e likes 'em so much 'e to her from the kitchen. "Dear me, it is a good thing we did could eat six to a time." "It i no troub-le to get plenty of wood not know th at Marion," I said. "Does your stepmother like them too?" to burn in tJhis place, is it?" she was 1 asked. " Yes,'' she replied, " but 'I llhink that saying. "HO\v many mills are there if that were so those men we met would around?" " ~ o she never eats one at all. We have told us." ' Lemme see," said Teddy. "Farder, 'e don't know what' the matte1· with 'er, got a mill; ncle George Porter, 'e got >he don't eat notJhin'." The boys amu ed u with their chatter a mill; Solomon 'Ancock, 'e got a mill; for quite a while, telling us many won "Yes, she do," put in Frank," he eall! ·r ram 'An cock 'e got a mill; Mr. Tom derful things, but as to their accuracy pills." Smart, 'e got a mill; Caleb Lipbridge, we could not vouch. "Yes." said Teddy, "she eats pills. I 'e got a mill; Albert Lipbridge, 'e got a believe she's hoy o ' farder; she don't At last it was time to go in and pre mill; Joshua Lip bridge, 'e got two mills; eat much when farder's 'orne, but when pare tea, and while we were folding up (Continued on Page 28) e Steamship Terminal Operators BUILDING SUPPLIES e Contracting Stevedores MURRAY'S ROOFING (all kinds) e Public Warehouse Operators ALSO DOORS - PLYWOOD AND ALL BUILDING MATERIAL Representing ENGINE DEPARTMENT NEWFOUNDLAND CANADA STEAMSHIPS LTD. PETTER LIGHTING PLANTS Direct Shipping Service DRAIN PIPE COPPER TUBING From t~nd a full line of all Machinery, Supplies and Plttlngs. Halifax, N.S. and Montreal, Que. to St. John's SCAW M URRAY AGENCIES 6 SAWS T RANSPORT CO., LTD . A. H. MURRAY &·COMPANY, LTD. ST. JOHN'S PHONE 82031 ·2·3 P. 0 . BOX 2155 28 THE NEW F O UNDLAND QUAR TERLY HOLIDAY REMINISCE7'CES (Conl'd.) a fine morning we arc going with ''That will be fine, Herman," 1 said, Florrie Pye and some others." "are you sure you boys can manage the ~feschec 'Eart, 'e got a mill; Zakiel 'An· boat?" cock 'e got a n"lil! "Dere's a crowd goin ' picking partridge berries at \Vallie's }>oint; they're startin' "Yes indeed, M,t'am," he replied , look. "Oh Tedd) ," )farion cried, "that's at five in the mornin'. Frank an' me ing amused, " ' Ye goes across nearly even· enough." She came into the kitchen wanted to go, but they would not take day." · shaking with laughter. "Did you hear us. Teddy informed us. him:." As we walked through the fie lds o n our "1 thought you boys were going to way to the wharf, we met o ld Mrs. Han ''Yes. 1 said, ··1 thought the poor Lhild Trinitv tomoJTow," 1 aiel. cock, and sropped to tell here where we would lo~e his breath.'' were going. "Oh yes, so we are," said Teddy, with The bO)S did ample justice to their a queer little smile. ''Frank we must "Oh," she aid, ·'will you take me supper. They informed us that they al be ~ure not to forget to pack our tooth too? I want to go to Lethbridge to see wa)S had their Sunday dinner Saturday paste and brushes. . . ·• my little sick grandson." night, which explained their large ap petites. .'\s we drew near home and were ad ·'Yes indeed," we said, "come right miring the view, and moonlight on ~he along." Teddy and Fr Footnote to History In February, 188 1, a new steamer, the S.S. Resolute, left Dundee with a Scot~ ~Y-~r.,~·y ..o.J.oX~:~:,.-. Y !>.~- Captain Arthur Jackman a :\fate and <'((~ <:;~:;~' The Captain wanted to put back to Scotland, but bluff Captain Jackman said KIWANIS TUNA TROPHY AWARDED ''No,'' She'll make one of two ports - St. John's, 1 ewfoundland or Davy Jones' FOR 1961 SEASON Locker. She was barque-rigged so they made The trophy awarded annually by the a 765 pound tuna caught on September ail at once. Jackman had the ca1'Penter Kiwanis Club of St. John's for the largest 18, also on "Miss Towne and Country." construct a wooden funnel lined with .Biuefin tuna caught on rod and line in Outstanding multiple catche were made sheet iron (from oargo) and had two ~ew foundl and waters has been won by by Al Vardy, with eleven, Dave Lush, man shift round the clock pouring water Jaime ·wyatt, of St. John's, who boated with eight tuna and Arden Haynes with on it. an 834 pounder aboard the tuna boat six. Third place in weight also went to Jackman had on board a crate of "Miss Towne and Country" on Septem Mr. Wyatt for his 745 pound tuna caught carrier pigeons which he planned to ber 15. on September 17 on the " Moose Pie." breed to carry messages from the sealing The trophy was presented to :\fr. Wyatt Certificates of Merit were presented to voyage. A couple of these he now re by Provincial Attorney General and Act the top anglers by Tourist Director 0. L. leased carrying a message to the builders ing Premier Hon. R. Curtic, Q .C., at L. Vardy. a special Kiwanis Dinner which featured in Dundee asking them to wire ·the A grand total of a record 133 tuna Bluefin tuna as the main dish on the owner's agents in St. John's, advising of were boated by rod and line anglers in menu. Hon . Dr. F. W. Rowe, Minister the accident and giving them dimensions ~ewfoundland ' s Conception Bay during to make a new funnel. of H ighways was guest speaker for the the 1961 season. As far as can be learn occasion. So "Resolute" shipped her new funnel Also honoured at the Dinner, which was ed, Jaime ·wyatt's 834 pounder constitutes and went to the seal fishery, returning held at the Newfoundland Hotel on Nov a world record for the 1961 season. This April 4th, with 35,025 seals; weight 711 ember 21, were four other anglers who makes the fourth such seasonal record tons, I 0 cwt, 1 qr. Her sealing crew of were highliners in the 1961 season. Ern taken from Conception Bay since