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We will keep the public posted. Pictured: Two sealers with gaffs and rifles, walking on the pack ice at Harbour Grace, ca. The first Immaculate Conception Cathedral is visible; the Cathedral burned in Photo courtesy David Myrden. Special thanks to David, who mailed this photo to our Communications Officer all the way from British Columbia. View the picture in dpi here. The Conception Bay Museum is an incorporated, not-for-profit tourism and heritage organization.
Our mandate is to preserve and promote the history and culture of the Conception Bay North region. We are located in the Town of Harbour Grace and operate in close partnership with that Town. We are looking for a motivated, enthusiastic summer student to do research on a predetermined topic, under the direction of the Executive Committee and the Curator of the Conception Bay Museum. The research should result in a fully edited, written, digital presentation or paper , using a format designed by the Conception Bay Museum.
Please ensure that you meet the YCW requirements before applying. Our Board ensures Covid safety measures will be practiced and enforced. Collins, Chair, via email: pjcollins eastlink. By they had formed a partnership, Bennett and Ridley, which lasted until the late s. Ridley, having married Margaret Harrison, daughter of a well-to-do Liverpool family, was joined by her relative Thomas Harrison in the firm of Thomas Ridley and Company, with headquarters at Harbour Grace but with stores as well at Carbonear and Western Bay. In spite of the fire of , which destroyed much of Harbour Grace, Ridley built up a flourishing business.
After the death of Gilbert H. Several incidents in the s, a decade marked by enmity between fishermen and merchants, show that Thomas Ridley was especially unpopular. In the general election, Ridley was forced to withdraw as the Conservative candidate because of violence and intimidation. Then in the Conception Bay by-election of December , trying in his capacity as a magistrate to keep order, Ridley was hit over the head and nearly killed.
The times, nevertheless, were changing. From to he also sat as a member of the Executive Council. After the death of partner Gilbert H. Harrison, Thomas Harrison Ridley emerged as the most prominent member of the family. They set up a branch at Catalina, took part in the seal hunt, carried on extensive operations on the Labrador, and began to develop the winter codfishery at Rose Blanche.
In he was the first to use gas lighting, and in he was the first to use a steamship in the annual seal hunt. On February 19, , he married Ms.
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In he was the first outport merchant to use a steam vessel in the seal fishery. The following year he had two such vessels, the Retriever and the Mastiff. He resigned in to devote his time to the family firm, now facing bankruptcy.
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Three years later the firm went into receivership, the premises sold to John Munn and Company. Thomas Harrison Ridley left for England with his family including his father. He died in London in Built for Thomas Ridley Sr. Ridley Hall has historic value for its varied uses.
Sometime after its initial construction, probably in the s, a two-story frontal bay and a ballroom, the doors of which led to a series of formal English gardens, were added. The aesthetic refinement of Ridley Hall matched the glamorous events often held on the property. There was, however, a dazzling display of rank, beauty, and fashion. To describe the appearance of the room which was a temporary decorated pavilion erected for the purpose , densely occupied by many of the fairest of creation—their luxurious, yet tasteful dresses enhancing even the charm which nature had bestowed on them—their lovely eyes flashing not less lustrously than the rich chandeliers and gas lights with which the room was studded; the splendid uniforms of the military—the admixture of gravity and gaiety in the costumes of the gentlemen, et cetera—to do justice to these themes, I say, would require the aid of a more vivid imaginations than I can boast.
But the Hon. Ridley can congratulate himself on a display which it would be vain to attempt to rival. The supper, which was magnificent, both as to viands of the choicest wines of the purest vintage, was laid out in true artistic style by Monsiuer Toussaint of St. After supper the gay dance was resumed and kept up with great spirit until morning, when the company, highly delighted with the enjoyments that had been prepared for them by their kind and hospitable host, began to depart.
