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Survival of A People: Using our Natural Resources 1875-1975
Location: Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada

 
Hauling herring nets. The fish will be used for bait.
37 of 80 		Billy and Glenn Welch bring the herring catch aboard.
38 of 80 		Fish weirs located near 'Irishtown', Brier Island
39 of 80 		Fish nets hung to dry
40 of 80 		Glenn Welch splits a fish aboard a hand lining boat.
41 of 80 		Fish flakes in front of George Denton's fish shop.
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The lighthouse keepers home at Western Light , with their fish skids, and houses.
43 of 80 		William Hartman shown with fish drying on a clothesline, an alternative to fish flakes.
44 of 80 		Split fish on flakes between the Baptist Vestry and E.C. Bower's Dry Goods Store
45 of 80 		Fish drying on flakes c. 1944
46 of 80 		Salt fish stored in a building owned by D.B. Kenney Sr.
47 of 80 		Lobster processing plant c. 1900
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F. B. Lent's cod liver oil plant
49 of 80 		Bill Bailey, in front of the 'Westport Pickling Company'.
50 of 80 		Melbourne MacDormand's Fish Plant, c.1940
51 of 80 		Raw material for the cod liver oil plant?
52 of 80 		D.B. Kenney Fish Plant c. 1960
53 of 80 		William Buckman on left, shows a large halibut landed at D. B. Kenney Ltd.
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