fishing '275 men shared $130.18 apiece according hute, of Bell Island, placed second with commenced in 1956. to Levi Chafe's famous "Sealing Record." BIDGOOD'S WHOLESALE LTD . GOULDS, ST. JOHN'S WEST WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTORS GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS SOUTHERN SHORE ---PLACENTIA --- BONA.VISTA PRODUCERS OF " BIDGOODS" QUALITY SALT FISH and SMOKED FISH PRODUCTS AVAILABLE THROUGHOUT NEWFOUNDLAND :\lAIN OFFICE AND WAREHOUSE GOULDS, ST. JOHN'S WEST -- Dial 94184, 94185 FISH PROCESSING PLANT SELF SERVICE GRO CETERIAS Petty Harbour Goulds and Petty Hr. 30 T HE NEW FOUNDLAND QUAR TERLY VIEWS FROM The CrowS Nest By LARBOARD WATCH ERE i> anothe1· book issued for the the book the editor says, "T1he object of \\'hen the \'Olumes in one's collection Hsame purpose as the one we have just this liLLie work is to give to the public an ha\c been picked up at undry times and described, and in some respects like it. authentic and reliable account of the in \'a rio us places, each has associated This one is entitled, "The Newfoundland Colony, it~ conditions today and its pros with it interesting memories that arc Guide Book." It was prepared lby D. W . pects fo1· the future . . . In the small reca lled whenever the book is taken down l"rowse at the request of the Newfound ~pace at my disposal I have endeavoured from its niche. Here, for instance, is a la nd Government, and published in Lon to make this beautiful bu t maligned little volume that starts me off on the don lby Bradbury Agnew and Co. Ltd. country (the new p layground of America), following train of recollection. like the Hand-Book prepared by Mr. Har the sanatorium for the weary brain-work One day in Toronto I called at the vey it is made up largely of articles by ers of the Old World, known to my read office of Sir Alfred Morine, Kt., K.C., to different authors and extracts from of ers. ask his advice concerning a certain liter ficial reports. It is a book of 182 pages As might be gathered from these ary project that I had in m ind. He wa~ and contains numerous illustrations. The words, as well as from the title of this doubtful about the success of such pro topics treated in the wo11k are too many work, the book is designed principally jects as the one I had in mind, and spoke to be en umerated here, but mention for the use and benefit of sportsmen. of the apparent lack o.f intere t on the migh t be made of the following "Attrac The Hand-Book by Mr. Harvey was in part of the p ublic in a ve n ture of his tions of Newfoundland" by the Editor; tended rather for the use of those who own. This venture of his was a pamphlet "The Natural H istory of the Newfound were interested in the industries of the entitled "Sir Hugh Hoyles, Biography and land Caribou" by J. G. Millais; "Cari country. and for prospective settlers. :.\ppreciation." Sir Alfred gave m e a copv bou S.hooting in Newfoundland" by H. About thirty-nine years ago, a certain of his pamphlet and ki ndly autographed H esketh Prichard; "The Woodland Cari p ublishing concern in England issued a it. Thus another item was added to my bou in ~ewfou n d l and" by F. C. Selous; series of books under the general title, collection. "Sport in Newfoundland" by Captain Sir "The Story of the Empire." This series B1·yan Leighton, Bart; "Sketch of some was designed to supply the British sub Sir Alfred has dedicated h is pamphlet of the Sou thern R iver.~ of Labrador" by jecL~ witlh infonnation on the different thu~: "To Newfoundlanders everywhere H . .J. B. W oods, and "Geology" by J ames countries included in the Empire. this sketch is dedicated, as short and P. Howley. Concerning the pm·pose of The vol ume on , ewfou ndland, entitled, simple annals of a ~ative Son of whom "The S'tory of Newfoundland," was writ they have just cause to be proud." ten by Lord Birkenhead, and published In a previous article I described cer· in London by Horace Mar hal l and Son. tain books designed to publish reliable New All-Electric A second and enlarged edition of this information about ~cwfou n d l a nd . We book was published in 1920. \ 'fine i~ a now return to the theme of that article Copy Maker! copy of the second edition. as we discuss another work of this kind ..\s to the format of the book, it is a book hy Beckles Wilson entitled "The :i x i and a half inches in size, has 192 Trunh about Newfoundland, and Tenth pages and is cloth-bound-a neat little Island, Being an Account of our Senior volume in green a nd black. Except for Col ony. its People, its Politics, its Prob· ~~~ ···~.~ two maps there are no illustrations. The lems and its Peculiarities." This book ten chapters of •the book deal 'With nhe was first published in 1897, but my copy following subject : "The Land and its i~ one of an edition published in 1901 bv People: The Age of Discovery; Early Grant Richards of London. It is of or· ', V·.;n~~-~~;:" !