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medical facilities and other services. Others wanted to fish from a protectedharbour. In any case, the first family left Wild Cove in 1958 and the otherssoon followed. Most residents floated their homes to nearby Seldom, whileothers took their homes apart and then rebuilt them at another location.Wild CoveAlthough the people of Wild Cove believed that they needed to move, theywere very sad to leave the place they loved. It was hard for some olderpeople. Today, Wild Cove is still 'home' in the hearts of the people that leftmany years ago.Cape CoveCape Cove is on the northeast side of the island. It is approximately five milesfrom the community of Tilting. Irish immigrants settled in Cape Cove in theearly 1800's.All the people living in Cape Cove relied on the fishery. There were nomerchants in Cape Cove so people shipped their dried fish in Tilting. By 1901,the population in Cape Cove had reached forty-one (Encyclopedia ofNewfoundland and Labrador, I994). There was no church in Cape Cove, sopeople walked to Tilting to attend Mass.In the 1950s the government encouraged the resettlement of Cape Cove.
Cape CovePayments to those who resettled ranged from one-hundred and fifty dollars toas much as six-hundred dollars. The last person to move from Cape Covewas Mr. Albert Cluett. He left in 1957 and floated the family home to thecommunity of Tilting.Little Fogo IslandsLittle Fogo Islands is a cluster of islands to the northeast of Fogo Island.Three of the islands were settled, including the mainisland (Little Fogo Island), Eastern Island and Penton'sIsland.For about eighty years, fishermen and their familieslived on the islands year round. However, there was noprotected harbour and the islands could be difficult toaccess in the fall and winter. Rather than stay on theisland for all year, many residents decided to move tocommunities on Fogo Island.Fishing on Little Fogo Islandsin the fall. A Kinden fromIndian Islands, and aWheaton from Fredrickton.
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medical facilities and other services. Others wanted to fish from a protectedharbour. In any case, the first family left Wild Cove in 1958 and the otherssoon followed. Most residents floated their homes to nearby Seldom, whileothers took their homes apart and then rebuilt them at another location.Wild CoveAlthough the people <strong>of</strong> Wild Cove believed that they needed to move, theywere very sad to leave the place they loved. It was hard for some olderpeople. Today, Wild Cove is still 'home' in the hearts <strong>of</strong> the people that leftmany years ago.Cape CoveCape Cove is on the northeast side <strong>of</strong> the island. It is approximately five milesfrom the community <strong>of</strong> Tilting. Irish immigrants settled in Cape Cove in theearly 1800's.All the people living in Cape Cove relied on the fishery. There were nomerchants in Cape Cove so people shipped their dried fish in Tilting. By 1901,the population in Cape Cove had reached forty-one (Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong>Newfoundland and Labrador, I994). There was no church in Cape Cove, sopeople walked to Tilting to attend Mass.In the 1950s the government encouraged the resettlement <strong>of</strong> Cape Cove.
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