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==History== | ==History== | ||
It is difficult to establish when exactly Snook's Harbour was first inhabited. There were at least two nearby fairly large settlements, as noted above, in addition to the harbour itself. When digging into records for the area, you sometimes see them as separate entities, but at others combined into one. | |||
People lived in the general area, all the way to Grindstone Head, but it is reasonable to assume that based on data we do have, that the original settlers in these three main areas were the [[Baker|Bakers}} in the 1870s. | |||
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 | |||
|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=194 | |||
|isbn=0-920021-72-7 | |||
|chapter=Pioneers of Present Communities | |||
}}</ref> | |||
Later we see that William Cooper, and brother Edward Cooper of [[Ireland's Eye]] settled in the harbour in the 1880s, while Elias Hefford, of New Perlican, came around the same time to sail with the Loders.<ref>{{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=195 | |||
|isbn=0-920021-72-7 | |||
|chapter=Pioneers of Present Communities | |||
}}</ref> | |||
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 | |||
|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=196 | |||
|isbn=0-920021-72-7 | |||
|chapter=Pioneers of Present Communities | |||
}}</ref> | |||
==Church & School== | ==Church & School== | ||
==Businesses== | ==Businesses== | ||