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ERIC KRAUSE
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ERIC KRAUSE GENEALOGY
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THE FISHERIES OF POINT PELEE
(A) INTRODUCTION
Fishing
The waters around Point Pelee were well known for their abundance of fish. The "pointers," as the squatters came to be known, took full advantage of this. At first their catch went mostly to fill their own needs, but later they followed the example of the Americans and began commercial fishing.
By 1891, 22 commercial fisheries were operating from the naval reserve, but many were short-lived. Ten years later, over-fishing and other environmental stresses had brought about the decline of the most marketable fish: the lake trout, whitefish, and lake herring.
[Source: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/natcul2_2_e.asp ]
... National Park Status and its Effects
At first, National Park status probably had little effect on the day-to-day lives of the naval reserve residents. Eventually it dramatically altered all the pre-Park use of the area, setting the stage for what Point Pelee has become today. For example, by the 1960s, several commercial fisheries still operated from the Park. But the government's decision to acquire private land within the Park partly to "... improve the scenic drive" drove all but the [Leita] Girardin and Krause fisheries out. In 1962, the Girardin fishery moved north of the Park. Seven years later, the Krause fishery's lease expired, and they too left. The demise of this, the last commercial fishery in the Park brought an end to an era which had lasted more than 100 years ...
[Source: http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/natcul2_4_e.asp ]
As early as 1830, some Europeans had started moving onto Point Pelee. The original settlers were fishermen ... When the land was transferred to Canada, the agreement stipulated that the rights of these squatters be recognized and protected ...
[Source: Frances Selkirk Snell, compilier, Leamington's Heritage 1874-1974, Town of Leamington, 1974, Point Pelee, pp. 178-189 ]
A gill net has attached floats along its top and weights along its bottom causing its stretched netting to stand 6- to 12-foot-high tall in a line either floating or set along the lake Erie bottom. Smaller fish swim through a netting of fine twine with openings of an approved size. Larger fish too big in their girth to swim through the netting, try to back out, but then get caught by the gills in the netting. After "pulling" the gill net to extract the fish, the fisherman either reset it, or set it in another location.
[Source: http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/nets/largegill.html ]
[Source: http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/fisheries/nets ]
A pound net has a long lead net that hangs from floats on the surface down to the bottom of Lake Erie, and two wing nets connected to an open-top heart and "pot" or pound. Posts that stick above the water surface anchored the system in place for the fishing season. Fish swam along either side of the lead net, directing them into a narrow opening between the ends of the two wing nets. The wing nets curled inward to form a heart-shaped enclosure ("heart") that ensured that the fish moved toward a tunnel into the net's pot. An open boat was then used to float into the pound after lowering one side of the net slightly; the net then gathered into the boat, and the fish then corralled into a small area and scooped up.
[Source: http://www.bobdoxsee.com/Bright%20Eye%20Items_POUND_FISHING/Bright%20Eye%20Icons%20Page.htm ]
In Leamington, a note to a " flat bottom pound boat (fishing boat used for pound net fishing) then 24 feet long" was recorded in 1899.
It had returned from a wood sawing bee in the country with my man-sized brothers (Herm & Aub Robson) and cousin Jack. We owned a flat bottom pound boat (fishing boat used for pound net fishing) then 24 feet long. We called her "The Daisy" and a daisy she was - single cat rig, tight set to the sea, fat and quick on the tiller as a gull on the wing. The toast of our shores was our Daisy - she and the two men who sailed her, Jack and Herm. It took precious time to unstow the Daisy's winter stored canvas and fit out the stripped craft ... Her great sail reefed and set, the Daisy slipped into the winter water, With a free sheet she swept out and away, like something frightened.
http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/r/o/b/George-Robson/PDFBOOK1.pdf - The Descendants of Gaven Robson by George M. Robson)
SS Pelee - http://www.chicheemaun.com/jii/french/about.html
[Source: http://content.lib.washington.edu/index.html ]
A tarred trap net likewise had a long lead net, a heart, and a tunnel leading into a pot that was later "lifted" to bring the fish to the surface. Submerged however was the heart, tunnel, and pot, and floats and anchors replaced the poles. If necessary (few or no fish), the net(s) could be "pulled" and re-set in another location in a day or less depending upon the number moved.
[Source: http://www.miseagrant.umich.edu/nets/trapnets.html ]
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(B) GENERAL CHRONOLOGY
Point Pelee in 1851
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1851- Library and Archives of Canada: ROYAL ENGINEERS OFFICE Wilkinson, John A. Wilkinson, Berdoe A. Gordon, Alexander. Canada. Point Pelee or South Foreland, Lake Erie. Plan shewing the Boundaries as marked on the ground, of the Land to be vested in the Ordnance at Point Pelèe, on Lake Erie, in the County of Essex & Township of Mersea, as surveyed by Mr. John A. Wilkinson Provl. Land Surveyor in the month of May, 1851. Microfiche Number: 16794 Ecopy Number(s): n0016794 n0016794k Call Number: H1/440/Point Pelee/1851 Record No.: 14339
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Point Pelee in 1883
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/public_mikan/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&lang=eng&rec_nbr=3670979&rec_nbr_list=2072678,3700116,3670995,3670979,3670898,2218773,880937,3523685,157540,1353860 - Plan of the naval reserve at Point Pelee in the township of Mersea shewing each of the sqatters holdings thereon - RG10M 78903/78
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Point Pelee in 1883
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Promotion, William Crosser, to be Fishery overseer on Lake Erie form [sic: from] Detroit River to Point Pelee, Actg. Min. Mar. Fish. [Acting Minister of Marine and Fisheries], 1883/05/07, recd. [recommends] |
| Order-in-Council Number: | 1883-1124 |
| Date Introduced: | 1883/05/14 |
| Date Considered: | 1883/05/19 |
| Date Approved: | 1883/05/19 |
| Reference: | RG2 , Privy Council Office , Series A-1-a, For Order in Council see volume 432 , Reel C-3344 , Access code: 90 |
| Register Number: | Series A-1-d , Volume 2767 |
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1905
1908
Number 59, Page 38: And lastly, though not least, to the various residents on the Point whose good will and kindness made our trips, if not possible, at least comfortable ; and among these especially to Mr. Albert Gardner, whose information on various birds we have found most reliable and valuable, especially in regard to the water fowl, of which it is most difficult to gather data on short and desultory trips.
