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The European Fishermen, 1497-1763
 
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The Cod Rush: The European Fishermen, 1497-1763



 

The Fishing Property


Reconstruction of a fishing property - 
University College of Cape Breton Art Gallery

Reconstruction of a fishing property in the faubourg of the fortress of Louisbourg, ca. 1745
Detail from a painting by Lewis Parker
University College of Cape Breton Art Gallery, Sydney, Nova Scotia
(Reproduced with the permission of Lewis Parker, © 1982)


Properties belonging to Benjamin Lester and Company - 
© Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorset County Museum

Properties belonging to Benjamin Lester and Company at Trinity, ca. 1800
Detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist
In the eighteenth century, merchants from Poole, England, developed Trinity as the focus of their trade in northeastern Newfoundland. In the winter of 1801, over 800 people, almost half of them born in Newfoundland, lived in some 100 dwellings around Trinity harbour. Their origins reflected the areas in southern England and Ireland where merchants from Poole had recruited labour.
(© Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, Dorset County Museum, Dorchester, Dorset, England)


Petit Plaisance, a fishing station - 
Royal Ontario Museum

Petit Plaisance, a fishing station (detail),
ca. 1690

Oil on wood,
by Gerard van Edema (1652-1700)
Photo: Steven Darby
(Royal Ontario Museum, 957.91)

Petit Plaisance was located near Placentia, on the south coast of Newfoundland. The two men carrying a handbarrow are returning from the flakes, where other shore workers are laying out cod to dry. Numerous buildings, a stage built on piles and two boats on the beach at low tide can also be seen.



Design


THE SHIPOWNER | THE CAPTAIN AND THE PILOT
THE SURGEON AND THE CHAPLAIN | THE FISHERMEN


 

 
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