&~tV'-: ':r. History; Early History (continued); The dinan· novel size. numbers 211 pages. EXclusive dry process eliminates Struggle for Existence; The English and has cloth binding. Except for a col chemicals; negatives. You make Colonial System and its R esults; Self oured map of ~ewfoundland there are no copies when you need them in Government; Modern ~ewfoundland; illuo;.trations in the book. just 4 seconds. New All-Electric The R eid Contract-and After; The machine. French hore Question." Tn this work Mr. Wilson appears as the Call for a demonstration Lord Birkenhead writes of Newfound champion of Newfoundland, "The Cin· derella of the Colonies," as he calls her. land in a purely historical way in keep ing with the plan of the series. The He beholds her suffering from neglect book doe. not contain any new informa and misunderstanding, and plagued by tion; no new ideas and here advanced the French who occupy an important part of the coast and arrogan tly assume Distributed by on such debated questions as the origin of the Boethuaks, nor are any personal rights and privileges beyond their law· ASKA SALES LTO . sentiment or judgment expressed. It is ful bc.unds. "Newfoundlanders" he say 38 Prescott Street, an outline of Newfoundland history. because of this occupation by the French, "are excluded from the fairer St. John's Nevertheless it is a valuable work, and Phones: very useful for those w.ho have not the half of their own territory." Si079 - 8i72-~7800 time and patience to read and digest such T 'he position from whioh the author We Welcome Yow Enquiries a 111ass of material as is found in the ~tarts out in his kni&'hterrant under·tak· history by Judge Prowse. ing on behalf of this ~rsecu ted Cin- THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 51 derella is >hown in the following para her to de1elop her natural resources and men, Sir Ambrose Shea, a Newfoundland urap hs. realite het· possibilities. er by birth and descent, and a capable " ·S cwfoundland is not on the visiting- :\s we read Mr. Wilson's hook we must man in every way, was offered and ac li .>l of Europe. Albeit at the very port keep in mind, of course, IJhat he is writing cepted the Govemorship. So great was als of the :\'orth-:\merican Continent, of a day that has pas ed. an.d that many the indignation in the country that ir 10 urists in their hundreds of thousands changes ha1·e taken place in . ewfound .-\ mbro e had to decline the appointment. annually pass her by-this Cinderella o( land since then. Even so it is hard to .-\n essay on the country roads of New the Colonies, who still somewhat lean believe, as we read the author's descrip foundland would be almost as short as the and rather ragged, crouches patiently in tion of conditions as he saw them in that memorable one on the snakes in Ireland. her corner of the hemisphere. country that was "The Truth about As I called to pay my respects at Her sister.s have flouted her; and all :\'ewfoundland'' only forty )Cars ago. Government House I was struck by the her relations have heaped oalumy-and ~fr. \Vilson·. de criptions of people and beauty of the country about me, as far cod-fish-upon her headlands. If she things in Xewfoundland are most inter as eve could reach. \\' ho would have be opened her mouth to speak, they have e,ting. \Ve quote some of his observations lieved this was Newfoundland? The roll thrust a cod-fish down her throat. Did ju t as they are without expressing any ing lands were bathed in the sunlight ,he smile? then they taunted her wit•h opinion concerning their Yalue, though of Jtaly, and studded with trees and fogs . we do find it difficult to accept some of houses and intersected with picturesque Co nsi de ring the popular ignorance of them - the story about the tea at the bt·ooks and fine roads. its aspeot and capacities, the Tenth Is Quarries, for instance - as having strict The Newfoundland fisherman is, in land should be distant at least ten thous conformity with the facts. Here are sooth, a burly, uncouth personage whose and miles." sotr e of Mr. \Vilson's observations. salvation lies in his brawn; for while he The argument of Mr. 'Wilson's book 'It is rare to ·find a Government in has been storing up physical energy, the migh t be summed up thus: Newfound :\'( wfoundland well together. There is rest of mankind has been wa ting it; and land is a country neglected and misun ah ays a great deal of inter-official jeal that sinew and energy. unless I am much derstood. The troubles of the country ow y, and not that sense of subordination mistaken, will stand him or his descend arc incrca~d by reasons of a •bad treaty to a master-mind which guarantees ants in a Yery good stead when New made with the French by the HQITJe trength to Cabinet . \Vhilc enlightened foundland's time comes. Take him all Go1·emment, and these troubles remain public opinion is daily warming the round- his faults, his failings, his super I>Cca usc England refuse to champion the hearts and minds of 200,000,000 of people, stitions and his personal uncleaniness and rights of her own people chiefly because the daily papers of St. John's are busy untidines - and the fisherman is some >he docs not want to offend bhe Frenoh. calling each other 'thieves' and 'liars,' thing more than the equal of most of the Tn :\fcwfoundland one finds much that is 'hood lers' and 'sharks', and it is over this .-\nglo-Ccltic offshoots. He is the superior good . T he country ha fine natural re feeble flicker of recrimination that the of most. He is splendid physical raw ma source,_ The outport people are mo t inhabitants are expected LO warm them- terial - a great tall strapping fellow - a Il' fi ~hen nen , the majority oE whom arc elves. pure blend, if ever there was one, of unlettered and simple folk. They are in My belief is that :\'ewfoundland should the English, Irish and Scotch races. He bondage to a bad commercial system; be regarded as outside the circle of or is not intellectual, but there i good arc poorl y served by their government dinary g01·ernorship . It importance is stuff in him -the verr stuff England and bound, most of them, by heer greater than its population implies; and can ill afford to dispense with. necc sit1·, to the barren rook upon whioh the need of a first-rate man larger than At the Stone Quarries we partook of fate has placed them. . evertlheless they the inducements offered him. to