Number 59, Page 50: At other times they can generally be found on the stakes of the pound nets that stretch for some distance out into the lake on both sides of the Point ..
Number 60, Page 82: About four o'clock in the afternoons, both in spring and fall, numbers of them can be seen winging their way from the marshes, where they have been spending the day, to the stakes of the pound nets off shore on either side of the Point ...
Number 60, Page 83: But it was not until Sept. 2, 1907, that we were able to remove the Night Heron from the hypothetical list when Bert Gardner brought one in that he had killed on the marsh while duck shooting.
Number 63, Page 93: One of the interesting features of the fall trip of 1907 was the unprecedented number of this species [Water-Thrushes] present. We arrived August 24, and the 26th several were noted, and the next day the species became abundant, remaining so until the 1st of September, when then; was a falling off in numbers, increasing to several the 3d and two the 4th; the species seems then to have departed. During the height of their abundance they were the most conspicuous bird on the Point, and were seen in all kinds of places, and at all times. They were in the low, damp spots in the woods, in the high walnut timber, and in the red cedar thickets. They were common everywhere. We found them in the last outlying brush pile near the end of the final sand spit, and in patches of weeds and cottonwoods along the eastern sand dune, near Grubb's fish house.
Number 64, Page 120-121: Great flocks of Swallows, Barn, Bank, Tree and Rough-winged, were congregating at the end of the Point, and the loth a flock of one hundred Martins was seen resting on the ridge of the fish house near the end of the Point.
Percy Algernon Taverner and B. H. Swales, "The Birds of Point Pelee", in Wilson Bulletin, Numbers 59-64, June, 1907-September, 1908 [All are reprints]
1918
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 22]
Point Pelee Since 1918
Since 1933, over 50% of Point Pelee's dryland habitat has been
restored.
More than 100 hectares of agricultural fields and orchards have been removed,
along with 6 commercial fisheries, 20 kilometres of roads and nearly 400
buildings.
Map of Point Pelee depicting land use before restoration ©
Parks Canada / H. Bishop, M. Smith, 2002; / G. Harvey, 2005 -
http://www.pc.gc.ca/docs/v-g/ie-ei/at-ag/sec6/page7_e.asp
1942
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 70]
(C) THE FISHERIES OF POINT PELEE
Fishing
... James Edwards settled and began fishing on the Point in the early 1840's His son-in-law William Grubb took over and by 1870 the Grubb fishery had expanded to include both the east and west sides of the Point. Natinsky, Young and Goldbaum fished consecutively from this site. Goldbaum sold his fishing rights to Olmstead around 1957. Olmstead never used Goldbaum's buildings which were later torn down by the Park.
Levi Girardin established a fishery in 1911 which was eventually run by his son Elliot, better known as Pat. Upon the unexpected death of Pat in 1936, his wife Leita took over. She managed the Girardin fishery until 1962 when she sold the fishing rights to Ribble and Grubb who operated north of the Parks gates until the death of Riel [Rile]Grubb in 1972. The Park removed the Girardin buildings in 1963.
Around 1903, Philip Girardin began fishing near Lot 15. His fishing rights were sold to McLean, then McLellan and in 1937, became the basis for the Krause fishery. John Ellis DeLaurier, brother of Charles and son of Oliver, began a fishery in the early 1900's which after changing hands several times, was also bought by Krause. Though fishing ceased from this particular site, the buildings were not removed until 1959.
Other fisheries came and went but these three were originals which remained active until the early 1960's when Park regulations forced them to relocate.
Although the government leased the lake lots to the fishermen, no agreement had been made concerning the beaches from which they were operating, therefore, all fisheries were effectively trespassing on government property. When the Park was established, legal issues needed to be clarified, so the Commissioner of National Parks offered leases to the fisheries which would include the land occupied by their buildings. The fishermen ignored the Commissioner and, in 1921, agents from the Minister of Justice were appointed to negotiate with them. The efforts were ineffectual. A final attempt to get the fishermen to lease the land on which their buildings stood failed again in 1934. This muddle continued to go unresolved until 1951 when the three remaining fisheries, Girardin, Goldbaum and Krause, were requested to obtain licenses required by National Parks Business Regulations. Krause claimed squatter's rights and the Attorney General of Canada took action against him, going to the Supreme Court of Ontario. Krause won the first judgment on this dispute in 1955. The following year, in a court of appeal, the decision was reversed in favor of the Crown. Due to overwhelming legal expenses, Krause was unable to continue the court battle. He was granted permission to work out of his buildings until a lease agreement with the park ran out in 1968. In 1969 the fishery was moved to Sturgeon Creek and the buildings were removed from the Park ...
