NICHOLSVILLE BRIDGE.

Built 1940. A Deer Lake landmark currently slated for replacement, though it would be a great shame if it is demolished rather than restored. This and the following eight photos were taken sixty years ago. August 1947, while en route ,via Deer Lake, Sandy Lake and the Hampden woods road , to Jackson's Arm

DEER LAKE POWER PLANT , 1947

No parking lot, no automobiles, no roads, otherwise the exterior view has not changed much with the years. Built in 1925 to provide power for the Newfoundland Power & Paper C. Ltd. (N.P.&P) mill in Corner Brook.

POWER PLANT.

Rear view showing gates where water from the penstocks is released into Deer Lake. The walkway is a great place from which to view salmon heading upstream.

CONTROL ROOM, DEER LAKE POWER PLANT.

1940's technology. Note the telephone on the back wall.

TURBINES, DEER LAKE POWER PLANT, 1947

Time exposure taken with an old Brownie box camera.

TURBINES.

Closeup view.

DEER LAKE BEACH.

Photo taken 1947, long before this became a popular recreation place. Note the escaped pulpwood on the shore.

DEER LAKE.

View of beach with power plant in background.

DEER LAKE BEACH.

View of road used by vehicles unloading pulpwood into Deer Lake from where it would be driven down the Humber to the mill in Corner Brook

CHILDREN ON LANCE COVE WHARF, C.1955

Copying pans was always great fun whenever the ice was in.

HAMPDEN, 1947

Pulpwood delivered via Sandy Lake was dumped in the bottom of White Bay from where it was towed by boom around the Great Northeren Peninsula to Corner Brook. As much as 1500 cords were taken in one tow. The coastline was littered with escaped wood. I believe barges were subsequently used.

UNLOADING PULPWOOD, HAMPDEN, 1947

Wood for Bowater's mill, Corner Brook, was towed in boom across Sandy Lake and then trucked from there to Hampden. I hitched a ride in this truck while en route to Jackson's Arm

FISHING SCHOONER.

Met crossing Bonavista Bay, 1952. Typical of the way sails were modified for schooners with auxiliary power. The drastically reduced mainsail was called a rider, or riding sail.

SEINING CAPELIN.

Eastport, 1964

EASTPORT BEACH, 1964

Capelin was once the main source of fertilizer for gardening throughout Newfoundland.

LITTLE BOATS.

Brigus South.

FISHING BOAT.

Brigus Sauth.

PAULINE C. WINTERS and NINA W. CORKUM

Shown here tied up at a wharf in Grand Bank. Those bankers were much better known in their latter years as "coasters". The names will ring a familiar chord in the memory of older Newfoundlanders who resided along the NE coast.

BANKING SCHOONERS.

Seen here anchored at Port aux Basques c.1953

THEY'LL BE BACK.

One thing I noticed on my photo jaunts this summer was the almost total absence of bird song, except for the cacophony of the raucous crows and squawking gulls. Saw less than half dozen robins: one nesting pair and a couple of individuals. How many can remember when summers were charmed by the unending melody of those delightful creatures.

CRYSTAL CLEAR.

HAPPY ADVENTURE.

Wintertime, c.1964

MOTORBOATS AND PUNT.

Burnside, c. 1963

NEWFOUNDLAND PONIES.

Rescued from the meat packers at the brink of extinction. When I photographed this pair, Lamaline, 1955, hundreds of them could be seen running free along the roadside all over the Burin peninsula.

A FONDNESS FOR GREEN.

A few more photos of lovely Rose Blanche, taken in the early 70s.