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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Front row (L - R): Henry Efford, Willis Lear, Gladys (Lear) Attwood with Shirley Attwood, Glady's daughter
2nd Row (L - R): Henry Lear, Lilly Efford, Susie Kennedy, Frank Lear, James John Lear, Belinda Porter. Back Row (L - R): Doris Kennedy, Caroline Lear (Ernest Lear's wife), Daisy Lear.
Taken in front of Aunt Belinda Porter's House.
Ca. 1940 © Henry Lear

Posing in their Sunday best are Frank Lear and Jane Kennedy (later Mclean) in the garden of Jane's parents. Photo taken around 1930-32.

Uncle Charles Kennedy's house is to the left and Uncle George Lear's is the white one in the background.

© Henry Lear

This picture was taken on Kelly's Island around 1926. The men are there cutting boughs for the fish flakes. Sitting on a pile of boughs getting a mug-up are men from Hibb's Hole (L - R): William Henry Lear, Henry Lear, Frank Lear (Brother of Henry), James John Lear (Brother of William Henry and father of Henry and Frank).

© Henry Lear

Eli Porter (b. May 13 1866) son of Robert and Ellen Porter of Hibb's Hole.

Porter, while working with his friend James John Lear in Dominion #2 coal mine, Glace Bay, was killed on June 2, 1902 after only one week on the job.

He was married to Jane Lear, sister of James John. © Henry Lear

Men from Hibb's Hole cutting wood near the southern head of Kelly's Island. This wood was bundled on top of the cliff and then thrown down into the water.
L - R : Henry (Harry) Porter, John Charles Porter, William Henry Lear and James John Lear. Notice the stick behind John Charles Porter, -probably used for a punt stem or a runner for a catamaran. © Henry Lear

Hibbs Cove around 1933
Back Row (L - R): Lilly Efford holding Henry Efford, Ann Sarah Lear, Diana Kennedy behind Vine Kennedy, Ruth Lear, Liz Emma Kennedy holding Golden Kennedy, Belinda Porter
Front Row of Children: Clayton Kennedy, Violet Kennedy, Newman Kennedy, Sophie Kennedy, Lewis Kennedy, Les Kennedy. © Henry Lear

James John Lear of Hibbs Cove, (grandfather of Henry & Adrian Lear) posing for a photo. James John had three sons, James John (Don), Henry, and Frank and a little girl named Jane, who died as an infant.

Photo in Hibbs Cove (L to R): Frank Lear, Lillian Lear, Malcolm Kennedy and the little boy at the right is John Lear. The photo was taken in the early 40's.

This picture was taken around 1940 at Hibbs Cove. James John Lear, Dorothy Porter, Sandy Porter

(L to R): Blanche Lear, Chesley Petten, Ruth Lear, James John Lear, Gertrude Lear (about 1920 at Hibb's Cove)