The [Point Pelee] orchards spread out from the Tilden farm all the way up to the [William H] Krause family's fisheries [residence] ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48, 59]
"There were many pound net fishermen at that time [when Everett H. Omstead of Wheatley was about 14 years of age]. Starting from the end of the Point would be: Jimmy Grubb, McLeans', Manse Campbell, Al Long, Omsteads (of Wheatley), Bailey's, Smith and Hodgson and the Crewes' further east ..."
[Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), pp. 9-10]
ALLIED FISH CO.
Located by 1918 on the east side, Lake Pond.
[Source: Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 22]
CAMPBELL BROS. FISH AND TWINE
Located by 1918 on the east side, Lake Pond, to the south of the Allied Fish Co.
[Source: Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 22]
[Perhaps Manse Campbell - Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), p. 9]
CHAMBERS
The 1911 Census:
Chambers, Alfert http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1911a/e080/e001985788.pdf
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea, Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 1 - Point Pelee
JOHN ELLIS DELAURIER
The 1871 Federal Census:
NMC 021481, Section E3
DELAURIER, PHILIP
Sex: Male
Age: 36
Place of Birth: Ontario
Religion: Roman Catholic
Origin: FRENCH
Occupation: FISHERMAN
District: ESSEX (001)
Sub-district: Mersea (F)
Division: 2
Page: 76
Microfilm reel number: C-9889
Reference: RG31 — Statistics Canada
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http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/archivianet/020151_e.html ;
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John Ellis DELAURIER, 45, widower, fisherman, Point Pelee, same, s/o Cal--? DELAURIER & Esther ABBOTT, married Clara Amelia TESTER, 21, of Leamington, d/o Thomas TESTER & Mary COUTTS, witn: R. M. YOUNG & Mrs. N. D. KEITH, both of Leamington, 18 Sept 1900 at Leamington
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/essex00.htm
The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
John E. Delaurier, fisherman, p. 16
Philip Delaurier, fisherman, p. 16
John P. Delaurier, fisherman, p. 16
[Source: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html ]
John Ellis DeLaurier, brother of Charles and son of Oliver, began a fishery in the early 1900's which after changing hands several times, was also bought by Krause. Though fishing ceased from this particular site, the buildings were not removed until 1959 - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000, pp. 45-48.
John Ellis DeLaurier started a Fishery on Lot 9 and sold it to John Loop - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 27.
Delaurier, Charles
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086&frag=e080/e001985791&dir=1911a
- Census 1911
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 4 - Fishing
Lot 12, Point Pelee
Delaurier, John, Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea, Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Census 1911
Census 1911: John DeLaurier, Lot 30, Point Pelee - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a - Fisherman fishing - Identified as being of as the same family group as Levi Girardin and on the same Lot
JAMES EDWARDS
James Edwards settled and began fishing on the Point in the early 1840's
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
JOSEPH GIRARDIN (d. August, 1899)
When a young man he moved to Point Pelee, took up land by squatter's right, and engaged in farming and fishing. He passed the remainder of his life in that place, dying at the age of seventy-six, in August, 1899, and being buried in Point Pelee Cemetery ...
[Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families ( Toronto, J.H. Beers, 1905), p. 657] - http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=3107&qryID=7812a62b-c8a9-43a4-8924-f51b6c8db63a
Garardin - Map dated 1905
LEITA GIRARDIN
Levi Girardin established a fishery in 1911 which was eventually run by his son Elliot, better known as Pat. Upon the unexpected death of Pat in 1936, his wife Leita took over.- Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48.
Leita Girardin and Jen O'Neil show off a giant sturgeon caught in the Girardin Fisheries nets off Point Pelee c. 1940 PC/PPNP - Julie Macfie Sobol, Ken Sobol, Macfie Sobol, Lake Erie: A Pictorial History (Boston Mills Press, 2004) , p. 197 - http://books.google.com/books?id=rMccye5JhIoC&pg=PA197&dq [Note: It was a Lena Girarardin, daughter of Joseph Girardin (b. November 25, 1852, who married Louis Levingston - [Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families ( Toronto, J.H. Beers, 1905), p. 657 - http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=3107&qryID=7812a62b-c8a9-43a4-8924-f51b6c8db63a ]
In 1962, the Girardin fishery moved north of the Park. ( http://pks-intrnet-www.parkscanada.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/natcul2_4_E.asp )
Thursday, November 13, 2008, 6:26 PM [NOTE FROM KATHLEEN HAACK]
hello, i am writing to you in hope that someone somewhere knows what i am talking about!
