#29 - Labrador's Fish Cove "Rocks (Study): the "Tub" in distance" - stereoview from ebay listing.

 

#30 - Labrador's Fish Cove "Rocks (Study)"- stereoview from ebay listing.

 

#34 - Labrador's Rigolette "View from Flag-Staff"- notice one of the kids sitting on a small canon. Stereoview from ebay listing.

 

Labrador fishing village - stereoview from ebay listing.

 

Drying fishing nets - stereoview from ebay listing.

 

Glacial planed rocks north coast of Labrador near Hopedale - from ebay listing.

 

Typical Labrador sod house - Parsons Collection

 

Spreading cod fish to dry in Battle Harbor, Labrador - Parsons Collection

Conception Bay Stereoview Photos

A professional photographer, likely working for the United Methodist Church took photos in the small communities within what is now referred to as Conception Bay North, like Western Bay, Tackers Cove and Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove. However, there is at least one view of Freshwater, Carbonear and of St. Johns.

At the time the photos were made, Methodist Reverend, Charles Lench, Superintendent of Western Bay Circuit, pictured in many of the stereoview images was traveling with the group. The 31 photos taken about 1910, are well over 100 years old and are now part of the public domain.

Stereoview photography was rare and expensive in Newfoundland at the time. It was likely Frederick Stevenson, once an employee of the Underwood and Underwood stereoview company until 1902 and now United Methodist Church Secretary overseeing foreign youth missions was documenting the works of the church among life in small Newfoundland outport villages. This included the missionary travels of Reverend, Charles Lench who was also writing his book titled "The History and Rise and progress of Methodism on the Western Bay Circuit…" published in 1912.

Watch the first story about the stereoviews on October 15, 2024 CBC article and video.

Be sure to see the January 11, 2025 CBC follow up story and videos showing all the stereoviews from the collection and also pictured below.

Conception Bay fisherman loading cod onto stage from boats.

 

Conception Bay fisherman loading cod onto stage from boats.

 

Conception Bay - young fisherman showing a large cod with Methodist Reverend, Charles Lench, Superintendent of Western Bay Circuit, who is pictured in other stereoview images.

 

Methodist Reverend, Charles Lench, Superintendent of Western Bay Circuit was writing his book on the history of Methodism as the photos were taken from St. Johns to Western Bay.

 

Conception Bay fisherman loading cod onto wheel barrow from stage.

 

Conception Bay boys holding large cod specimen.

 

Conception Bay fisherman with capelin fishing equipment.

 

Conception Bay fisherman with capelin carrying equipment.

 

Fred Thistle, a Conception Bay fisherman laying down capelin on brine soaked pine bough drying racks. The back of the stereoview housed by the similar Memorial University of Newfoundland collection was captioned.

 

Mr. Lebron from Broad Cove, throws a cast net for capelin. A Conception Bay fisherman with weighted fishing net, likely in Blackhead Cove.

 

A young man and Mr. Lebron, both Conception Bay fisherman with capelin and weighted fishing net likely in Blackhead Cove.

 

Conception Bay fisherman boats.

 

Conception Bay - fishing boats with a steamer anchored in the distance.

 

Western Bay church and town with Methodist Reverend Charles Lench.

 

Church in Western Bay.

 

Western Bay church kids in the pews.

 

Western Bay carriage drivers with same church in the background.

 

Western Bay Nathaniel and Emily Follett home with Methodist Reverend Charles Lench.

 

Western Bay Follett family home and yard with two women standing in front of the biscuit box house, one being Sarah Ann Whalen, a Follett ancestor.

 

Emily and Nathaniel Follett in a studio photos and in the front yard feeding the chickens with similar house or later addition - same white picket fence in front.

 

Conception Bay goats graze.

 

New church construction in Broad Cove which would burn down in 1937.

 

Broad Cove with homes, roads and and crops, taken likely from the top of the church.

     

Conception Bay - fisherman in their fishing punt floating next to a schooner.

 

Row of anchored ships, likely in St. Johns.

   

Fleet of fishing schooners.

 

Conception Bay - fishing boats with a spidery stage hanging off the rocks.

 

Conception Bay - Flatrock? More precariously hanging stages nestled among the rocks.

 

Conception Bay - In the fishing boat with the wharf in the background.

 

Conception Bay - Horse driven carriage travels away from the coast.

 

Conception Bay - Horse driven carriage travels away from the coast.

 

Looking over Freshwater Bay of Freshwater, Carbonear, Conception Bay.

 

Looking over Freshwater Bay of Freshwater, Carbonear, Conception Bay - One of the few, if only stereoviews of Freshwater. The photographer or likely the wind shook the camera on the tripod and the image is a bit blurred.

St. Johns Stereoview Photos
 

From the wharves with barrels of cod liver or seal oil on the west side of St. John's Harbor.

 

St. John's Harbor cod fish drying stages - Parsons Collection

 

St. John's Harbor boats at the docks with the city in the distance - Parsons Collection

 

St. John's narrows with grazing goats and the lighthouse in the distance - ebay listing.

With a newspaper in hand, a St. John's resident walks the dirt street with the bay and boats in the background. - ebay listing.

 

St. John's town and harbor - ebay listing.

 

St. John's town and harbor - stereoview photo from the Library of Congress

 

Quidi Vidi Lake - stereoview photo from the Library of Congress

 

Quidi Vidi Harbor - stereoview photo from the Library of Congress

 

St. John's fishing village and boats, likely Quidi Vidi - Parsons Collection.

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