I'm standing on the former site of the Harbour Dory Company in my Nova Scotia hometown.

Founded in 1874 by dory builder and barrel cooper Frederick Jacob Locke, the Harbour Dory Company built the small, flat-bottomed, yellow-painted skiffs that local fishermen used to putter around in the harbour, checking their lobster traps and the weather. Today, dory races are still popular summer festival games in the small fishing towns along Nova Scotia's South Shore.

The advent of lighter, more durable alloy hulls and faster, easier to operate outboard motors eventually rendered the wooden, oar-propelled dories obsolete, and with a decrease in demand, the Harbour Dory Co. closed its doors in 1976. The building burned to the ground in 1982, and today the Wild Shore Roses dream in soft focus where it used to stand.

A Crossfolf Camera Presentation.
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