Wall Mural

  1. The May Queen steam ship at Scotchtown Wharf. She ran regularly between Saint John and Chipman carrying passengers and cargo.
  2. Kenneth, Allan and Eldon Hunter – 3 sons of Harold and Georgia who are pictured in photo #33
  3. Greta Palmer – on her 100th birthday
  4. Russell Hunter – working in the field with a team of horses
  5. Freda and Charlie McCoy – attending a Valentine’s Day dance in the Hall
  6. The Balmain farm – still standing
  7. Calvin Lunergan
  8. Firewood saw crew – local men worked together to cut firewood in spring for the following winter using a shared mobile saw driven by a tractor.
  9. Douglas Harbour school students L- R Dorothy Palmer, Irene Palmer, Louise Coakley, Pearl Earle, Annie Hunter Back row – Burton Hunter
  10. Benjamin Tibbits – inventor of the compound steam engine, was recognized posthumously for his invention with a marker in the Scotchtown Cemetery.
  11. Murray Coakley as a young boy on the farm. He is also found later in his life in photo 21.
  12. Dorothy Palmer and Pat Norrad Clark – local teachers. This photo taken in the Hall.
  13. The Reindeer steam ship – the first ship with Benjamin Tibbits’ compound steam engine.  Tibbitts is shown in image #10.
  14. Douglas Harbour
  15. Lorne, Herbert, Charles and Harold Briggs – 1943 in Manchester England
  16. Road grading crew – Scotchtown Road
  17. Volunteer firefighters receiving their 10 year recognition –
    Front row – Bob London, Ron Hunter, Rick Hunter, Paul Stewart
    Back row – Dwight Emberley, Clifford Stewart, Floyd West
  18. Stanley Butler – on his wood boat 
  19. Charles Coakley – in his navy uniform photographed at the Coakley farm which is the current site of Grand Lake Park
  20. Land grant map – Grand Lake west
  21. Douglas Harbour wharf construction crew – Back – Harold Post, Harry Anderson, Rupert Post, Hanford Balmain, Lloyd Hunter, Charlie Wasson, Otto MacFarlane, Earle Carle, Roy Knapp, Lawrence Clark, Murray Coakley, Chesley Hunter.  Front row – Fred Palmer, Chester Miles, Odbur Hanselpacker
  22. The Post homestead 
  23. Douglas Harbour Community Centre – sometime after World War II, as electrical power lines are in place
  24. Scotchtown school children 1924 – Back row – Herbert Church, Lily London, Jo Purves, Jean Purves, Reg Purves   Middle – Frank Church, Ruby Denton, Wendell Purves, Eltie London    Front row – Cecil Denton, Hanford Balmain
  25. Jessie Balmain
  26. Sypher’s Cove
  27. Sunnyside Beach
  28. Douglas Harbour Community Centre
  29. Coakley Farmhouse – on the current site of the Grand Lake Municipal Park (also known as Princess Park)
  30. Hunter residence – currently Bertie’s Restaurant
  31. Albright residence – Sypher’s Cove
  32. The May Queen steam ship – at Robertson’s Point. 
  33. Harol and Georgia Hunter
  34. Ruby Denton’s residence – Maquapit Lake – Ruby is also found in photo #24 as a student of the Scotchtown School in 1924.
  35. Palmer’s Store – the first store in the area
  36. Loyalist Rock – was located at Sypher’s Cove but has since fallen into the lake – posed in front is Earle Carle who is also found in photo #21
  37. Scotchtown school – the school was located at the corner of Scotchtown Rd and the Back Rd and is no longer there
  38. Bob and Ardith London’s wedding reception was held in the Hall in 1970
  39. The Purves residence – still standing on Scotchtown Rd
  40. Sypher’s Cove
  41. Douglas Harbour Volunteer firefighters – early 1980’s
  42. The May Queen steam ship at Douglas Harbour Wharf
  43. The United Church in Scotchtown – still running Sunday service to this day after 100 years
  44. Douglas Harbour Community Centre – while renovating the roof, place the building on a foundation and add the front entrance in 2007
  45. Russel and Harold Hunter with a team of horses and a sled for hauling wood
  46. Ethel and Rupert Post
  47. Douglas Harbour
  48. Russel and Harold Hunter with a team of horses named May and Queen
  49. Hunter’s Ferry Bridge – built between 1912 and 1914 – destroyed by fire 1975 – at the current site of the causeway. 
  50. Russell Hunter – with his first truck

The photos in this mural were collected from community members and represent some of the people, places and features of
the surrounding community during the 160 year life of this building.

Any corrections can be sent to dhhallsales@gmail.com