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Two company boats on the tow1950
Most likely Mollyguajeck Lake on the Terra Nova River, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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If you look carefully, you can see the boom of pulpwood tied to the boats. The big anchor hanging down from the stemhead of the winchboat was used for winching the boom when lake conditions dictated this means of towing. For winching, the winchboat would run half a mile or more from the boom, drop that big anchor, and return to the boom, stringing out cable all the way. Back at the boom the winchboat would be tied by rope to the boom and begin winching. Once the big anchor "got good bottom," the boom had what the drivers called, "two choices - come or bust."16
Ben Burton in a riverboat1954
Mollyguajeck Lake, Terra Nova River Valley, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Ben Burton trouting1954
Mollyguajeck Lake, Terra Nova River Valley, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Ben Burton is holding a trouting rod made by Edmund Ralph from a dry slender spruce tree. Trouting was a delightful pastime at Mollyguajeck and, for a young ardent angler like Ben, the ideal fishing spot. Ben still remembers the four-pounder he caught at Mollyguajeck. The drivers said it was the biggest trout they'd ever seen taken from these waters located about thirty-miles inland from Alexander Bay.19
Chesley Burton1954
Mollyguajeck Lake, Terra Nova River Valley, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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The men appreciated tremendously those days when they were near enough to the campsite to be served a hot meal on the job. On some occasions the cook received an urgent message for the skipper who was way up the pond in a towboat. The cook used his sail to indicate to the skipper that is was necessary to come to camp for a message.21
Skipper Basil Sparkes aboard the 'Badger Boat'1940
Mollyguajeck Lake, Terra Nova River Valley, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Skipper Basil Sparkes most likely is darting ashore from a towboat to see if lunch is ready for his men. Incidentally, Basil used this boat several times on the main-river drive. Lower and narrower behind than the Terra Nova Boats, the 'Badger Boat' was a bit quicker in the tide and easier to handle. Her great disadvantage was size - she couldn't match the Terra Nova boats in carrying capacity.23
'Fram' (Norwegian boat name)1930
Terra Nova Lake, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Boat built by Henry Ralph in Traytown1935
Newpond, Terra Nova River Valley, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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