my great grandfather built a cottage along the highway into pelee park in the 1920's, it was located near what was then called the bluebird cottages,which were located across the road with the beach access on the lake, and a small string of cottages, perhaps 3 or 4, owned by another english family named ives. as a little girl my family and i could look out from our cottage and see the commercial fishing nets out in the lake, sometimes my mother would swim all the way out to them, and oftentimes with binoculars we could watch the huge fishing boat and her crew pull in the catch of the day; the fish house was further down the road closer to the gates to the national park and the lady, if i remember this correctly, who owned the place was a german lady name leda. as a child i watched the men roll the huge boat across the beach and inside the fish house unload the catch and on the wall was a picture of leda and the crew and a huge fish which i have come to believe must have been a sturgeon. do you have any information and/or pictures of this fishery? my mother's family immigrated to brantford from houghton le spring county durham england in 1909. i now live in the north georgia mountains usa and have spent the last year developing a family history/ancestry website full of memories like this one. any help you might be able to lend would be deeply appreciated. i spent my first 20 summers at the little cottage as my mother before me did. thank you, kathleen [Photo provided by Kathleen Haack - This is a photo of her brother Dan - Regarding Ives: Possibly Bud Ives, who in October 1929 was on the life-saving crew for Point Pelee - Frances Selkirk Snell, Compilier, Leamington's Heritage, 1874-1974 (University of Toronto Press, 1974), p. 180. ]
Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:50:38 [NOTE FROM KATHLEEN HAACK]
hi eric, to make a very long story short, my great grandfather built a summer home about 2 miles back from the entrance to the park
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and i spent my first 19 summers as a beach brat at the point; wonderful memories. in front of our cottage there were fishing nets with the pole pilings and my mother would swim out to them and climb on the pilings and we would watch her through the binocs. as a very small girl we would go to the fish house just inside the park and i have wonderful memories of it. i am forwarding an email i sent not long ago to inquire about it, i do ancestry work and when i googled the subject your story came up. if you have any info about the place or it rings a bell and you know where i might go for more info please let me know. really enjoyed your site. sincerely kathleen
hi eric me again, i found a painting that holds the key to a memory of the men moving the fishing boat over the sand on rollers down and up from the lake, also one of the earliest known photos of the point. k
Hi Eric
I just talked to Rib and Leita Girardin was Grandma Ribbles's sister and she was a Campbell and very scotch !!! The rolling of the boat itself into the fish house to unload fish Dennis says the boat was pulled on shore on rollers and loaded onto a company truck and taken to the fishery. He remembers Bluebird Cottages but I am going to e-mail Carlene to see if she remembers. Den does not remember the Ives but he remembers the rest.
hi eric thank you again for the information; in my child's mind leita became leda and she became german because my dad was and he loved the fish house and fishing and pickerel fish fry for dinner. leita was one of my first "strong women" role models and fishing has been a major part of my life to this day. i was an infant when the family first started taking me to watch the process at the fishery and if i am remembering this part right we used to buy fresh fish wrapped in butcher paper tied with string as they were cleaning them and weighing them out on silver coloured metal scales. they floor was, i think, made of cement and almost always wet. this is so exciting! k
hi eric, i remember her presence was very strong. the picture is one, if my mind is remembering this right, that was hanging on the wall at the place. what a gift!! THANK YOU. k
- [Picture referred to is: Leta Girardin and Jen O'Neil show off a giant sturgeon caught in the Girardin Fisheries nets off Point Pelee c. 1940 Photo - http://books.google.com/books?id=rMccye5JhIoC&pg=PA197&dq ]
Hi Eric:
Dennis and Shirley passed this on to me, so I'll give you what I know.
Aunt Leita wasn't German to my knowledge. Her maiden name was Campbell, she was my grandma Ribble's sister. She died about 1985 or so, as far as I can remember. I know where her grave is and can check the date if you need it. The rolling of the boat into the water was done by a winch and pulley system around a tree from what I can remember. Being the youngest of the Ribble clan, I didn't see
it as much as Dennis and Pat and Carlene.
Aunt Leita's daughter is still alive and full of information if you need anything else. Her name is Mary Jane Barnet and her phone number is ..... She had an active role in the fishery prior to Aunt Leita's retirement and my dad's subsequent running of the business.
Hope this helps.
Mark Ribble [Eric: There may be early photos of Mary Jane: See St. Thomas Times Journal , 7 May 1949, Second Section, page 20, Alma College Queen of the May and Attendants - Miss Mary Jan Girardin, daughter of Mrs Leita Girardin; See also 23 May 1949 Second Section, page 10, May Day at Alma College - Mary Jane Girardin http://www.elginogs.ca/newsindexes/timesjournal/sttj1949aprthrujune.htm ]
More Research is fun !!! A little note from Carlene. Also, Aunt Leita's daughter is Mary Jane Barrnett and is still alive. Shirl -----
Hi Shirley.. Aunt Leita Girardin was married to Elliot (known as Pat). He died in 1936 and Aunt Leita took over the fishing business, where dad worked until 1962 when Aunt Leita retired and the park took over her fishing buildings.... dad then built the fishery on the other property close to our house (along with Mick Grubb). Joseph Girardin born Nov 25 1852 was the son of Francis Girardin and Susan DeLaurier. Levi Girardin actually established the fishery in 1911 eventually being run by Elliott who had a nervous break down (I believe) and then Aunt Leita took over the business. Carlene
Shirley the manchesters live in the big house where the cottages used to be also sov may have some information on this Pat
No problem at all Eric. I've attached a picture
that ran on the front page of the Leamington Shopper back in May, 2008. It is Elliott Girardin, in 1935, standing at the edge of point pelee drive with a sturgeon. The fish weighed 182 lbs and measured 7'7" according to Mary Jane Barnet, his daughter. The house in the background looks a lot like the big white house that used to be just north of Mick Grubb's place. Mark
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On http://www.ancestry.com/ are the following Girardins who are identified as born at Point Pelee:
Name: Alex Girardin Birth: 1915 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 1918 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Barbara Susan Girardin Birth: 13 Jul 1907 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Charles Robert Girardin Birth: 1923 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 31 Jul 1986 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Name: Eva Louisia May Girardin Birth: 31 Jan 1904 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 10 Dec 1980 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Name: Everett Girardin Birth: 10 Oct 1917 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 14 Feb 1980 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada OR Name: Harry Everett Girardin Birth: 10 Oct 1917 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 14 Feb 1983 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Name: George Harvey Girardin Birth: 07 Aug 1911 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 10 Oct 1981 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Name: George Maxon Girardin Birth: 12 Dec 1867 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 13 Jul 1948 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada OR Name: George Maxon Girardin Birth: 12 Dec 1867 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 1948 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Grace Elizabeth Girardin Birth: 20 Feb 1910 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Joseph A. Girardin Birth: 25 Nov 1851 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 06 Jun 1941 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada OR Name: Joseph Girardin Birth: 25 Nov 1852 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada Death: 04 Jun 1941 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada.
