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Schooners Crowding the Starting Line

The Mona Marie (Sail No. 2) and unidentified schooner. In Lure of the Sea: Leaves from My Pictorial Log (1951), MacAskill described this image as 'Ships that pass: Here in light harbor airs the big Bank-schooners pass / one outward bound, one reaching home.'

Date: 1920

Photographer: W.R. MacAskill

Reference: W.R. MacAskill Nova Scotia Archives 20040005

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