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Nom de l'objet : Bench
Type de l'objet : Cobbler's
Catégorie de l'objet : Tools and Equipment for Materials
Sous-catégorie de l'objet : Leather, Horn & Shellworking T&E
Discipline : local history
Matériaux : wood, leather
Numéro d'accession : 1969.223
Nom de la collection : shipwrecks
Fabricant : James Lawson?
Pays d'origine : Canada
Continent d'origine : North America
Province d'utilisation : New Brunswick
Pays d'utilisation : Canada
Culture : Canadian
Période : 1860s
Description : Wooden structure with three legs, a leather covered bench, and a flat wooden rectangular work space with raised sides and one divided section for tools. Two legs at the front working area, one leg under the seat. Wood and leather are very worn, leather is frayed at the sides.
Fonctions : Used by James Lawson, a Danish seaman who was one of 8 survivors of a crew of 29 (ultimately only 5 survivors) of the wreck of the "Lord Ashburton" that occured during a snowstorm on January 19, 1857 off of the northern part of Grand Manan with an immediate loss of 21 lives. The headland is now known as "Ashburton Head". This was one of the worst marine disasters in the history of the Bay of Fundy. A monument to shiprwreck and lives lost is in the North Head cemetary. James Lawson spent more than five years recovering in a marine hosptial in Saint John, then a further three years, eventaully retraining as a cobbler and returning to Grand Manan where he remembered the great kindess of the people. He spoke very little English initially, and was disabled, but he quickly became the island's main cobbler. With his first wife, Jane, he had two children, Gertrude and Sherman, both of whom died in 1944. The children moved to the United States, but Sherman, who had one son, later returned to the island where he became a magistrate and postmaster. James died in 1918 at age 84. In 1906 he visited the Grand Harbour shcool and told his story of survival. James had to scale a steep, 200' basalt cliff in darkness, during a January blizzard, and make his way through the woods for about a mile where he crawled into a barn ready to die, but was found by a farmer when his dog set up an alarm. James lost all of his toes to exposure, so although he made shoes for a living, he had very short shoes to accommodate his loss of toes. Further information on the wreck of the Lord Ashburton can be found in The Grand Manan Historian No XXVI, Grand Manan Historical Society, Eric Allaby, 2001, p. 42. Further information on James Lawson can be found in On This Rock, L.K. Ingersoll, Grand Manan Museum Incorporated, 1979, pp. 25-33.
Hauteur : 44
Largeur : 48
Unité de mesure linéaire : cm
Nombre d'objets : 1
Objets associés : The Museum has other items belonging to James Lawson, including many of his shoe forms and his cobbler's anvil. There are other items in the Museum made from wood salvaged from the wreck of the Lord Ashburton, a 1,009 ton barque of St. Andrews, Scotland, which was wrecked on the northern head of Grand Manan on 19 January 1857, enroute to Saint John, NB from Toulon, France with volcanic rock as balast. This volcanic rock can still be found today on Whale Cove Beach and there are specimens of it in the Museum's geology collection. The gunstock of the Dark Harbour Hermits is made from salvaged wood from this wreck. A piece of the oak steering wheel was salvaged by Eric Allaby in a dive on September 11, 1973, and is in the shipwrecks exhibit. Two watercolour paintings by his son are in the Museum's collection.
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