Main-à-Dieu Fishermen's Museum
Main-à-Dieu, Nova Scotia
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The Boats of Main-à-Dieu & Area
Location: Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia

 
Transporting boat from home to wharf on "Launching day"
1 of 28 		"Rolling" a boat down to the water for "Launching day"
2 of 28 		"Blessing of the fleet"
3 of 28 		Main-à-Dieu cemetery
4 of 28 		"Blessing of the fleet"
5 of 28 		"Setting-out day": first day of the lobster-fishing season
6 of 28
Plastic-foam buouys and nylon hauling rope
7 of 28 		Concrete weights for wire lobster traps
8 of 28 		Navigational systems pick up satellite information using antennae
9 of 28 		The technological revolution: today's boats are virtually unrecognizable to yesterday's fishermen
10 of 28 		Computer equipment in the house of a fishing boat
11 of 28 		An arsenal of technology
12 of 28
Bringing in lobster traps
13 of 28 		Seals in Main-à-Dieu harbour
14 of 28 		Crab catch
15 of 28 		L to R: visiting Sister; Sister Hugh Marie; Dan McDougall with swordfish catch
16 of 28 		Dan McDougall standing on the spar of a swordfishing boat
17 of 28 		Swordfish striker
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