A Journey..... To Fox Hill

North Cape was not only an industrial center in the fishing and trade business in those pioneer days, but it was a hiding place for the starting of the fox industry around 1870. The site was accidentally made accessable during a major fire there in

1971. Aroad built by Northern Enterprises Ltd., of Christopher

Cross, through the rugged terrain opened up a historical and secure area known as ”Fox Hill.” It was Everett Morrissey the local historian, who took me

on an interesting trek back into the past, as we walked the dense wooded area to the hallowed out cave that sheltered the foxes back

then. It was a Caroquet fisher-

man named Thomas Hill who first dug out alive a pair of foxes there. Sir Charles Dalton of Norway used the foxes for breeding purposes following the

discovery. He kept them in a barn he owned in Nail Pond. According to documents dated September 16, 1916, Dalton

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