Darling, niece of Charles Henry Darling, former Governor of Newfoundland, Ridley held a grand reception, with a marquee tent on the lawn of the property. The ballroom addition at the rear of the house was used for this event. Daniel Gooch wrote of the party in his diary:. This occupied us until the 9th August. During this time our ship was a kind of open hotel; dozens of people came from various parts of Newfoundland and brought their bag[s] with them, quite looking upon us as a place where they might live at free quarters. They sent the Capt a present of a young Newfoundland dog, 9 months old, born in Novr The Capt gave it to me and I was very pleased to have him.
He is a beautiful pure blood Newfoundland, without a white hair upon him, and born of the same parents as the dog that was presented to the Prince of Wales. His name was given to him before I got him, it is Norval. He put up a large timber ball room and did the thing exceedingly well. I dined and slept at his house. He sent his carriage for us, or as many as it would hold.
I fancied I never saw so many good-looking women in a room together before. I am sorry to hear he is since dead; he considered himself a large farmer, having about 25 acres of land under cultivation. I scrambled about on the hills surrounding the harbour, but the thick scrub wood made it a very difficult task; but on the whole I very much enjoyed my stay there.
An apocryphal story says a former King of Spain attended a ball at Ridley Hall. The estate held such preeminence in the community that sailors traditionally saluted on passing. Ridley and Sons declared insolvency in , and in late the Ridley Hall property was advertised for sale in editions of the Harbour Grace Standard.
The property for sale was described as:.
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The house was later sold again after the disastrous Newfoundland Bank Crash of Black Monday , when trade came to an abrupt halt; unemployment and destitution became widespread after two of the commercial banks of Newfoundland closed their doors and never opened again. However, despite changes in ownership, Ridley Hall continued to be a cultural event space for the community. Blanvelt carried the exhibition over multiple days, letting people view the exhibition during the day and evening.
The house later became the property of Edward Quinton, who, in the early s, sold it to John Maddock, an English-born businessman who operated a general cash and supply business in Harbour Grace. In his retirement he spent his time looking after renovations at the Hall but put the property up for sale in Advertisements in the Evening Herald in spring describe the property as:. Freehold property, containing large frost-proof cellars and 17 rooms. Also a good Lawn and Meadow, a large Vegetable and Fruit Garden, centrally situated in the city, a good site for a hotel.
Alfred Ames subsequently purchased the property from Maddock around June In a piece in the Evening Herald on July 5, , a traveller notes that Ames had purchased Ridley Hall and was renovating it. In April Mr. Munn on behalf of the company. By terminating the western end of its cable in Newfoundland rather than Nova Scotia, the company doubled the speed of their telegraph transmissions, thus allowing twice the number of messages to be carried.
Figure 7: Landing the cable at Ridley Hall, near the former beachfront cooperage, August 3, Gothorpe was the first manager of the Harbour Grace cable station and lived there with his family.
However, Ridley Hall continued to be a place of arts and culture in its days as a cable station. For instance, the Harbour Grace Standard records how Mrs. Figure 8: Digging the underground cable to Ridley Hall, Gothrope and his family subsequently moved out to make room for the increased number of instruments required to work the extra cables.
The Harbour Grace operation was later transferred to Bay Roberts but started again at Ridley Hall in spring , under the watch of new superintendent Mr. To strengthen its control, in the British purchased Direct Cable, operators of the Harbour Grace station and the transatlantic cable. The landline arrangement between Harbour Grace and Bay Roberts was later discontinued, and Harbour Grace operated its transatlantic cable in competition with others.
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In the company transferred the eastern end of the cable from Ireland to Penzance, Cornwall, England. In the operation became part of Imperial and International Communications Company. Pierce replaced Mr. Hinton as the new operating manager of the Ridley Hall cable office. The Company later took the name Cable and Wireless Ltd in In the European terminus was transferred to nearby Porthcurno, Cornwall, England. The fire destroyed a large part of the business district and many residences in town.
The fire started about half a mile east of the cable station, but high winds carried embers for miles around. Webster and his staff, including several carpenters and soldiers employed at the building, put out the fires in and around the property. The tar roof was vulnerable to fire and was covered with lime and other fire-retardant material. The day was particularly grievous for Franklin P. Legge, who injured himself when a wall collapsed at the station; his house and possessions were also burnt.
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