Print, Photographic
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| Nom de l'objet : | Print, Photographic |
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| Catégorie de l'objet : | Graphic Documents |
| Matériaux : | paper ink |
| Numéro d'accession : | CMP 00-134 |
| Autres données géographiques : | [46.017495821553,-61.539433057178] |
| Date de début de production : | 1986-01-01 |
| Date de fin de production : | 2000-12-31 |
| Description : | Pictured is a pontoon plane in the water at the Port Hood Public Wharf. There are a number of people assembled on the wharf. To the right is a ship - possibly the Kinburn. The photo is attached to a piece of white paper |
| Commentaires : | Herman Walsh, the son of John Pius and Bridget (Moran) Walsh, was born May 21, 1893, in Lynn, Massachusetts. His parents soon came to live in Port Hood and Herman grew up in the family home on the High Road where the Fiddle and the Sea Bed & Breakfast is now located (2015). In 1936 he married Jessie Gillis of South West Mabou. As an adult Herman put his hand to a number of occupations. He fished with his neighbor, Archie Malcolm MacDonald and also with Paddy Morris. He was a skilled carpenter as well. He moved the old Port Hood Greetings newspaper building out the High Road from the Corner (now the Central Park) and turned it into a marriage home . According to his nephew, He was quite a character. He was a carpenter, a fisherman, a hunter and a rum runner. On one occasion he came through the locks at the St. Peters Canal. The police were searching for him and they had a plane as part of the search. Herman broke the mast on his boat by sawing down the pole. This enabled him somehow to get through the locks of the Canal. Anyway, he eluded the police and succeeded in reaching Port Hood without being apprehended. However, the seaplane came to Port Hood as part of the ongoing police search and it landed on its skis on the harbour water and tied up at the Wharf. This was in the 1930s when a plane in Port Hood was as unusual as a horse and buggy today. Many people made the trek to the Wharf to check out this rare metal seabird. Collie MacDonell remembers picking blueberries as a small boy on the hill across the road from his High Road home one summer day along with his father, Collie Senior. He heard the sound of an engine. He looked up and saw a plane coming in to land at the government Wharf in Port Hood. It was the plane in search of Herman Walsh. Herman and Jessie later moved to Boston. It was here on November 28, 1951 that Herman was tragically killed in a boating accident in the outer harbor of Boston. LYNN, the motor fishing vessel on which Herman was working collided with the steam tanker VENTURA and sank in Boston Harbour resulting in the death of the crew, including Herman. His body was recovered. His wife, Jessie, brought his remains back to his beloved Port Hood and had his body buried in the old St. Peters cemetery, close to his parents. The label refers to a helicopter but it is clearly a plane. |
| Longueur : | 11.7 cm |
| Largeur : | 17.4 cm |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Chestico |
| Province de l'établissement : | Nova Scotia |