Late in the 1820s the government of Nova Scotia tried to get people involved in fishing by offering bounties (financial incentives) based on the amount of fish caught. At Canada’s Confederation in 1867, the federal government was given authority over...
Fred was one of the last shipbuilders left in Freeport. He also had a forge across in front of his house. I have wrote about this person in shipbuilding. I first meet Fred in the mid sixty's when I lived next door to him. I remember he had a canoe tied to a stand in...
Freeport Ship Building 1800-1985 By Rodney Stark Foreword The purpose of this book is to tell the story of Ship Builders of Freeport in...