rule the a repast with the workmen. The ex possess excellent qualities. The Home colony. At one time it entreated the head perience was one to be remembered as Go1·ernment should take steps to relieve of the Colonial Office to allow the island long as stomach last . . . I will not de the distress of , ewfoundland and assist to be governed by one of its ow11 public scribe what we ate, although 1 shall carry ~ f.FoR VALv.:J I M PORTERS OF Dry Goods, Men's, Women's & Children's Wearing Apparel, Footwear, Household Goods, Infants' Wear, Notions, Etc. SO GOOD YOU WILL WANT -- A SECOND CUP T WO STORES 2 16-220 Duckworth Street - Dial 83257 FRANK McNAMARA 109 · 111 (Top) Long's Hill - Dial 84342 QUEEN ST. ST. JOHN'S 32 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY a recollection of each item with me to (Sgd.) Reuben Wall." o that I have none to spare for hobbies my grave. It was the tea. and the tea St. J ohn's, barring a few Scotch and But now and again there comes a period alone, which transfixed me. wi~h horror, Asiatic communities - is the most re when business is not so pressing, on and then with an irresistible fascination. ligl ious town on earth. There is more such occasions, when I have a leisure Tea in Newfoundland is boiled. ·when religion here to the square inch than hour, one of my chief delight~ is 10 it has boiled it is taken out and reboil any place I have ever visited. explore among m y collections of books ed . At the seventh steeping the tea has The (Roman Catholic) Cathedral alone of :-.!ewfoundland and Labrador. taken on those qualities for which tea of the chief churches escaped the great At present I am enjoying a little lei. .is (in Newfoundland) esteemed. The fire of 1892, "D'ye ken for why?" inquired sure brought about by the unusual wea• Quarries' tea is o ften kept boiling seven the cabman of extra-ordinary appearance, ther that we are having-unusual for this months. That is to say, what has been put and of still more extraordinary dialect time of year. It is Februar~. but there into the caulron in April is still sizzl ing who dTove me to my hotel. 'Twas ilie is no t a speck of snow to be een, and merrily. -in October. stones were 'a fetched from Ireland sor.' very little ice. Yesterday seemed like a ln· the winter there is deer-shooting The fishermen is to the stranger the clay taken from the middle of April, and for the few, but the majority of the men personification Q£ hospitality ... I heard last night the air was almost balmy. Rain do little besides mend their nets and of a Yankee comedian who came to and the sudden break up have left the fishing-tackle, smoke, ch·ink, spin yarns, Newfoundland during the shooting eason, roads in bad condition, hence the leisure, and wait for the March sealing season to being much struck by the extraordinaTy and hence this fruit of another explora. commence. The women do most of the and picwresquely patched trousers his tion among my books. The book that work. I have seen Lhem chopping wood host wore. "I hall have a pair like that," I have been exploring this time is Ped and digging with a spade, while their lords, he exclaimed jocosely, and jotted down ley's history of Newfoundland, entitled, pipe in moutJ1, looked approvingly on, a few notes as to thei1 appearance. " ' hen "The History of Newfoundland from the slowly recovering from •rhe more or less he and his C{)l npanion had finished their Earliest Times to the Year JRfiO.'' arduous labours of two months previous meal and were turning to go, their host Pedley was a clergyman. I ha' c not ly. ess, in her lord's absence, pressed a been able to find any information con Newfoundland is maligned as to fogs, parcel upon them which they accepted, cerning him except that he came - evi· On the whole, I think we ma} regard the thinking i r was fish ... On open ing the dently from England - to Newfoundland fog bogey as played out. H e has had hi~ parcel they found it contained the ec somewhere about 1860, to minister to the day - and a long day it has been . Let centri c trousers. The two strangers ran Congregational Church in St. John's. His us be charitable; let U> place him on the back and took the fisherman completely hi tory was published at London in 1863, shelf. by surprise. He was mending his nets, in He states in his preface that the history In an English provincial town o ne oc his wife's skirt. It was a chilly day. owes its origin to the natural desire he tasionally encounters a great deal of gossip He had been wearing those trousers for felt to know something of the people of scandal, of pretty slander. It is worse in a period of s:·, enteen years. and was among whom he had come to reside. the colonies; but in Sl. John's, I am naturall y much hurt at the inabili ty of 'Inquiries." he says. "for information grieved to say, this spirit achie,·es a his gu ::~ts to accept the gift." about Newfoundland both in England triumph. On the Jay following my ar 'Vc do not know how this book was and St. John's showed me that published rival, the Daily News contained the fol recei\ e.d in :\'ewfoundland when it ap materials relating to the growth and lowing ad,·ertisement i:. a prominent peared fony years ago. but we can im character of the colony were \'cry scanty place: ··,\s a large number of people in agine that p oor •·neglected and misunder indeed." Ha"ing discovered, from con this city are given to gossip concerning stood Cinderella crouching in her corner" versation with the governor, that there my actions and personal affairs I hereby would fervently pray for a knight to was available a large collection o f official give notice that on and after this date defend