Name: Olive Girardin Birth: 30 Jan 1888 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 22 Feb 1937
Name: Pearl Victoria Girardin Birth: 22 Aug 1902 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Theres Girardin Birth: 28 Nov 1855 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 25 Mar 1939 - Leamington, Ontario, Canada
Name: Thomas William Girardin Birth: 29 Oct 1905 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada
Name: Willard Charles Girardin Birth: 04 Dec 1890 - Point Pelee, Ontario, Canada; Death: 30 Oct 1918 - Essex, Ontario, Canada
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The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
Francis Girardin, fisherman, p. 16
Fredrick Girardin, fisherman, p. 16
Angus Girardin, fisherman, p.16
George M. Girardin, fisherman, p. 17
[Source: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html ]
1962 - The Girardin Fishery - The End of the Fisheries at the Point
[http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/natcul2_4_e.asp ]
LEVI GIRARDIN
Levi Girardin established a fishery in 1911. - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48.
Levi Girardin owns Lot 20 and runs a fishery there with his son Pat. - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p 28.
Girardin, Leui
http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1911/pdf/e001985792.pdf
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing
Census 1901: Girardin Levi J., Male, Head, Married, born Jun 22 1867, age 34 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=50651&highlight=45&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Levi+J.+Girardin
Census 1911: Levi Girardin, Lot 30, Point Pelee - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a - Fisherman fishing
Census 1911: John DeLaurier, Lot 30, Point Pelee - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a - Fisherman fishing - Identified as being of as the same family group as Levi Girardin and on the same Lot
Lees?, Stanley -
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89088&frag=e080/e001985793&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 6 - Fisherman Fishing
- Living with Levi Girardin or John DeLaurier
[ELLIOT] PAT GIRARDIN
Levi Girardin established a fishery in 1911 which was eventually run by his son Elliot, better known as Pat. Upon the unexpected death of Pat in 1936, his wife Leita took over.- Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48.
Census 1901: Girardin Elliot J., Male, Son, Single, Born Oct 1 1895, Age 5 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=50651&highlight=45&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Levi+J.+Girardin
Census 1911: Girardin Elliott, Male, Son, Single, Born Oct 1895, Age 15 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/View.jsp?id=89087&highlight=48&desc=1911+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Elliott+Girardin
PHILIP GIRARDIN
Around 1903, Philip Girardin began fishing near Lot 15.
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086&frag=e080/e001985791&dir=1911a - 1911 Census
Lot 15, Point Pelee
GOLDBAUM
Goldbaum ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
JAMES GRUBB [JIM OR JIMMY GRUBB]
[Grubb, James W.
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89083&frag=e080/e001985788&dir=1911a
- Census 1911
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 1 - Fishing]
Lots 2 & 4 are now managed by James Grubb - Williams son of course. Jim Grubb married Flossie Mooney 1909 and they run a fishery on both the east and west sides of the Point ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 27.
[In the 1940s] Tom Epplett, a former employee of the James Grubb fisheries at Point Pelee, was a partner in the Epplett family firm ...
[Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), p. 5]
WILLIAM A GRUBB
SR. (b. March 2, 1850)
William Grubb took over and by 1870 the Grubb fishery had expanded to include both the east and west sides of the Point - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48.
