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The Hubbard

By Ernest C. Mills

R. R. 1, 185 Hysert Road, Grimsby, Ontario, Canada L3M 4E7; e-mail: jamesmi@interlynx.net

This old "five-horse" Hubbard sat frozen in time for the past 35 years outside our woodshed in Howley, Newfoundland. It survived the worst imaginable Newfoundland weather possible, as well as all the abuse that small kids (big ones, too) could throw at it. This old Hubbard has been in our family for 40 years or more. I remember growing up around this Hubbard. We used it in our 18-foot wooden fishing boat that we used on Grand Lake, Sandy Lake, and Birchy Lake for everything from fishing, hunting, collecting firewood to just going to a beach across the lake for a picnic.

During one of my yearly back-to-Newfie trips in the fall of '96, I loaded it in the back of my pick-up truck and transported it back to my other home in Ontario for its revival.

Getting the Hubbard home ...

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