hosman are they any museums, library archives or heritage societies locally? It's amazing what they have in their collections.......h eck, even post on Craigslist or Kijiji looking for pics! You certainly wouldn't be the first. Elderly neighbors from the area with old albums or shoe boxes. The possibilities for finding are endless.
It would be so awesome to have a picture and if you had a few scrap pieces from the fence, make a frame for it.
This search for you got me going back to some sites and discussions on an old family homestead. More than 120 years of history, logging and ship building. The original family home, land and wharf were donated to the province to be used as a provincial park. The main condition being the land and wharf be kept up and preserved in perpetuity. The 300 ft wharf was built by family and local workers from trees off the land over 120 years ago. After the gov't took over they ripped away half the wharf (not to mention they leveled the house shortly after taking possession). In the last couple of years the fight has been on to save the rest of the wharf. Generations from old to very young have written and petitioned to save the last part of visible history. Last January demolition crews arrived unannounced, dismantled and carted away the remaining 150 ft. No one was given the chance to even request a piece of it.....all hand logged off family land, hewn and placed by the hands of our previous generations. Ships were built that sailed the world from that wharf and now nothing is left of it or the beach it once sheltered.
The more you can locate about your little piece of history the better.......at the rate our society is trashing our past there will soon be nothing left to help us and future generations remember.