Grubb's Fish House - Map dated 1905
Grubb's fish house East Side, picture dated 1906 - Henrietta O'Neill, Birding at Point Pelee: A Birder's History of One of Canada's Most Famous Birding Spots (James Lorimer & Company, 2006), p. 26. - "On the return trip, about opposite Grubb's fish house on the East shore ..." http://books.google.com/books?id=9aILzHAirCgC&pg=PA26&dq=%22Grubb%27s+fish+house%22
When he was sixteen years of age, he left home to make his own way in the world, crossing to Pelee Island, in search of employment. Here he found work on a fishing-boat belonging to Thomas and Arthur McCormick, and was engaged at wages of $20 a month during the busy season. His winters were spent in cutting wood and in other work. After three years he embarked in fishing on his own account, coming then to Point Pelee, where he followed this industry for five years, buying his own fishing ground and finding his market in Sandusky, Ohio. This business he still continues, now on a large scale with the assistance of his three sons, operating seventeen fish pounds. The products of this large fishery are contracted for by Post & Co of Sandusky, Ohio, with whom Mr. Grubb has had business dealings for thirty-two years ... [Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families ( Toronto, J.H. Beers, 1905), p. 580 - http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=3107&qryID=7812a62b-c8a9-43a4-8924-f51b6c8db63a]
[United States, v. Post Fish Co., (Nos. 1167 and 1212) Fish from the Canadian waters of lake Erie. In all essentials the equipment put in place by the importer in the Canadian ... From the testimony produced at the hearing by the importers it appears that the Post Fish Co. is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Ohio. The corporation is engaged in the business of catching fish off Pelee Point in the Canadian waters ... state of facts, which was met by the Government by no competent evidence to the contrary, warranted, we think, a finding that the stakes, nets, pounds, fishing gear, tackle, and other essentials for the taking of fish established by the Post Fish Co. on both sides of Pelee Point were either wholly the property of the Post Co. ... Treasury decisions under the customs, internal revenue, industrial alcohol ... United States. Dept. of the Treasury, United States. Customs Court, United States. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Volume 26, 1914, pp. 261-263] See also: Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. 1915, New York Times, May 2, 1914 and The Evening Independent, Aug 10, 1936 (Joseph Wright Post of the Post Fish Company). The original owner was Halsey C. Post, who founded the company in 1856. His Company operated out of Sandusky and Cleveland in 1914]
The children born to Mr. and Mrs. Grubb were: James Walter, born Nov. 24, 1873, who is engaged in operating three fish pounds, makes his home with his parents; William A., born Jan. 6, 1875, who operates six fish pounds ... [Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families ( Toronto, J.H. Beers, 1905), p. 581 - http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=3107&qryID=7812a62b-c8a9-43a4-8924-f51b6c8db63a]
Grubb, William
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fisherman
Stevenson, George
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing - Living
with William Grubb
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http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a - Censu 1911
IVES ?
The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
Peter Ives, fisherman, p. 15
[Source: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html . See also: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/District.jsp?id=60 ]
The 1911 Census, Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea, Sub-district Number: 24
Ives, William, fisherman - Works for Self, Page 6
[Source: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89071 - Census 1911]
WILLIAM KRAUSE AND SONS FISHERIES (1938-1969)
West Side of Point Pelee Fishery
William Krause and Sons Fishery
INTRODUCTION
Karl Rudy Krause recalls that the his father first purchased the license of McLellan and then further north that of Sid Tilbury where they operated their Fishery until 1969.
At first, the Krauses - William, and sons Bill and Rudy- fished using pound net technology. Here, at the beginning of the season, using a pile driver, they drove stakes into the lake bottom. They then suspended lines and nets from them. The fish caught were of higher quality than those (often dead or even rotting) caught in gill nets, as they were kept alive in the "pound" of the net. When they emptied the pound using hand dip nets, they immediately placed the live fish on ice.
Fy Henry - 1947
(Photo Supplied by Alisa Krause (McClurg))
In the 1950's the Krauses adopted a trap net technology (deploying anchors rather than stakes) using nets of another's design. Increasingly, they employed traps which Bill Krause refined through redesign and trial and error. These traps proved superior to any others in catching and holding superiority. Bill also experimented with many treatments to increase netting longevity. Although others turned to trap nets for mainly catching smelt, the Krauses proved that their nets could trap any fish in great quantities.
Bill Krause also experimented with "trawling" with a technology also of his own design. Wooden planks called otter doors helped to keep the mouth of the net open while being towed behind the boat. Though trawling also proved successful, it nevertheless was inferior to trap netting, and the Krauses quickly dropped its use.
The Krause sons also built a number of steel trap boats, of great power, of their own design, with, on board, technology current to the period.
Bill Krause, 1967, lifting the trap pot of the trap net to the surface. The boxes of ice are out of sight.
http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/687829.jpg - Photo by Rein Nomm
- After a severe storm with the Krause Fisheries dock destroyed.
The last vertical post to the right is what is left of one of two posts that
held an old reel
for power washing the nets reeled off the boat onto a truck on the dock.
Bill Krause also invented a mechanical fish filleting machine which, though often finicky, was a wonder to behold and be heard in operation.
H. William (Bill) Krause and a part of the said machine in the back of the truck.
To the rear, our Point Pelee house that Dad built and we occupied in c. 1948. (Photo Supplied by Alisa Krause (McClurg))In his younger days on Point Pelee, Eric Krause participated in all operations of the physical Fishery where the work was hard, but rewarding, both in being and spirit.
Fresh sturgeon steak, and salted black caviar produced by the hands of my father - nothing tasted better
except for the mounds of fried - lightly battered - trap-net perch that my mother slaved over the stove for us growing boys! That is, when we weren't wolfing down fried-in-butter cottage cheese verenike by the dozen.
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1965
No doubt this was payment when my father went to Cape Breton, working out of Point Alder, to demonstrate the use of trap-nets in the ocean.
Public Accounts of Canada, By Canada Dept. of Finance, Published 1966 - Technicians fees ... William Krause Point Pelee Ont $3700 ... p. 1
1969
Krause Fishery - The End of all the fisheries at the Point
[http://www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/on/pelee/natcul/natcul2_4_e.asp ]
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POST 1969
OUTSIDE THE POINT, AT STURGEON CREEK
F. W. Krause and Sons Fisheries
Rudy Krause and record catch
Drum beats record By JIM Este
LEAMINGTON - A Canadian fish record was broken last week when the Krause
Fisheries firm pulled in a 30.5-pound fresh water Drum in its trap nets ...
Krause Fisheries Inc.
