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This picture depicts the haulup.1950
Sparkes' Sawmill, Rendell's Point, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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One of the leading logging industrialists in Glovertown was Nelson Sparkes. The next six pictures are scenes from the lower Terra Nova River, probably in 1948, showing the kind of activities the Sparkes industry created. The men most likely are Nelson Sparkes, Max Blackwood, Garland Purchase, and Gladstone House. The sawlogs are being driven down-river for the Sparkes sawmill on Rendell's Point. Those very logs, as lumber, are now most likely parts of houses in Newfoundland. The sticks you see are going along with the sawlogs and probably still today hold up wharves somewhere in Atlantic Canada.3
Ready to be rolled overboard1948
Terra Nova River, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Waiting for a trip downriver1948
Terra Nova River, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Into the fray with pickpoles and peavies1948
Terra Nova River, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Glorious work on the river1948
Terra Nova River, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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Finding channels through the jamups1948
Terra Nova River, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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It could be rough and tough and dangerous1948
Terra Nova River, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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In the next scenes we see two of Nelson Sparkes' sawmills.10
This picture depicts the haulup.1950
Sparkes' Sawmill, Rendell's Point, Glovertown, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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The Sparkes Sawmill1955
Maccles, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
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In its heyday, logging for papermaking and for sawmilling made Glovertonians the greatest woodcutters and the greatest river drivers in Newfoundland and their glory ought to be preserved. Logging brought thousands and even millions of dollars to the Glovertown economy. |
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