Eastern Shore, Halifax County

Owls Head is located along the “Loop Road” between Clam Harbour and Ship Harbour and favoured with a deep and sheltered harbour. This has long been a fishing community, and the Hutt family of Hutt’s Hill were also known as builders of yachts and fishing boats. Pictured here are Reuben “R.B” Hutt and his son Ken, cleaning fish with Ingram Stevens. The barrels behind R.B. contain cod livers. The livers were thrown into the barrel and the sun would help warm the oil in the livers, allowing the oil to rise to the surface. The oil was dipped off the top and put into oil barrels and sold to manufacturers of cod liver oil medicine. The barrel in the foreground is called the “soak barrel”.

Date: 1938

Reference:  Eastern Shore Archives D0068P011

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