WSJ^^^^99ii^^s^^^mmmm??^m^^-^^Mi^^^%ammi^utiUfS^ yiii .J:-S:;S:;;: II tilt I till li m m Bl;SfiISiliilIi??aiiilliiliIllS Covehead Harbour scene ca. 1950 Mary J. Shaw coll. owned by the MacLauchlans. Eventually Downey went out of business, and the other two factories were bought by George Long- worth, who operated both from 1885 to 1914 ??? "the big factory at the harbour, and the little one back of MacLauchlan's". The Mutch family of Stanhope had a small factory on the Bay Shore just below Mutch's Hotel from 1910 to 1914, and a little later Charles Burt operated a lobster cannery on the same shore below his house (now Kiloran). In the spring of 1915 the Covehead Packing Company was formed, including such names as Will Ross , Bert Misener , Robert MacKinnon , Coles Bell, John McCabe , Bernard Maye , George Gill , Tom McCabe , Donald MacMillan , Herb Marshall , James MacCormack and Watson Ross . They bought Longworth's buildings and packed their lobsters there, from 1915 to 1924. Another small group, Herb Kielly , Rupert Ross and some others, bought the Mutch factory and operated it for a couple of years (1915 and 16). Con MacMillan opened another small factory on land owned by John MacMillan on the West Covehead side of the Bay in 1914, but it was lost in a storm in 1918. In 1924 George DeBlois bought the Covehead Packing Company , building a new factory on the east side of the harbour, and operating it until 1931, the last year in which lobsters were packed at Covehead . After this, various buyers bought lobsters at the harbour and packed them elsewhere. From 1923 to 1935 the Portland Packing Company bought lobsters on the west side of the harbour, smacked them to Rustico and packed them there. The boat that hauled the fish to Rustico was captained by Sid Gauthier and later by Polly Charlie Gallant . Small buyers at this time included Jenkins, Roy Savage , Charlie Earle , Peter Hughes , D.A. MacDonald and Alf Watts. 54