Beaver Cove


Beaver Cove

Not named after our Beavers (but we have a few) but after an Irish family given land as a pension after British military service. Not settled, so given over to Hebredian settlers 





Beaver Cove School invoice 1947



             Saint Anthony Daniel Chapel, Kamp Beaver, circa 1950.


Ronald MacKinnon and John M. O'Handley sit on top some type of softwood product, possibly pit props





               


Hay making in Beaver Cove circa 1910

 

Kamp Beaver staff in the 1950's. I need identities but I recognize Fr. Hector MacDonald, seated and Ron MacKinnon standing in the doorway.




 








 


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