Port de Grave Heritage Pictures

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The heritage online page will capture Port de Grave in photography from the past. This page will give a glimpse of the community and its people back in time. Pictures of Port de Grave that are 40 to 100 years old will bring back to the older generation vivid memories once forgotten while on the other hand the younger generation will experience a whole new sense of history and the need to know more about the days of their fore parents submission page click here

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Year: 2 September 1886
Photographer: Unknown.

Description: "Port de Grave, Newfoundland. Miss Emma Bartlett and Miss Clara Blathern in carriage." Narrow street, lined with houses, boats, and fish stores. Men in doorway. Good wooden construction details. Painted circle on door. (Pinkney Collection.)

Credit: National Archives of Canada
Source: collections.ic.gc.ca/fisheries

Three childhood buddies Henry Lear, Willie Petten and Graham Efford posing for a photo in Lears Cove around the year 1953. © doreen petten

Brothers Ches and Aubrey Petten and their crew unloading their catch of codfish at Hibb's Cove in the 1960's. Both boats were built much alike. Aubrey's boat has the green deck and the diamond shaped windows and Chesley's is the one with the red deck and the oval windows. © doreen petten

A natural trapeze artist in his younger years John (Johnny) Kennedy performs a trick by hanging from a 40' high structure that he built. Anyone who had the privilege to have seen him doing his thing will always remember his acrobatic stunts. ©nellie strowbridge

A picture of the lighthouse at Green Point, Port de Grave. Back in the early part of the 1900's the house of the lighthouse keeper was built attached to the lighthouse. The keeper could go into the lighthouse from his porch without having to go outdoors.

source: dept of fisheries

Ship Cove in the early 1950's. The largest building near the wharf is the liver plant that operated there before the first fresh fish processing plant was built.© Dr. A. Lear

Left to right- Hibb's Hole oldtimers, Samuel Lear, John Lear, Samuel Kennedy (re: martin-genealogy), and Richard Lear posing for a photo in Lear's Cove. © Dr. A. Lear

Jacob Petten, Sarah (Pottle) Petten, and their daughter, 5 year old Jessie Petten, who would later marry Harry William Porter. This picture was taken around 1922-1923 and was most likely taken on the door step of their home in Pick Eyes. ©Pearl Bradbury

Picture of Jessie (Petten) Porter, Wilfred Petten (Pearl Bradbury’s father), Caroline (Carrie) (Petten) Tucker and toddler Rob Porter taken around 1943-1945. The picture was probably taken in Pick Eyes where where they were all raised. ©Pearl Bradbury

L-R: Caroline (Carrie) (Petten) Tucker who married Eleazor Tucker of Ship Cove, Sarah (Pottle) Petten who married Jacob Petten of Pick Eyes, and Jessie ( Petten) Porter who married Harry William Porter. Photo was taken in Pick Eyes in Jacob and Sarahs garden around 1943. ©Pearl Bradbury