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[[Category:Communities of Random Island]]
[[Category:Communities of Random Island]]
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| name  = Snook's Harbour United Church
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| founded date = c.1927
| previous denomination = Methodist
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'''Snook's Harbour''' is a community on the north side of [[Random Island]], fronting on [[Smith Sound]].  
'''Snook's Harbour''' is a community on the north side of [[Random Island]], fronting on [[Smith Sound]].  
Its name is thought to be derived from the name od winter woods workers and the fairly large harbour. While shallow, the harbour is one of the few sheltered locations on the Smith Sound side of Random Island.  
Its name is thought to be derived from the name of winter woods workers and the fairly large harbour. While shallow, the harbour is one of the few sheltered locations on the Smith Sound side of Random Island.  


The community itself is really a consolidation of three communities, Snook's Harbour itself, but also the outlying [[Sooley's Brook]] and [[Wake's Brook]].
The community itself is really a consolidation of three communities, Snook's Harbour itself, but also the outlying [[Sooley's Brook]] and [[Wake's Brook]].
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Shortly thereafter, we see names such as [[Belbin]], [[Cooper]], [[Hefford]], [[Jacobs]], [[Loder]] and [[Ryan]] entering the records.
Shortly thereafter, we see names such as [[Belbin]], [[Cooper]], [[Hefford]], [[Jacobs]], [[Loder]] and [[Ryan]] entering the records.


From Wilfred Martin's books, we see that two brothers named James and John Baker lived at Sooley's Brook in the early 1870s, while it can't be identified with certainty their origin, based on records of names and dates, it appears likely they had their origins in Heart's Ease and/or Rider's Harbour.<ref>{{cite book
From Wilfred Martin's books, we see that two brothers named James and John Baker lived at Sooley's Brook in the early 1870s. While it can't be identified with certainty their origin, based on records of names and dates, it appears likely they had their origins in Heart's Ease and/or Rider's Harbour.<ref>{{cite book
  |last=Martin
  |last=Martin
  |first=Wilfred B.W.
  |first=Wilfred B.W.
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The Loders themselves appear to be the original family to actually settle in the harbour itself. John Loder, and wife Jane (Mary) Ann Smith of Elliott's Cove being the first. John was the son of Silas, a planter from Ireland's Eye.<ref>{{cite book
The Loders themselves appear to be the original family to actually settle in the harbour itself. John Loder, and wife Jane Tilley Smith of Elliott's Cove being the first. John was the son of Silas, a planter from Ireland's Eye.<ref>{{cite book
  |last=Martin
  |last=Martin
  |first=Wilfred B.W.
  |first=Wilfred B.W.
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  |first=Margot I
  |first=Margot I
  |date=2015
  |date=2015
  |website=Newfoundland Quarterly
  |website=Newfoundland & Labrador Historical Society
  |publisher=
  |publisher=The Newfoundland Historical Society
  |access-date=2021-09-19}}
  |access-date=2021-09-19}}
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| text=In addition to the church, Mona’s father and mother (sic John and Jane) helped to oversee the Congregational School in Snook’s Harbour, writing the denomination’s Training School in St John’s to secure a well-qualified teacher. This school eventually closed and a Methodist one opened in 1895.
| text=In addition to the church, Mona’s father and mother (sic John and Jane) helped to oversee the Congregational School in Snook’s Harbour, writing the denomination’s Training School in St John’s to secure a well-qualified teacher. This school eventually closed and a Methodist one opened in 1895.
|author=Margot I Duley
|author=Margot I Duley
|source=''Newfoundland Quarterly'' Volume 108 Number 3 2015/16 - Page 48
|source=''Aspects'' Volume 108 Number 3 2015/16 - Page 48
}}
}}
===Snook's Harbour Church of England School-Chapel===
A Church of England school-chapel was constructed in the Sooley's Brook/Wake's Brook area in the 1880s. Most people moved from these locations in the 1920s to Snook's Harbour proper or further afield. After leaving, the church was taken down with plans to rebuild it in Snook's Harbour, but that never happened.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Martin
|first=Wilfred B.W.
|author-link=
|year=1991
|title=Random Island and Beyond
|url=https://www.abebooks.com/9781895387049/Random-Island-beyond-Martin-Wilfred-1895387043/plp
|location=
|publisher=Creative Publishers
|pages=49
|isbn=1-895387-04-3
|chapter=Random Island Churches
}}</ref>


===Snook's Harbour Methodist/United Church===
===Snook's Harbour Methodist/United Church===
===Snook's Harbour Methodist/United Church School===
A school-chapel served the Methodist population of Snook's Harbour during the early 1900s, at which time there were plans for a combined church to be built with [[Apsey Brook]].  For whatever reason, those plans fell through, and in 1927, it was reported that the town was building a new church.<ref>{{cite book
|last=Martin
|first=Wilfred B.W.
|author-link=
|year=1991
|title=Random Island and Beyond
|url=https://www.abebooks.com/9781895387049/Random-Island-beyond-Martin-Wilfred-1895387043/plp
|location=
|publisher=Creative Publishers
|pages=38
|isbn=1-895387-04-3
|chapter=Churches of Random Island
}}</ref>
 
===Snook's Harbour School===
The Methodists opened a school-chapel in Snook's Harbour in 1895, and continued to operate a school till the 1960s.  The establishment of this later school is unknown, but expected based on the date of church construction that it was some time after 1927.


==Businesses==
==Businesses==
*[[Smith Brickyard]]
*[[Smith Brickyard]]
*[[Jane Loder's General Store]]
*[[Hefford's Store]]
*[[Hefford's Store]]
*[[Baxter Baker's Store]]
*[[Baxter Baker's Store]]
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<ref name="census1945">{{cite web |url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/C1945/45-snooks-hbr-tb-n.shtml |title=1945 Newfoundland Census for Snook's Harbour}}</ref>
<ref name="census1945">{{cite web |url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/C1945/45-snooks-hbr-tb-n.shtml |title=1945 Newfoundland Census for Snook's Harbour}}</ref>
<ref name="census1935">{{cite web |url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/C1935/35-snooks-hbr-tb.shtml |title=1935 Newfoundland Census for Snook's Harbour}}</ref>
<ref name="census1935">{{cite web |url=http://ngb.chebucto.org/C1935/35-snooks-hbr-tb.shtml |title=1935 Newfoundland Census for Snook's Harbour}}</ref>
<ref name="martin_census">{{cite book
|last=Martin
|first=Wilfred B.W.
|author-link=
|year=1990
|title=Random Island Pioneers
|url=https://www.amazon.ca/Random-Island-Pioneers/dp/0920021727
|location=
|publisher=Creative Publishers
|pages=36
|isbn=0-920021-72-7
|chapter=Settlements and Early Industries
}}</ref>
}}
}}
==External links==
==External links==
*[https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_enl/id/3799/rec/1 Snook's Harbour - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 5, p. 226.]
*[https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_enl/id/3799/rec/1 Snook's Harbour - Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador, vol. 5, p. 226.]
*[https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_decks/id/6564/rec/14 Random Island - Decks Awash, vol. 12, no. 02 (March-April 1983)]
*[https://collections.mun.ca/digital/collection/cns_decks/id/6564/rec/14 Random Island - Decks Awash, vol. 12, no. 02 (March-April 1983)]
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