EPISODE 323 THREE POST CARDS … OLD PORT CREDIT HARBOUR…STONEHOOKING DAYS 1900 to 1920
alan skeoch
april 2021
WHAT a wonderful surprise. These three post cards leapt out at me when I opened Dan Boyer’s email. I could
almost step into the pictures of old Port Credit in the days of the Stonehookers. I must go down to the Credit River mouth
with my camera and stand where this photographer must have stood. Maybe Rob Leonard will beat me to it.
When would be a better time to live? 1900? 2021? Our tendency to romanticize the past will come into question when
I get around to telling the story about Liverpool Andy…a waif whose short life as a teenager on Toronto docks illustrates
the horrors of being poor and forgotten in the days when there was no social safety net . That story is coming…look for
“The short life of Liverpool Andy on the Toronto waterfront”. Meanwhile enjoy these images of the past in Port Credit, Ontario
…and thank Dan
for taking the time to find them for us all.
Alan,
I was so touched by your latest article (ie. Episode 220: Stonehooking was a brutal profession)..that I put down everything and dug out these postcards for you! Enjoy!
Dan😎🥍
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courtesy of Dan Bowyer
alan skeoch
april 2021