GHOSTS - PORT UNION, NL
photograph by kathleen pickard
Port Union, on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland, is a unique place. It was, as the name implies, a union town, built with the welfare of the fishery workers as a priority. On the main road along the harbour, housing was constructed for the more senior employees, in a long row of attached red clapboard houses. Like most fishery towns in Newfoundland, Port Union has suffered a precipitous decline; but some efforts are being made to restore or at least hold back the deterioration of its special buildings. Someone, a keeper of memories, has taped photos of former residents in the windows of their abandoned homes. The snapshots of happier times, poorly reproduced and mounted behind dusty windows have a great poignance, personalizing the loss of community.
Port Union, on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland, is a unique place. It was, as the name implies, a union town, built with the welfare of the fishery workers as a priority. On the main road along the harbour, housing was constructed for the more senior employees, in a long row of attached red clapboard houses. Like most fishery towns in Newfoundland, Port Union has suffered a precipitous decline; but some efforts are being made to restore or at least hold back the deterioration of its special buildings. Someone, a keeper of memories, has taped photos of former residents in the windows of their abandoned homes. The snapshots of happier times, poorly reproduced and mounted behind dusty windows have a great poignance, personalizing the loss of community.
Also in: KATHY'S TENSET, 2016
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