Some of these photos already exist on the site but a lot of them don’t. In all cases, the quality of the photo is enhanced over any copy on the website.
Hargrove family member Pat Gillespie provided the Hargrove pictures as well as much information about this western branch of the family.
Some of these photos and other information about the family were graciously provided by Douglas Belding who, in turn, collected many of them from numerous other family members.
George Luther Hargrove Sr (1838 – 1930) married Daniel Belding’s granddaughter Drusilla Belding (1837 – 1923) and took up residence in Chance Harbour for the rest of his life. He was a fisherman which he combined with subsistence farming in order to accommodate the needs of his very large family.
Courtesy of Pat Hargrove Gillespie
The Hargroves are buried in the Baptist Cemetery on Cemetery Loop Road just west of the bridge over Moose Creek at the western extremity of Chance Harbour off Hwy 790.
George Luther Hargrove, husband of Drusilla Hargrove, as a young man
Courtesy Pat Hargrove Gillespie
Nathanial Hepburn, wife of Jane Sophia “Jenny” Hargrove
Courtesy of Lloyd and Bev Hargrove
To clarify, Nellie McGowan’s father was the lightkeeper on
Partridge Island. In the middle, she married Jim Hargrove
as his first wife. On her right is Jane Sophia
‘Jenny’ Hargrove who married Nathanial Hepburn.
Both Jenny and Nellie died as very young women.
Courtesy of Lloyd and Bev Hargrove
Bristall Hargrove’s son, John Frederick Hargrove (1916 – 2005) in 2002
Courtesy of Patricia Hargrove Gillespie, his daughter
Than Belding and Alma Trafton on their wedding day 1904 courtesy of Doug Belding
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Ralph Belding, Sales Representative for Westons, and wife Marion.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Leonard Thompson Jr, Pilot in Royal Canadian Air Force who lost his life in World War II, the only of the villagers to give his life for his country.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Peggy Belding and friend on Red Sands beach beside the new wharf access ramp at low water examining basking shark caught in salmon drift nets c 1960
Maggie Belding, wife of Robert
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Five generations from Elizabeth Flaglor Watts, Maggie’s mother, Maggie, Maggie’s daughter Hazel Sidwell, Hazel’s son Kevin Sidwell and in the arms of Mrs. Watt, Kevin’s daughter Karen Sidwell, her great great granddaughter circa 1950
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Capt Jesse L Beldinga on the right with his brother in law Fred Trafton
Courtesy of Doug Belding
George Tiner, Boatbuilder, son of Amanda and David Tiner and nephew of Capt Jesse Tiner.
Wallace Belding and his newest grandchild, George Belding – son of Arnold and Maisie Stokes Belding circa 1950
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Capt Jesse Belding relaxing in style in his lawn chair on his property overlooking Belding Cove in the background.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Wallace ‘Wallie’ Belding striking a pose in front of the store of his brother Robert ‘Bob’ Belding
Courtesy of Doug Belding
David Thompson, Federal Fishing Office with lobster that passed the test and was ready for the pot
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Arnold Belding rows his son Douglas Belding over the calm, shallow water of Belding Creek in towards the beach in behind their house on the Crow Island Road.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Jesse Tiner, a Fisherman and Boatbuilder, turned to modeling in his retirement years. He and several other members of the family had experience as bluewater sailors crewing on sailing ships engaged in the Caribbean trade around the turn of the century in and before 1900.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Arnold Belding holds the lobster with his brother Lorne behind him. Muriel Thompson Boyd (dark skirt, foot on crate) holding daughter Muriel Ann with unknown friend holding another child
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Arnold Belding doing maintenance on his lobster traps in the offseason
This is the Road Gang at Hall’s Siding in August of 1923. Seated, from the left, Bob Tiner, Jim Kerrigan, and Jim Tiner. In back from the left, Don Thompson, Cliff Belding, Jim Murphy, and Alonzo Kearns. These folk did statute labour on the roads in Musquash Parish all summer to work off their taxes and others paid them to do the statute labour necessary to pay off their taxes as well. For them, the system of statute labour was a form of participatory democracy at the grass roots level in a time when cash money for the taxes was hard to come by. The system of statute labour has since be abandoned but it worked well for the labourers had a personal interest for themselves and their extended families in caring for and expanding the roads of the Parish. These men were no strangers to hard labour and would put in a fair day’s work for the Parish.
A fishing boat common in design to most of the inshore fishery on the Bay of Fundy in the 1930s and 1940s.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
These larger boats are typicals of those used by fishermen between 1950 and 1980.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
These boats of lengths up to 45 feet are typical of the current standard for fishing boats and came into use after 1980. Better equipment such as radar, global positioning satellite access, autopilots, wide area sonar scans, powerful ship to ship and ship to shore radiotelephones, some using satellite or single side band technology, all provide wider fishing flexibility and much better safety for the crew. Longliners like this with a 300 trap lobster license or scalloping license and gear would mean a half million dollar investment to the fisherman.
Salmon fishing skiff common to the Saint John area and this picture of them moored in Dipper Harbour to dry their sails was taken in 1918.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Some say this is the second oldest house in the village after the Boyle house. Jim Thompson and his family occupied it in the 1800s It’s on the left side of the Crow Is Road quite near the wharf at the turnaround for that road. Jim’s granddaughters Libby and Janet, daughters of May Thompson and Ernie Chadwick
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Two men working in the weir dip out herring of all sizes from the seine into a scale boat. The fish gyrations against the other fish and the side of the boat cause their scales to shed and collect in a well under the grated deck. After a short time, the fish are then transferred to the hold of the sardine boat which takes them to the cannery. The scales have commercial value for cheap jewelry and the like and were be sold to buyers in Saint John.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
The first lighthouse was built by Wallace Belding and others on Reef Point shortly after 1900. Than Belding was the first lightkeeper until his death. In 1970, the light was automated. The lighthouse service pushed the old lighthouse into the Bay and sank it. They unloaded a new metal and concrete tower and installed it on the site where the old one had been. The last lightkeeper was Muriel Thompson who took over the contract when her husband drowned in a fishing accident and held it until the light was automated.
There was one occasion within living memory that Belding Cove filled up with ice broken off from the Tantramar Marshes at the eastern extremity of the Bay of Fundy and blown and carried east by tide and winds. Boats could not access the wharves at or use Chance Harbour because of this ice until it was blown and born away with winds and tides favourable to this result.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
In or about 1931, this aircraft made an emergency landing at high water on Belding Creek. After repairs and fueling, it took off to continue its expedition.
Courtesy of Doug Belding
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Harry MacDonald
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