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- The Move
A video on the resettlement of the Rumboldt family
in 1968.
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Home  Virtual Exhibits Resettlement Deer Island
Deer Island
Deer Island (pop. 1951, 83) was one of three adjacent islands (Bragg's Island, Deer Island and Green's Island) on the north side of Bonavista Bay southeast of Trinity. Deer Island was the first settled and had a population of 36 in 1836.
All three were depended predominantly on the Labrador fishery. In 1921, for example, they sent 10 vessels to to Labrador.
The first school was built on Deer Island in the 1890s and the first church to serve the three communities was built in 1909.
The people were almost exclusively Methodist and then United Church. Deer Island was resettled between 1952 and 1955 with the main receiving areas being Glovertown, Dark Cove and Hare Bay.
From the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador
Elizabeth Feltham. Dilapidated house behind her was owned by Carrie King who left Deer Island for the U.S. after her husband was drowned in the schooner Little Jepp
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Minnie Feltham in front of a house built by Bert Feltham but never lived in. Later taken down to build a 'store'
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Deer Island United Church, built by Noah Feltham in ca. 1900. Noah was a carpenter, the Sunday school teacher and Deer Island's self-taught 'doctor'
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Job Feltham's home (father of Bert Feltham). Job Feltham sold the house for $150 to Nelson Orham in 1955, Orham tore down the house to build a cabin.
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'Popplestone rock' perched on the island's eastern edge
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Noah Feltham, Ruby (Sweetapple) Feltham, and Mary Ann Feltham (r)
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Men and women leaving the island to work on the mainland
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