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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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Stephen Henry Isaacs' home anchored to the "Marion Belle Woolf"

"There was a house, a nice ways from the water, Stephen Henry Isaacs owned that house, and that house went. That floated out through and that handy up to far as Bull's Cove, Path End we'll say. Ned Clarke got a vessel there. He must of towed that house around the turn, that boat, up to Burin, down in Bull's Cove in Burin Harbour. She was there a nice bit before they carried her away. That was Neddy Clarke had that, owned that, the skipper of that vessel."

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The House, Once Tied to the 'Marion Belle Woolf', Was Rebuilt.
1 December 2005
Port au Bras, Newfoundland, Canada

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This house floated out to sea in the Tidal Wave 1929. It was returned to Port au Bras by boat and rebuilt.

"That house was down there in Burin a good many days, tied on to the stern of that vessel. I don't know what time that vessel carried the house out but the house was carried down in Port au Bras and was hauled up in the same place where it left there."

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St. Andrew's Church of England Cemetary
1 December 2005
Port au Bras, Newfoundland, Canada

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St. Andrew's Anglican Cemetery, Port au Bras

"Them bodies, a lot of them were Fudges. Tom Fudge's house, he went, some of them went, people and all, because they were right down close to the waterside in Port au Bras. Water took the house and all. One man in Port au bras, he was a crippled man, and he said, "That's one thing I won't be is drowned," he said, " 'cause I'm not going out anywhere for to get drowned."
And you know the water came in and took that house and he was in there and he got drowned."

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Mrs. Pearl Hatfield (Brushett) resides in Kirby's Cove, Burin.

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Pearl (Brushett) Hatfield 'Memories'
1920
Kelly's Cove, Dominion of Newfoundland

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Photo: Kelly's Cove
I remember being in the kitchen and the dishes were rattling in the cupboard. Mom, I think, was preparing supper. After that we were sent to bed, around seven o'clock, my sister and I. She had an earache so mom warmed up a heavy plate and that's what she had under her ear, wrapped in a towel. Then I don't remember anymore until my sister woke us up, after the house had left Kelly's Cove and went over to Bartletts Island.

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Mrs. Pearl Hatfield (Brushett)
October, 2005
Burin, Newfoundland, Canada

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My mother thought it was raining really hard but my brother looked out the window and the water was up to the window seal. So then she took the three kids, the other three kids and went upstairs and then the wave took us over to Bartletts Island...The next wave came and took us back to the beach in Keely's Cove...and Mr. and Mrs. Hollett came down and they broke or mom broke the window in the parlour, they used to call it these days, and then we got out through one pane of glass. Mom, and she cut her wrist breaking the window and for years after she used to have glass coming out, out through. And my sister, Lottie, got cut getting out through and that was the only injuries we had.

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The Brushett family
1930
Kelly's Cove, Dominion of Newfoundland

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Photo of the five Brushett children, Kelly's Cove

"So then the wave came in, the first wave came in and took our house over to Bartletts Island, which was about a half kilometer away. Mom tried to get us out there but she couldn't make it and then soon the next wave came in and took the house back to Kelly's Island beach, but not where we had left, of course. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Hollett came down and mom broke the window in the parlor. And then we all got out through one pane of glass. My mom had broke her, my mom had cut her wrist when she broke the window and my sister had a cut on her arm too trying to get out through..."

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Brushett, William on the 'Keith V. Collin'
1935
Halifax, Canada

Credits:
Picture courtesy of Barry Hollett