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http://www.choosewindsoressex.com/locate_expand/directory/display.cfm?id=350 - 2009 Description
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I have a big problem with this as the net guage [sic] is not species specific. All manner of game fish and fish with no market value are trapped, killed and tossed back to waste. Also, the fish may sit dead for some time till they're harvested.
Trap Nets: This is a maze arrangement where the fish swim up a "hallway" and are later scooped out live. I don't know how many trap netters are left, but if you find one, love him. The last ones I knew of were Krause Fisheries in Leamington and Lidddels out of Pelee Island.
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Hy-Lite Powerboats Inc. was incorporated in 1995 as an independent entity associated with 734126 Ontario Limited (o/a Tug Weld Manufacturing) for the purpose of marketing a line of custom built aluminum-hull, high performance, offshore type powerboats.
The parent company, commercially known as "Tug Weld" or "TWM" was established in 1982 for the purpose of manufacturing and repairing marine vessels and equipment on the Great Lakes (primarily Erie and St. Clair). Between 1985 and 1988, five fishing tugs were totally re-engineered, re-built and enlarged. They were the BM CABREIL for Cabreil Fisheries, the MISTY JEAN for Church Fisheries, the A.R. GETTY for Getty Fisheries,the GL SIMMONS for Simmons Fisheries and the LADY K for Krause Fisheries. In addition, the 65 ft. CRYSTAL BLUE was designed and manufactured for Murray Collard Fisheries of Wheatley, Ontario ...
1976
of Wm. Krause & Sons Fisheries, of Point Pelee, are reported preparing their nets for the Spring fishery by treating them with a new asphalt compound. Rudy Krause said the treatment is quick-drying and non-sticking. The nets are made of nylon and the treatment gives them body and a black color ...
[Canadian fisherman & ocean science, Volume 58, Issues 1-4, 1976, p. 19]
1984
Michigan Academician By Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Published by Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters., 1984
and to Krause Fisheries, Pt. Pelee, for supplying sturgeon specimens for dissection ... p. 102.
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POINT PELEE FISHERIES - KRAUSE REFERENCES
Pelee Island (41°47', 82°40'). Many lake sturgeon were caught around the island in early May and June, and spawning was believed to occur here (Rathbun and Wakeham 1897). Point Pelee (41°55', over hard clay, gravel or 1954; Rathbun and Wakeham at the point in June, but OE-2 Rondeau Harbour (42°15', 81°53') ... p. 6
HERRING Lake herring migrated from the deeper waters of the eastern portion of the lake, such as the deep hole off Long Point (42°33', 80°10’), to spawn in shallow water in the western basin (Hile, pers. comm. 1979; Langlois 1948, 1954; Moore 1894; Rathbun and Wakeham 1897; Scott 1951; Trautman, pers. comm. 1979; Wickliff 1936). It was also hypothesized, however, that herring did not migrate from one end of the lake to the other but that the stock was composed of several races (Koelz 1926). Historically, the run began on the Canadian shore near Rondeau (42°15’, 81°53’) and was more pronounced along the shores west of Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30’) and Vermilion (41 °26’, 82°22’). The run along the southern shore of the central basin was believed to be ill-defined, because it was so obstructed by gillnets that the fish had to move along the Canadian shore until deflected southward by Point Pelee (Rathbun and Wakeham 1897). A part of the run continued south to Kelleys Island (41°36’, 82°42'), Huron (41°24', 82°33'), and Vermilion; another portion passed around Point Pelee and spread out over the area west of the islands (Moore 1894). A large number also moved up into the Detroit River ... p. 24
WHITEFISH Historically, on about the first of October, lake whitefish began to migrate from the eastern basin of Lake Erie along both the north and south shores to the rocky shoals at the western end of the lake to spawn (Cole 1905; Downing 1904, 1910; Ferguson 1957; Kerr and Kerr 1860-1898; Kumlien and True 1887; Leach 1923; Milner 1874b; Moore 1894; Rathbun and Wakeham 1897; Smith and Snell 1891; Trautman 1957; Wright 1955). Lake whitefish are believed to have moved clockwise around the lake on their spawning migration, often passing to the west through the islands area and back along the Canadian shore (Wolfert, pers. comm. 1979). Lake whitefish passed through the western basin and into the Detroit River and, until the early 1900s, into Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River to spawn; they returned via Pigeon Bay (42°00', 82°40') which borders Point Pelee on the west (Kerr and Kerr 1860-1898; Keyes 1894; Milner 1874c; MSBFC 1887, 1895; Reighard 1910; Trautman 1957). In Lake Erie, lake whitefish spawned for 18-60 days in late October to December when temperatures were generally 43-53°F (Fish 1929; Kerr 1874; Klippart 1877; Koelz 1929; Langlois 1945b, 1954; Milner 1874a; Price 1940; Rathbun and Wakeham 1897; Stockwell 1875a; Van Oosten and Hile 1949; Wickliff 1928b, 1933a, 1936, 1957; Wickliff and Miller 1929). Spawning usually does not begin until the temperature drops to at least 46°F (Lawler 1965) ... p. 28
Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). Much of the remnant lake whitefish population spawns at Point Pelee (Ferguson 1957) ... p. 34
