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The Birth of a Community, The Story of Birchy Bay

 

 

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Edgar Osmond - "Then you have, you have to, four or five barrels of salt water.You put them in a puncheon, fill up the puncheon with salt water. Then you break up your rind, your fir rind, or white spruce rind, in little snaps. And um..."
Jessie Osmond - "Bark"
Edgar Osmond - "Um...Then when you get the skins, clean the fur and that all off. You put them in and bark em. Then you take them out and put them in the chummy line and haul them tight until they get dry now then they was complete. My son was always you know you never t'was never a dull moment, eh? There was always something to do."

 

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