Douglas Harbour Community Centre

Inside the hall

Wall mural

Fifty photographs collected from community members, showing the people, places and features of the surrounding community during the 160-year life of this building.

The wall mural: fifty black-and-white photographs of Douglas Harbour and Scotchtown

Tap any numbered photo to enlarge it. Open the whole mural.

Who and what is in each photo (1–50)
  1. The May Queen steamship at Scotchtown Wharf. She ran regularly between Saint John and Chipman carrying passengers and cargo.
  2. Kenneth, Allan and Eldon Hunter — three sons of Harold and Georgia, who are pictured in photo #33
  3. Greta Palmer — on her 100th birthday
  4. Russell Hunter — working in the field with a team of horses
  5. Freda and Charlie McCoy — attending a Valentine's Day dance in the hall
  6. The Balmain farm — still standing
  7. Calvin Lunergan
  8. Firewood saw crew — local men worked together to cut firewood in spring for the following winter, using a shared mobile saw driven by a tractor
  9. Douglas Harbour school students, L–R: Dorothy Palmer, Irene Palmer, Louise Coakley, Pearl Earle, Annie Hunter. Back row: Burton Hunter
  10. Benjamin Tibbits — inventor of the compound steam engine, recognized posthumously with a marker in the Scotchtown Cemetery
  11. Murray Coakley as a young boy on the farm. He is also found later in life in photo #21.
  12. Dorothy Palmer and Pat Norrad Clark — local teachers. This photo was taken in the hall.
  13. The Reindeer steamship — the first ship with Benjamin Tibbits' compound steam engine. Tibbits is shown in photo #10.
  14. Douglas Harbour
  15. Lorne, Herbert, Charles and Harold Briggs — 1943, in Manchester, England
  16. Road grading crew — Scotchtown Road
  17. Volunteer firefighters receiving their 10-year recognition. Front row: Bob London, Ron Hunter, Rick Hunter, Paul Stewart. Back row: Dwight Emberley, Clifford Stewart, Floyd West
  18. Stanley Butler — on his wood boat
  19. Charles Coakley — in his navy uniform, photographed at the Coakley farm, the current site of Grand Lake Park
  20. Land grant map — Grand Lake west
  21. Douglas Harbour wharf construction crew. Back: Harold Post, Harry Anderson, Rupert Post, Hanford Balmain, Lloyd Hunter, Charlie Wasson, Otto MacFarlane, Earle Carle, Roy Knapp, Lawrence Clark, Murray Coakley, Chesley Hunter. Front row: Fred Palmer, Chester Miles, Odbur Hanselpacker
  22. The Post homestead
  23. Douglas Harbour Community Centre — sometime after World War II, as electrical power lines are in place
  24. Scotchtown school children, 1924. Back row: Herbert Church, Lily London, Jo Purves, Jean Purves, Reg Purves. Middle: Frank Church, Ruby Denton, Wendell Purves, Eltie London. Front row: Cecil Denton, Hanford Balmain
  25. Jessie Balmain
  26. Sypher's Cove
  27. Sunnyside Beach
  28. Douglas Harbour Community Centre
  29. Coakley farmhouse — on the current site of the Grand Lake Municipal Park (also known as Princess Park)
  30. Hunter residence — currently Bertie's Restaurant
  31. Albright residence — Sypher's Cove
  32. The May Queen steamship — at Robertson's Point
  33. Harold and Georgia Hunter
  34. Ruby Denton's residence — Maquapit Lake. Ruby is also found in photo #24 as a student of the Scotchtown School in 1924.
  35. Palmer's Store — the first store in the area
  36. Loyalist Rock — located at Sypher's Cove, it has since fallen into the lake. Posed in front is Earle Carle, who is also found in photo #21.
  37. Scotchtown school — located at the corner of Scotchtown Rd and the Back Rd; no longer standing
  38. Bob and Ardith London's wedding reception, held in the hall in 1970
  39. The Purves residence — still standing on Scotchtown Rd
  40. Sypher's Cove
  41. Douglas Harbour volunteer firefighters — early 1980s
  42. The May Queen steamship at Douglas Harbour Wharf
  43. The United Church in Scotchtown — still holding Sunday service after 100 years
  44. Douglas Harbour Community Centre — renovating the roof, placing the building on a foundation and adding the front entrance in 2007
  45. Russell and Harold Hunter with a team of horses and a sled for hauling wood
  46. Ethel and Rupert Post
  47. Douglas Harbour
  48. Russell and Harold Hunter with a team of horses named May and Queen
  49. Hunter's Ferry Bridge — built 1912–1914, destroyed by fire in 1975, at the current site of the causeway
  50. Russell Hunter — with his first truck

Spot a correction? Email dhhallsales@gmail.com. More photos are in the photo gallery.