her against her champions. records that would make good material I intend lying on my right 'ide imtead There arc parts of the ~ear during for a history of the country he decided of on left as heretofore. which m y business demands all nw time to undenake the ta k of writing one. His book contains over five hundred pages of large clear type. It has no SEE US FOR YOUR illustrations, but carries a large map of ilie oountry in a pocket on the front CROCKERY and GLASSWARE cover. There arc sixteen chapters. and all, except the last, which outlines the REQUIREMENTS ecclesia tical history of the country, deal with periods rather than particular phases of the history. The style of the work is CUPS and SAUCERS - TEA SETS plea ing, and to me, it was a pleasure to find that the narrative is not broken DINNER SETS by long quotations from original docu ments. Also I was glad to find the nar rative with much interes~ing detail. WATER SETS- BERRY SETS I was very much interested, for in tance, in the tory of Virginia Lake, and Vir ginia Cottage. ;\!any times I have seen S . 0 . STEELE & SONS the S. S. Yirginia Lake come into our harbour in :\'o tre Dame Bay on her regu· LI M ITE D far trips to the north, and often I have wondered where she got her name. It DIAL 8 -6392 WATER STREET EAST 'eemed to me that probably I had found (Continued on Page 40) THE NE~OUNDLAND QUARTERLY 33 FA VOVBITES.. OLD AND NEJV Heart's Content By A. R. BRAZILL By D. L. Durrant There·~ a lovely ~pot in Newfoundland Accessible by a htghroad, I see smooth pebbles on a briny beach, 1 th ink tha~ I s~all pitch my t.ent And slip one in my mouth the salt to taste. In thi quamt vtllage of Hearts Content. A huge red boulder basking in the sun I climb upon to rest and gaze abroad. You can throw all your troubles and cares away As yon mell the aroma of new-mown hay The lapping of the waves keeps me relaxed; 1 once made the trip a~d ' ti~ ~rue what I say I sit ad muse while seagulls ride and dip, Of this beautiful hamlet 111 Tnmty Bay. Then rise on wings in wanton ecstasy: Would I could feel as free and f;:olicsome. sweet calm and serenity owns it sway You live m01nent by moment and ?ay by day A rippling brook meanders to the sea: And nothing abnoxious will come m your way A wandering minstrel from the inland hills, In my new found haven my spot in the bay. Whose music trills and purls enchantingly In subdued tones, soothing to homesick souls. There's fishina and hunting and sports in galore, The lovely Mi~zen pond is behind your back door. A schooner with white sails comes round the point, You may fish in a ri~er that'~ not far away. As graceful as a gull she heads her way. In this little haven, JUSt up m the bay. The happy youngsters run towards the pier To wekome her return with shouts of joy. Wi th a boat in this pond, and the wind blowing free, What el e do you want, my friend . can't you see The crowd disperses and 1 wander o'e11 With nothing to molest, and your mmd set at ease To watch the lobsters swimming in their pound. To sail in the sun&hine, or do as you please. To-day in dark green armour they disport. To-morrow they will wear a scarlet shroud. o dust or dirt will pollute the pure air, All's tranquil and peaceful, no room f~r a care. Old Ocean beckons with enttcmg hand, To stay in this village will be your mtent The wavelets gambol all along the shore; You 'll see nature made it 'tis indeed Heart's Content. I cannot quenoh insatiable desire As deep emotion calleth unto Deep. Yes Heaven sure made it as its name doth imply And I'm ure you will love it as much as do I So now 'I shall tell you m y mind is all bent To live in that village my own Hearts Content. So good-bye to the city with your woes and your cares I'm leaving forever your ills and your fears 1 will li\·e in contentment as long as I may An d Thank God for my new home in Trinity Bay. An d wh en you are tired and fed up with the lot Then come out and see me in m y co zy spot + Just jump in your car, and be on your way An d come to my cabin 'tis ju t 'round the bay. F IRE INSURANCE Effect it w ith the old, reliable and prompt-paying Company DRINK AND ENJOY THE YORKSHIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, LTD . RAINBOW TEA LOSSES BY GAS, LIGHTNING AND FOREST FIRES NOT EXCEPTED. Ask for rates before insuring else where. All information gladly given. RYAN & CAU LE GEORGE NEAL, Ltd. Barristers, Solicitors and Notary Public AGENTS ST. 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HIGH STREET - GRANO FALLS Telephone 92186 - 92187 WESTERN OFFICE- TH J OHNSON INSURANCE BLDG . BLACKMARSH RD. ST. JOHN'S, NFLD. MAIN STREET - CORNER BROOK MAIN STREET - STEPHENVILLE the Most in Dry Cleaning NEWFOUNDLAND THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 35 WIIEN NFLD. HELPED SAVE CANADA (Cont. from page 10) And from Fort George Brock writes to -Prevost: Major Ormsby, who witnessed the transaction, direct they both grounded in such a situation that the British ed the batteries to open on them and soon compelle(j:i fo rt was firing on them. (Part 2 of Cruikshank; but the enemy to abandon the Detroit ... Then boarded taken from the Historical Register Vol. 2.) by a party of the 49th regiment ... threw the guns Captain Mahan in Scribners Magazine for April overboard ... and left her (Part 4 of Cruikshank.) · ' 1904, speaking of the Detroit says, "she had to anchor However, it is recorded that the enemy raised the under the fire of batteries at 400 yards range. The guns from the bottom to afterwards put them to their berth proving too hot, the cable was cut, sail again own use. (Letter from Brown's Point. Nov. 8-181 ~' ma de, and ... run ashore on Squaw