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This imposinq array of modern up·to.forty.passenqer.capaclty buses are six of the eiqht operated by the Avalon Bus Co. Ltd. Manaqinq Director L. J. Hennessey recaUs maklnq a start some eiqhteen years aqo, with a total equipment of one seven-passenqer Ford station waqon. Since that, he says, the country has improved considerably, and the Avalon Bus Company has kept pace. Prompt .ervice and the courtesy of sober drivers have resulted in a stream of steady customers, many of whom have travelled by the "Avalon" for years. Its main office is in KeJIiqrews, and its city stand at the corner of Lime and New Gower Streets. It maintains a daily and continuous .chedule from St. John's to Kelliqrews and Tors Cove, and, In addition, caters to thousands of holiday makers. A bus may be chartered to any point on the Avalon Peninsula. Readinq from left to riqht in the picture, are bus drivers L. Hennessey, M. Walsh, Earle Tilley, Ray Cluney, Fred Cluney, Ray Bishop.
John Guy sailed from Bristol in 1610, and settled the first colony at Cupids, and this historic landmark was erected in 1910 on the occasion of the Guy Tercentennial celebrations. At that time. New- "- loundlanders in Toronto presented Cupidl with a Union Jack measuring 40 x 32 feet and believed to be the second largest in the world. Many descendants of the first colonists live here to this day. Here, in the beautiful landlocked harbour of Cupid.. wal born the first native white child, in 1613, to Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Gore. and here lived for awhile the famous North American Indian, Squantum. I r i end of America'l Pilqrim Fathers. Cupids' early history is littered with destruction. from Devon'. antagonistic fi.h mer· chants. and from the ravaqinq. of band. of pirates who terrorized the coast in those days. A splendid shot of the early seventeenth century fishing settlement of Brigus. Note the neat but tiny Teqetable qardens. Patch.. like these are to be found allover New· foundland. and are mute evidence of the struqgle of our people to wrest food from an unyieldinq soil. Briqu. has a magnificent past. Foremost in the Beal hunt, back in the days of the sailing vel.el. her fleets at one time rivalled tho.e of St. John·B. and her port loomed large in the export of fish to foreiqn countriel. Here. was the birthplace of Captain "Bob" BarUett. world-famous Arctic explorer, and here his sisters operate the Benville Tea Rooml, an inn who.e atmosphere is the tourist's delight.
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