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Traditional Rural Life of the Gaspesie
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Camp Adams (Nepisiguit, Gloucester) | Forestry Fridays: Historic Views of Lumber Mills & Logging Scenes in Eastern Canada
The inscription on this vintage postcard reads
“View from Camp Adams on Nepisiguit River, Bathurst, N.B.”
(Note logs floating in the river)
I learned from an article at The Miramichi Salmon Association that:
“Camp Adams has been in existence for more than a century. In the early days, anglers from as near as Newcastle and as far as Boston and New York came to this stretch of the Northwest Miramichi, some 20 miles from the hamlet of Wayerton. Today (sic 2000) the waters are still fished by anglers from both sides of the border as members or guests of of the Miramichi Fish and Game Club.” George Mumford
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Vintage Postcards of New Brunswick
Further Reading:
Forest life in Acadie at Google Books
Caraquet in Vintage Postcards(4): Celebrating CMA2009
This is the fourth vintage postcard in a series I’m publishing to celebrate the 2009 Acadian Congress taking place this August in New Brunswick.
L’Industrie de Peche, Caraquet, N.B.
“Draggers” in Port
For more historic pictures of the Caraquet area please see
Vintage Postcards of New Brunswick
They Worked Hard For The Family: Gaspesian Fishermen
When most people think of Quebec’s ethnic make-up, they think first of French-speaking, Catholic Quebeckers – and theycertainly makes up the overwhelming majority of early settlers. However, Quebec also had settlers of British origin (English, Scottish and Irish), and among these there was a substantial group of Anglo-Normans from the Channel Islands. These Channel Islanders settled on the Quebec and New Brunswick coasts of the Baie des Chaleurs (Chaleurs Bay) and they were there to get something that the Europeans of the time desperately wanted – codfish!
One of these Channel Islanders was my ancestor - Philippe Luce of Jersey – and as I don’t have any photographs of him I’ve decided to share this vintage postcard of fishermen on the beach splitting codfish near the now famous tourist destination of Perce Rock.
Splitting Codfish, Perce, Quebec
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Index: Vintage Postcards of Quebec
Vintage Postcards: Codfish at Shippigan (Shippagan/Shippegan)
Postcardy’s theme for her May Scavenger Hunt is FISH ,
so I thought I would use the opportunity to share another vintage black and white postcard of Shippagan, New Brunswick. Quite a contrast to Lynne’s glossy fish cards, don’t you think !
L’Industrie de Peche – Codfish at Shippigan, N.B.
Vintage Postcard: Caraquet, L’Industrie de la Peche, N.B.
Draggers in Port – Caraquet, New Brunswick
Caraquet’s position on Chaleurs Bay was ideal for Early Acadian Pioneers and it also attracted many fishermen from the Channel Islands. One shore of Chaleurs Bay is in Quebec and the other in New Brunswick and it has long been known as a rich fishing area.
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Vintage Postcard: Caraquet, N.B. Marines
Caraquet is not just a farming community. it sits on the Baie des Chaleurs – a magnificent fishing region, – so early Acadian settlers could harvest both the land and the sea.
A Canadian Family Vintage Postcard Collection
Detail: Men working on a beach – I believe with a winch to bring a boat up onto the beach.
Detail: A Fishing Boat
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Vintage Postcard: Fishing Fleet, Gaspe Coast, Que.
Transcript:
8-18-38 – Gaspe
Dear Pauline,
Today has been beautiful although yesterday was quite rainy. The Apalasions Mountains in the background of this picture are the same and similar to those in Pa. The coastiline and typical natives with their fishing and lumbering industries are very interesting. I am getting some good lesson in French also. Hope you are enjoying J.P.J. and the suspense (?) sincerely Ed.B
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