Island within range and now in the S. P. Jarvis Collection, Toronto Public of both British and American guns. Here Elliott aban Library, reproduced in Part 4, Cruikshank.) doned her with rigging and sails cut to pieces ... she A small but important point, as Mahan speaks of, was boarded in turn by a body of the enemy." was brought out at the Court of Inquiry held at Fort Some points of special interest needs to be brought Erie on October 27th. The Detroit was loaded with out in this episode! Major-General Sir Isaac Brock in prisoners and voyageurs (Canadian boatmen}. The tended to board the Detroit from the Lady Prevost. latter trying to get out of danger by going down the Bu t the enemy boarded her and set her on fire. (Brock hatchway at the time the enemy was boarding pre to Governor Prevost, Oct. 1 1-1812, cited in Cruik vented other soldiers from getting up at once. sha nk). General Brock adds:- "Rolette who com The real inducement that led to the conflict was the ma nded the Detroit, had, and I believe deservedly the thought that the Calendonia had a cargo of valuable cha racter of a brave and attentive officer." furs. But the Buffalo Gazette of October 20th said: PREST-O-LITE BATTERIES NEED WATER ONLY 3 TIMES A YEAR GUARANTEE: UNION OIL CO. The battery with the 30-month guarantee or DIAL 82822 30,000 miles for private car use. Guaranteed for commercial vehicles, FURNACE and STOVE 01 LS 15,000 miles Distributor for Newfoundland FASTEST, MOST EFFICI·ENT OIL DELIVERY SERVICE IN ST. JOHN'S LEMARCHANT ROAD, ST. JOHN'S DIAL 85433 P. 0. BOX 448 24 HOURS SERVICE After Hours Call ... All the Best Music • LOUIS SMITH-Grove's Road. 930233 ON • RALPH BUTT-Sulva Street 869894 BECOBDS HEAR THEM -OFFICE- AT Junction FRESHWATER RD. and PENNYWELL RD. DICKS DIAL 82822 RECORD ROOM At the Sign of the Book Water Street St. John's 36 THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY WHEN NFLD. HELPED SAVE CANADA (Continued) "The cargo of the Calendonia, which has bee estimated at $150,000.00 is not now rated highe~ than $8 or $10,000.00. . The _nu~erous packs of LEMARCHANT DRUG STORE beaver, muskrat, etc., w1th wh1ch 1t was said that the Calendonia was laden, proved to be nothing more than deer, beaver and buffalo skins." Phone 91236 - 93908 The value placed by the enemy in capturing naval vessels was to maintain supremacy on the lakes, which supremacy, though not perhaps appreciated, fluctuat Opp. Grace Hospital ed from time to time. Referring to this Major-General Robinson says: "the importance of maintaining ascen dency on the water, if theoretically admitted, was not at heart, or thoroughly understood." Then Robinson Merchandisers of Quality adds: "The temporary ascendency of the British flotil las on the lakes (though their strength was but feeble) Cosmetics the points most in her (Canada's) favour were the spirit of her people." The loss of the Detroit and Calen • Dorothy Grey donia gave the enemy that temporary ascendency. Soon the great Brock, who seemed to be every where, was killed in the great victory at Queenstown • Yardley Heights, Oct. 13th when nearly a thousand prisoners were taken. Between disaster and victory a truce was • Revlon agreed on between Major-Generals Sheaffe and Van Rensselaer, for three days. Meanwhile a "Court of Inquiry" by order of Major • General Shaw, commanding at Fort Erie to make an investigation into the conduct of Lieut-Rolette ...re specting the loss of the . .. Detroit, was called on October 27th. The testimony of Rolette in brief is:- At 7 P.M .... the watch was set, consisting of six men with arms ... at three o'clock A.M. one of the watch came down into the cabin and said that he saw a boat going on board the Calendonia ... on my The Lawrence coming up on deck with Ensign Kerr of the Newfound land Fencibles, I perceived the Detroit adrift and a boat alongside .. . also another boat with two officers and Newfoundland thirty soldiers of the U. S. Army. Being asked to surrender, I refused, on which the soldiers immediately commenced a fire of musketry . Co., Ltd. . . . I resisted and defended the vessel with nine men and Ensign Kerr wounded . .. the remainder being WHOLESALE PAPER DEALERS SINCE 1898 knocked down the hatchway, the enemy got posses sion of the vessel." 01 RECT IMPORTERS Witness Will iam Wodlands, Sergeant, of the Royal Newfoundland Fencibles being called into court, states and MANUFACTURERS' AGENTS that about three o'clock .. . he heard an alarm on the deck of the Detroit, at which time all hands were called • Wrapping Paper • Twines and Bags to quarters . .. the evidence was struck by a cutlass . . . and thrown down the hatchway. • Cellophane Wrappers and Bags Witness Louis Fervet, private soldier of the Royal • Paper Cups and Plates o Egg Cartons and Newfoundland Fencibles, beinQ called into court, states Trays • Stationery and School Supplies that .. . he heard all hands cailed on deck, and on his • Paper Cutters • Counter Check Books going to the arms chest he was seized by some man . .. and knocked down the hatchway. He further • Calendars, Etc . states that . . . he saw Lieut. Rolette and Ensign Kerr NEW LOCATION : 209-211 DUCKWORTH ST. engaged with the enemy ... it being dark he could not state their numbers. P. 0. BOX E-5044 Wtiness Jonathan Boden, private soldier of the Royal St. John's, Newfoundland Dial 86288 or 87636 Newfoundland Fencibles, being called into court states that he was sentry on the larboard side of the quarters deck .. . that he perceived 30mething at a THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUARTERLY 37 distance . .. the sentry at the head of he vessel called "Boat Ahoy"- he endeavoured to