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Having no relatives here, his neighbours did not miss him until the next afternoon. There was quite a heavy sea. It is thought the dory became swamped and Mr. Robertson was drowned.
Some time afterwards the dory, containing his body, drifted ashore at Cape Breton near his old home.
A Good Year
1915 was a good year for the fishermen. The Robertsons and Seth MacLean took ashore their trawls on Christmas Day, one of the longest fishing trips on record — nearly 8 months. Codfish in quality, quantity and price was the best for years and the motor
boats and dories enabled the fishermen to land them in large quantities.
Washed Overboard
Daniel MacDonald, son of Roderick MacDonald, Glencorrodale, and fishing from one of the Gloucester schooners, was washed overboard on the coast of Newfoundland. He was a man of powerful physique and had sailed out of Gloucester for twenty—five years. One of his brothers, Archie, also sailed out of this port.
John Stewart, brother to William Stewart who lived on property now owned by Iver Stewart, Kingsboro, was lost at sea
on the schooner, Sweepstakes, on a trip from Gloucester, Mass. on Cold Friday, February 8, 1861.
William, too, had a close call. When a young man he was one of five aboard a small schooner called the Almira which cap— sized on a stormy night off the North Side. Three of the crew were drowned, but he and the captain, John Beaton, of East Point, clung to the side of the floating wreck, every sea washing over them, until she drifted ashore at Black Pond, a short distance
west from East Point, a place noted for its wrecks for a century. They finally reached shore safely.
Gas Engines
Milton Young and Joshua MacDonald were the first residents of Kingsboro to use gasoline engines to saw firewood.
Saw Mill
In the Red Point district, Jack Bruce, Raleigh's father,
owned and operated a saw mill. Rev. and Mrs. F. W. Mollins reside on this property now.
Lost at Sea
Three young men from these eastern districts lost their lives by drowning while fishing. They were: