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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 3269514, member: 56&quot;]The Grenfell mission was founded in 1892, but online sources say the workshops that produced these things were started in 1906.&nbsp; Doesn&#039;t mean they couldn&#039;t have been produced earlier, or outside the Grenfell sphere.&nbsp; My mother was from St. Anthony (where the mission is).&nbsp; It&#039;s possible that my great-grandmother made things like these.&nbsp; The Mission elevated St. Anthony to something more than just another outport.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the Newfoundland rug above, St Antony is the little triangle at the top of the island on the right.</p><p><br /></p><p>We drove up the east side of the island in the early &#039;60s.&nbsp; Punctured all four tires and the gas tank doing so.&nbsp; At that time you could still see the hulks of torpedoed ships in the Straights of Bell Isle (between the island and the mainland).&nbsp; They&#039;re gone now.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early &#039;60s, as a child, I bought this hand carved ivory thingy at the Grenfell Mission in St. Anthony:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]298099[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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