get a gun to bear upon it, but . .. being close to the larboard side the gun cou ld not be brought to bear upon it .. . LEDREWS Lieut-Rolette and Ensign Kerr, engaged with the enemy". These are brief extracts from a long testimony in the Court of Inquiry. But as Major EXPRESS LTD. General Robinson says that "Fort Erie" was a work of some strength efforts were at once made to hold on to what they then had. REMOVAL NOTICE Sir George Prevost wrote Earl Bathurst in London, on oct. 17th, 1812 from Montreal that: NOW LOCATED ON "I have now to state the difficulties which attend providing them with proper officers and suitable crews. For the present I have allotted the New TORBAY ROAD foundland Fencibles for that service." (Part 4 of Cruikshank). Dial 96085- 90522 On November 11th there was at Fort Erie, Com ma nded by Major-Ormsby a total of 126 of the New YOUR ALLIED VAN LINES AGENT fou ndland Regiment (Canadian Archives. Freer Papers. Part 4 of Cruikshank). LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE A nd immediately after this reverse we read, Oct. 9th. MOVING A SPECIALTY "The flank companies of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment will march ... for Fort Erie, and on their • MOVING • STORING • PACKING arrival there they will receive further orders from M ajor-General Shaw." P. 0. BOX 5520 (P art 2 of Cruikshank) on Oct. 29th 1812 we read: The light company of the Newfoundland Regiment will hold itself in immediate readiness to march for Fort Erie. These men belonging to the Newfoundland Reg iment and lately returned from being prisoners of war will be equipped with arms and be furnished with clothing, so as to be able to march with the light com pan y of the regiment." On Oct. 31st we read: The light company of the Newfoundland Regiment, under the command /( OXFORDf of Captain Whalen, will march tomorrow for Fort Erie." (District General order in Cruikshank). in 5 fiHings (To be continued) for every width BIBLIOGRAPHY Lieut. Col. E. A. Cruikshank "a documentary History of of foot War on the Niagara Frontier 1812-1814." Printed For perfect comfort your shoes must fit you perfect· for the Lundy's Historical Society at Tribune Office, •ly. These fine K Oxfords Weiland, Ont. 9 Vols., 1896-1908. are avaJ.lable here in five widt:hs to each half size James Hannay The War of 1812, Toronto 1905. -from very slim to extra "Historical Register of the U. S." Edited by T. H. Palmer, wide. That is why we Washing, 1814-1816. can give you a fitting service second to none. Cha rles P. Lucas The Canadian War of 1812, Oxford 1906. Captain A. T. Mahan, D.C.L., LL.D. "Sea Power in its relation to the War of 1812, Boston 1905. Ca ptain A. T. Mahan. The War of 1812. Scribners Magazine, Serial Jan. to June 1904. Ma jor-General C. W. Robinson C. B. Canada & Canadian Defence with reference to war of 1812. Toronto 1910. Parker & Monroe Ltd. Frederic Brock Tupper: Editor of the Life and Corres THE SHOE MEN pon dence of Major-General Sir Isaac Brock, K. B. 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PRATT "MOST BELOVED POET" N Monday, February 19, 1962, D r.• E. wherever he ha 1nade his way, there have all virtues, and no wonder! for it is bhe J. Pratt was one of ten 'Canadians who been as the companions of his pilgrimage deep unspoken certainty of his native receiOved medals from the Canada Council the three most wistful of the graces of land that throughout its history it has for outstanding work in the arts, human mankind, the gr.ace of pity, t'he grace of never feared to give life in order to save ities and social sciences. The following beauty and that saving grace of humour life. He has written of the enduring and "citation", summing up D r. Pratt's career "which turns the tears of Life into a endearing things. From him have come and work w.as delivered by the distin Rainbow." lyrics of haunting beauty, stately and uuished Canadian, Leonard W. Brocking Admired and praised by all who read solemn epics of brave voyages and rescues ~on, C.M.G., Q .C., I.L.D., D.C.L. him, he is beloved by au· who know him. of the pilgrimages of faithful and hum Mr. President: With him, the eternal objects of poetry ble men of heant, sagas of shipwrecks, It is my honor in this citation to name are human actions which touch the poet's nhe mysteries of the monsters of nhe a brilliant and sensiti,ve scholar, a dedi innermost soul-the music of its enchant deep. cated teacher who has inspired many ment, the notation of the human heart. He has written rollicking lig'ht verse thousands of Canadian students, and a He has seen the magic in everything with themes running from the fur-flying true poet of genius, Dr. E . J. Pratt. around him and has f INDIA BEER Brewed from the choicest of imported and Canadian Materials. The trend is definitely to ~~INDIA~~ (Not Inserted by the Board of Liquor Control) 40 THE NEWTOUNDLAND QUARTERLY THE CROW'S NEST (Continued) 1s:ccond and rhird Anglo French Duels." .boast several histories. There are Works Pedley, on the other hand, as we have of Bonnycastle, Reeves, Pedley, Hatton the explanation when I read in Pedley's ,said, features the internal conflicts of .and Harvey and Prowse, besides less COIJl. history that Sir Thomas Cochrane, while ,classes and factions. ,prehensive works uch as those by Roct. Governor of :\fewfoundlan.cl, built for You will recall what was said about the gers, Birkenhead, Tocque, and McGrath. himself a pretty cottage on a peninsula ,p eculiar impression left on the mind of ,Nevertheless, it seems to me that there in a lake about three miles from St. the reader being due, among other things, is room for one more - a history simi