Formal Recognition Type

Fisheries Heritage Preservation Program

Notes

This fishing room dates back to the early 1900s. Henry Turnbull fished from these premises for upwards of sixty years. He bought the fishing room from the Butt family from Carbonear, who had been fishing there for thirty years previous. The fishing room has a stage, two stores, an outhouse, flakes, a wharf and a bunkhouse. The stage was used in the cod and salmon fisheries and for storing salt bulk cod. The stage still stores old wooden fish boxes, wooden barrels, prongs, puncheon tubs, rope, nets and cod traps. All the buildings were built from local wood and clapboard siding which were sawed in the owner’s sawmill.

Community

Dead Islands

Municipality

Not specified (Labrador)

Builder

Butt Family