Justfolk

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Posted: 26 Aug 2014


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Family obsession

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Here are my sister and her son. We were all taking pictures.

This harbour was officially (and locally) known as Fox Harbour, but a
hundred years ago the Newfoundland Post Office got fed up with so many
coves named Fox Harbour (and Long Pond, Caplin Cove, Freshwater, etc.)
that they asked most of them to change their names. Being the harbour
right at the entrance to, and on the south side of, Southwest Arm of
Trinity Bay, the people of this Fox Harbour chose the rather
unlocal-sounding name Southport. Unlocal was what the Post Office
wanted -- so that it would be different from all the other
communities.

A hundred years later it is still Southport, though the name Fox
Harbour was kept in the name of the island just at the left: Fox
Harbour Island, or just Fox Island. No one lived there so the Post
Office didn't care. Just before I took this picture, my sister
pointed out that our ancestors had settled on another Fox Island in
Trinity Bay, but about forty km northeast of this spot. That was in
the 17th century.

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 Justfolk
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