John's, and the lake and cottage were .to the nature of the source from which lar to the historical works of Green and known as Virginia Lake and Virginia the writer drew his material. This seems .Macaulay. And, what material there is Cottage. Pedley says that "all this was to be strongly supported by comparison in the records of :\fewfoundland History done out of the private resources of the of the two works here mentioned, namely .for such a work! proprietor. Consequently, when his term .those by Rodgers and Pedley. Rogers, a Our histories are valuable reference of office expired the property was sold; barrister in England, drew his materials works, but for the most part they are but still Virginia Lake and Virginia Cot too much of the nature of compilations tage remain among the most attractive or collections of essays on various aspects spots shown to the stranger visiting St. of Newfoundland's story. Newfoundland John's." Columbus' Return ~vaits the coming of some writer possess I suppose that If a hundred histories of ...... ing the gifts and graces of the historian any country were written each would LEON SCOTT PARSONS .who will teep himself in a ll the records leave on the mind of the reader some On through the shades and the of the years, and then spin from these peculiar impression due to the character foam ~veil-digested materials a finely-wo\~n of the author, the bias of his mind, The lonely ship comes ailing web of narrative s·uch as delights us in home. and the sources of his material. \Vhen I ,the works of the writers I have already ha.cl fini hed Pedley's history the out Out of the gloom and ~ scure night, named. But while we wait the coming standing impression that remained with An eagle home from fulfilled of this " ewfoundland Herodotus we can me was a feeling that I had witnessed a flight, ~ontinue to read with pleasure and profit thrilling drama - a conflict of human An ancient glory on her prow the histories that we have, and I heartily passions in a place where self-interest was Fulfillment of an ancient vow And shining glory in her wake recommend, as one of the best of these, supreme ere yet unity in a common enter In answer to a voice that spake "The History of Newfoundland from the prise and interest in the common good In doubt-filled clays that now are f!arliest times to 1860" by Rev. Charles had established community life on nobler passed, Pedley. and firmer principles, or developed the "Why sail you to your death at finer qualities of human nature. last? ~' (To be continued) That voice is stilled, no more it For many years Newfoundland was look speaks ed upon as a place where men went to In challenge to the dauntless peaks fish and trade during the summer months, Of human hope and burning light Of quest that far excells llhe might and strict orders were given that every Of nations great and small. No shipmaster was to bring back to England more BOOBS WANTED all the men taken out in the spring. Their boasts shall be, !Qr from that Settlement was discouraged, and conse shore Across the seas of boiling wrath Back Issues of the quently there were no encouragement An answer comes, "The goal he of community life. Only a little more sought NEWFOUNDLAND than a hundred years ago English \.Yest Is won; the tales we oft have countrymen who stubbornly resisted set spurned QUARTERLY Are true; Columbus has returned! tlement in the country solemnly proposed that no woman should be allowed to Anyone having any or all land in • ewfoundland, and "that means largely from the official documents in the hould be adopted to remove those that .British museum, while Pedley ma.cle much of the issues of The "New were there." Early hi tory of Newfound use of an extensive collection of records foundland Quarterly" dated land shows to a marked degree the in placed at his disposal by the governor of fluence of thi policy upon the life and ewfoundland - records of local happen from July, 1901, Vol. 1, No. 1 conduct of the people, and demonstrates ings kept by the governors of former to Dec. 1905, Vo l. 4, No. 3 is what confusion and strife will result .years. There, of course, would contain where human instincts are not con trolled accounts of all complaints and disputes, asked to communicate with by a community consciousness, a back ,uprisings and trials that had ever come the Ed itor. We would also be ground of community life, and an interest before the governors for ~heir considera in the common good. This aspect of the ,tion and disposal. interested in any issues up to hi tory of :\fewfoundland is prominently '\Ve would say, however, that there is featured in Pedley's book. Newfound nothing in Pedley's book that will offend 1949. Write: land has been the scene of conflicts of ,the most loyal and patriotic Newfound \anou · kinds. There have been the )ander. He treated the records with sym internal conflicts of human passions as !Pathic understanding. As he was, evi THE NEWFOUNDLAND we have seen, and there have been con ,dently, broadminded and without preju QUARTERLY flicts between warring nations contend dice or bigotry, he wrote justly and fairly ing for possession of the country. Some .of all classes and creeds. P. 0. Box E-5419 works feature this second conflict. Rod On one occasion, Sir Alexander .Banner St. John's gers, for instance, gives three chapters man, while governor of 1ewfoundland out of ten to what he calls the "First, expressed that regret. Newfoundland can Be sure to visit Simpsons-Sears Retail Store AT 369 WATER STREET, ST. JOHN'S ---IT'S AT SIMPSONS-SEARS PLEASE CLIP AND USE THESE NEW SIMPSON-SEARS TELEPHONE NOS. 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