residents who rescued and cared for the survivors; but the entire crews of the two vessels wrecked off Stanhope were drowned. The schooner Nettle was salvaged during the following January by the MacMillan family, who hauled it up the beach and overland into Covehead Bay, using 60 horses. The six or seven drowned sailors washed up on the beach at Stanhope were collected with horse and cart and buried in the Long Pond cemetery by Alex MacMillan, with one helper, who would not work after dark; they made rough coffins by daylight, and when night fell, Alex had to go it alone.

Fishing is still a hazardous occupation today, but in the memory of our senior citizens, the number of lives lost while engaged in this line of work has been limited; the names of Theodore Carr and Lachlan MacMillan come to mind. Today’s larger boats with their sophisticated

equipment give fishermen a big advantage over their forebears with their small sail boats and dories.

Lads of the Village ca. 1905 L-R: Arch MacLauchlan, Barney McCabe, Frank Marshall, Rupert Ross, Tom McCabe I. MacLauchlan coll.

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