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Mr. Douglas Brushett lived in Bull's Cove, Burin during the Tidal Wave 1929. Mr. Brushett shares his memories of the Tidal Wave.

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Mr. Douglas Brushett
25 November 2005
Burin, Newfoundland, Canada
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"It was a beautiful fine evening, nice, and we were just outside the house. A little grassy place there, and it was two or three of us there at the time, and we heard a queer sound and after that the ground shook under our feet, trembled under our feet and we wondered what was happening. That was five o'clock in the evening. That was very well, so after supper, near the house, not very far from that, we used to always go playing cards. That's where we used to go in our night time. Got to pick up now this fella who played with playing cards, and the door, there was a fellow rushed in the house right fast, he said "Bull's Cove" he said, "is afloat."
We all rushed outside. We tried to get up home, cause we lived upon the hill there, so when we just got up to where I could see our own place. Our wharf was out in the middle of the harbor, two big strouters stuck up out in the middle of the harbor. We went on home."

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Mr. Brushett's Home
25 November 2005
Bull's Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
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"Next morning when we went, we went down to the waterside to see what was there if there was anything there. The sides of a house belonging to Port au Bras that were there in the water on the waterfront. But there were no bodies on them. Now further up, in Path End there was a lot of refuge, a lot of houses from Port au Bras. I think two or three bodies were on that refuge."

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LeFeuvre's Premises: The 'Centenary' Moored to the Wharf
1910
Bull's Cove, Dominion of Newfoundland
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"The water must have come in on one side of the Cove and out on the other side, because there was a house there. They were living into it, and the shores of the house was in the water. That house didn't go, but now Lefeuvres had a big fishing store, was about forty or fifty feet, two story, and that store was a nice ways from the water and that store went. No one didn't see it going. Where it went to, we don't know."

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Destruction
November, 1929
Port au Bras, Dominion of Newfoundland
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"The water in Port au Bras, least they tell me, went in to the post office. The Post Office, in olden times was a nice ways in the road that's where they said the water come to that. That was a lot of water."

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A Community Working Together
1900
Jersey Room, Dominion of Newfoundland
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"Down in Jersey Room , they had a big stable in down what they called Jersey Back Cove. They used to have cows and horses and stuff and they used to make hams and that down there and that all went. The next morning that was up in Kirby's Cove. Everything went...horses, cows, the whole works. They wouldn't be able to see it going. They had to walk down so far to get into this Cove. That was Jersey Back Cove they called it."

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Josphine Churchill: Postmaster Port au Bras
1980
Penny's Pond,Newfoundland, Canada
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"There was a post office there (Port au Bras), that's how far now the water went. Josie Churchill (picture) she used to look after the Post Office."

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Stephen Henry Isaacs' House Tied to the anchored 'Marion Belle Woolf'
November, 1929
Burin, Dominion of Newfoundland
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