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===Snook's Harbour Congregational School-Chapel=== | |||
There was a Congregational school-chapel at Snook's Harbour in the 1880s. It was an outpost of a Congregational church at [[.Middle Lance Cove]].<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=22 | |||
|isbn=1-895387-04-3 | |||
|chapter=Random Island Churches | |||
}}</ref> | |||
Other sources note the dates as starting in 1878 and lasted into the early 1890s. The Loder family were lay readers at this church, and very involved with it.<ref>{{cite web | |||
|url=https://www.nlhistory.ca/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/1083-1084-Aspects.pdf | |||
|title=NURSE MARTHA ISABEL LODER (1884-1963) AND THE GREAT WAR: From Snook’s Harbour to the Somme | |||
|last=Duley | |||
|first=Margot I | |||
|date=2015 | |||
|website=Newfoundland Quartery | |||
|publisher= | |||
|access-date=2021-09-19}} | |||
</ref> | |||
{{Blockquote | |||
| 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 Martin Duley | |||
|source=''Newfoundland Quartery'' Volume 108 Number 3 2015/16 - Page 48 | |||
}} | |||
==Businesses== | ==Businesses== | ||
*[[Smith Brickyard]] | *[[Smith Brickyard]] | ||