Acadian Museum and Archives of West PubnicoPubnico-Ouest, Nova Scotia
The Lobster Plug Story in West Pubnico
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Regular band. Richard Surette Robert d'Eon Ronnie d'Entremont Sharpening stone. Shelley Fox Shipping tag for the bus. Simeon (Mion) d'Entremont Stacking and feeding slices of wood into the machine. Stillman Surette (Mun) Super jumbo. The children would count the pegs in bunches of 10 to make 1000. The cost was .25 cents ,in 2003 it would be approx. $1800.00 The lobster has to measure at least 3 1/4'' to be legal size. The lobster is almost as big as a wooden lobster trap. They paid.75 cents per 1000,and requested 500 000 plugs. This machine was also created by Benoit Pothier. Tiny wooden pegs. unknown Wire lobster traps.
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