Watercolour and oil
pastel
©2019 Charlene Brown
This picturesque fishing
village, first settled in 1612, has many attractive features, including the Hawthorne Cottage - a National Historic Site of Canada, the Stone Barn Museum and the Harbour Pond shown here, neatly lined with stone walls, as are the small rivers flowing into it through a community park. But the main attraction, sometimes thought to be a
pirate cave (it really does look like it could be one, opening out to deep water from
a sheer cliff) is the Brigus Tunnel. It was built by the famous Captain Abram Bartlett
because he sometimes had trouble finding a place to park and unload his fishing
schooner in the sheltered cliff-side harbour in the right foreground. He purchased property behind the church in the upper left of the
painting, and had a 25-metre-long tunnel dug (and blasted using gunpowder) through
the ridge at the edge of the property.
So, no treasure chests full of ill-gotten gains hidden in the Brigus tunnel, but right up until about 1910 lots of fish went through. And more recently lots of tourists.
So, no treasure chests full of ill-gotten gains hidden in the Brigus tunnel, but right up until about 1910 lots of fish went through. And more recently lots of tourists.
