The Department of Tourism, Culture and Recreation is a division of the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador
Earle Sons & Co. Ltd. was a major mercantile firm in the Notre Dame Bay region during the period 1917-67. The company engaged in the purchase, production and export of salt codfish, cod oil, salmon, lobster, seals and other staple products, and in importing food, provisions and fishing equipment for retail.
The Earle family business was established by Henry J. Earle (1841-1934) who originally came to Fogo as a bookkeeper for Slade & Co. When the Slade Co. was dissolved in 1869, Earle formed a partnership with John W. Owen, a former clerk of Slade's, as Owen & Earle, and took over the Slade premises at Fogo and Twillingate. Around 1893, the company was dissolved with Owen carrying on trade at Twillingate and Earle at Fogo. By the end of the century, Earle also had branches in Twillingate, Herring Neck, and Change Islands.
With his sons, Henry Earle continued the business under his own name until 1917, when it was incorporated as Earle Sons and Company, Limited. His son Harold then took over the management of the business and expanded the operation to include canning and freezing fish. The Change Islands branch, which operated a lobster cannery until 1900, was phased out in the 1950s. The Twillingate premises were sold to a competitor, Ashbourne Fisheries Limited, in 1918.
Earle then rented premises from Colbourne's and continued to operate there until 1928. At that time, Harold Earle purchased a business from Rolls (his wife's relatives) in Barr'd Islands and land in Joe Batt's Arm and Tilting. The company operated cod oil factories in Joe Batt's Arm, Barr'd Islands, and Tilting until the 1950s. Premises at Wigwam Point (Fogo) were acquired from the Newfoundland and Labrador Export Company in the 1950s.
Final operations ceased at Fogo in 1967. The collapse of the Labrador fishery and the depletion of fish stocks in Notre Dame Bay brought an end to the Earle business after 74 years.
The Fishermen's Union Trading Co. Ltd. (FUTC) was established in Newfoundland in 1911 by W. F. Coaker as the trading arm of the Fishermen's Protective Union (FPU), organized in 1908. A limited liability company, it was intended as a cooperative venture for its union member shareholders. One of its first projects was to establish a series of cash stores for its members. The Union cash stores were intended to make fishermen independent of the local merchants and the credit (truck) system) by providing families with low prices for consumer goods and payment for fish in cash.
Within two years the FUTC had 31 stores in outport communities. In 1913 the FUTC opened 13 new stores, including Greenspond. The Greenspond store was purchased from James Ryan of Bonavista who had a fishery supply and general store at the site (ca. 1895-1913). Although some of the smaller stores were closed in 1914, Greenspond remained open due to its large customer base. The company's fortunes improved following the war.
Coaker's popularity, and that of the Union generally, diminished in the 1920s and 1930s. Coaker resigned the presidency of the FPU in 1923 but continued to head the FUTC. The FUTC abandoned its cash-only policy and adopted a credit system, which it had so vehemently opposed in its earlier years. The FPU was finally dissolved in the late 1950s. The FUTC went into receivership in 1977, and the remaining stores, including the Greenspond operation, were sold. Having operated continuously for 64 years, the FUTC store was one of the longest running businesses in Greenspond's history.
The Flower's Cove Parish is a parish of the Anglican Church of Canada in the Diocese of Western Newfoundland. From 198?-1995, it included what is now the Green Island Parish. From 196?-198?, it included what is now the Plum Point Parish.
Churches include:
St. Matthew (Anchor Point)
St. Barnabas (Flower's Cove)
St. Boniface (Bear Cove)
St. Mark (Savage Cove)
St. Andrew (Eddie's Cove East)
St. Andrew (Green Island)
St. Andrew (Green Island Brook)
St. Andrew (Pines Cove)
St. Thomas (Sandy Cove)
St. Mary's (Black Duck Cove)
Church of the Advent (Plum Point)
St. Margaret (Reef's Harbour)
St. Paul (Main Brook)
Churches in: St. Barbe, Blue Cove, Brig Bay, Shoal Cove, Englee, and Roddickton.
A german weather station was secretly established at MArtin Bay, 32 k south of Cape Chidley, Labrador in the Fall of 1943. The consturcted station was transported across the Atlantic ocean in a submarine, U-537, commanded by Lieutenant Commander Peter Schrew. The German station was labelled 'Candian Weather Service' in an attempt to disguise itand consisted of a 150 watt transmitter an antenna a weather vane and an anemometer for mesuring wind volicity . The stations automatically issued a coded weather report for every two minuted every three hours and functioned for about three months , after which time batteries ran down due to the harsh winter weather
: The Girl Guide movement was originally founded in England in 1916 by Lady Baden-Powell, wife of the founder of the Scout movement, Lord Robert Baden-Powell. In Newfoundland, Girl Guides was officially started in 1923 and had strong connections to the Guiding movement in Great Britain until 1949 when the Girl Guides joined the Canadian Guiding movement, following Confederation. The Province was then divided into ten Guiding areas. In 1964 a Provincial headquarters was established in St. John's, housing the Provincial Office, the Archives, a Guide shop, and a meeting room. By 1982, the movement owned nine campsites within the Province located near Manuels, Pippy Park, Labrador City, Placentia, Heart's Content, Trinity, Marystown, Corner Brook, and Rattling Brook. Eventually Girl Guides was designed to aid young women to grow into responsible citizens; the training programs were geared to generate self-motivating skills and to teach specific skills needed as adults. A girl could begin Guiding as a BROWNIE (age 7), then the girl progressed to GUIDES (age 9-12), then to PATHFINDERS (age 12-15), then RANGERS (age 16-17), and CADETS (age 18+). Ideally, at this final Guiding level, the girl was a mature and responsible woman and could move into society as an independent adult.