COHO SALMON In 1933, coho salmon fingerlings were stocked in Pickerel (41°26', 82°57') and Cold (41°27', 82°46') creeks, tributaries of Sandusky Bay; these plantings were unsuccessful (Parsons 1973). Annual plantings began in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York waters of Lake Erie in 1969 and in Michigan waters in 1974 (GLFC 1973a,b, 1975, 1976, 1978 in press; NYDEC 1977a; ODNR, undated). Spawning runs have developed in several tributaries, -primarily in the eastern and central basins, but little natural reproduction occurs. Significant numbers of coho salmon are observed during September of each year, when they school near stream mouths (Shea 1972). An annual clockwise migration occurs between the eastern and central basins. In January and February, juvenile coho salmon concentrate near warm water discharges at Lorain (41°28', 82°11') and Cleveland (41°30', 81°43'), in May-August they concentrate between Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30') and Port Stanley (42°39', 81°13'), and in September and October, as adults, they move back to their home streams (Baker and Scholl 1971c; Shea 1972). Spawning runs enter a number of Lake Erie tributaries ... p. 35
CHINOOK SALMON In 1873-80, chinook salmon fry were planted in Ohio tributaries to Lake Erie, mainly in the Maumee River, and also in five Michigan tributaries. In 1933, yearlings were planted in Pickerel (41°26’, 82°57’) and Cold (41°27’, 82°46’) creeks, tributaries of Sandusky Bay; only one survivor was reported (Parsons 1973). Plantings resumed in Ohio Waters in 1970, and were begun in Pennsylvania waters in 1971, and in Michigan and New York waters in 1973 (GLFC 1973a, 1975, 1976, 1978 in press; NYDEC 1977a). Spawning runs have developed in several tributaries, primarily in the eastern and central basins, but little natural reproduction occurs. Significant numbers of chinook salmon are observed in September when they school near stream mouths (Shea 1972). An annual clockwise migration occurs between the eastern and central basins. In January and February chinook salmon concentrate near warm water discharges at Lorain (41°28’, 82°11') and Cleveland (41°30’, 81°43’), in May to August they concentrate between Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30') and Port Stanley (42°39', 81°13’), and in September and October, they move back to home streams (Shea 1972). Spawning runs enter a number of Lake Erie tributaries ... p. 38
[Lake Trout] Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30') and Pelee Island (41°47', 82°40'). Rocky areas at the point and on the east side of the island may have provided limited spawning habitat (Moenig, undated) ... p. 47.
RAINBOW SMELT Rainbow smelt eggs planted in Crystal Lake (44°40', 86°10'), Michigan, in 1912 are believed to be the source of rainbow smelt found in all of the Great Lakes, except Lake Ontario. The first reported capture of smelt in Lake Erie occurred in 1935 at Port Dover (42°47', 80°12'), Ontario (Van Oosten 1937a). The first spawning run in Lake Erie occurred in 1940 in a drainage ditch west of Blenheim (42°18', 82°00'), Ontario (Roseborough 1962). Most of the successful spawning in Lake Erie occurs on sandy shoals along the Canadian shore (Applegate and Van Meter 1970; Scott 1967; Slastenenko 1958; USBCF 1966). Adults move inshore and into streams in late March and early April and move back to deeper waters just after spawning (FWS 1979d). The western basin has few streams suitable for spawning, and, along the north shore, runs do not occur west of Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30') (Ferguson 1955; Regier 1963). Some rainbow smelt migrate into the western basin in the fall, spawn there in the spring, and then return to the central basin. Small concentrations of eggs have been recovered throughout the western basin on mud bottom; these eggs may have been spawned elsewhere on sandy bottom, which is the preferred spawning substrate in Lake Erie (Wolfert, pers. comm. 1979). Most hatching occurs May 1-15 at 50°F (Comm. Fish. Rev. 1961a) ... p. 48
Ontario The first smelt spawning run in Lake Erie occurred along the Canadian shore of the central basin in 1940 in a tributary west of Blenheim (42°18', 82°00') (Roseborough 1962). In the early 1940s, spawning occurred at Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). Egg collections have documented spawning along the entire northern shore of the central and eastern basins (Ferguson 1954; Regier 1963). Most spawning occurs on beaches and shoals in 10 ft or less of water. Few stream spawning populations remain, although runs also enter certain unpolluted and unobstructed tributaries (Applegate and Van Meter 1970; Ferguson 1954; USBCF 1966; USDI 1967). Rainbow smelt apparently prefer to spawn in smaller streams that have barrier bars or riffles near the mouth. They also spawn on gravel or bedrock along the north shore off Long Point (42°33', 80°10') and at Morgans Point (42°51', 79°21'), where there are strong currents (Regier 1963). Spawning runs usually occur in April or early May (Berst 1954; MacCallum and Regier 1970; Mahon, pers. comm. 1979; Nsembukya-Katuramu 1978; Regier 1963). Usually the spawning run begins at Point Pelee about the middle of April and lasts approximately 2 weeks; peak spawning occurs at 38-41°F. Subsequent runs follow the shore east of Point Pelee; spawning runs occur in the eastern basin about 2 weeks later than at Point Pelee (MacCallum and Regier 1970; Regier 1963). It has also been reported, however, that the spawning peaks occur throughout the lake at about the same time (late April) and that there is no progression from one end to the other (Berst 1954; Ferguson 1954, 1955). Along the Canadian shore, YOY inhabit the inshore waters in the spring (MacCallum and Regier 1970). Fry are very abundant inshore at depths of 20 ft during mid-summer; they begin moving offshore in late summer (Ferguson 1965; Chen 1970). In 1962, YOY moved offshore from the spawning areas in the central and eastern basins and were collected by June in waters as deep as 50 ft (MacCallum and Regier 1970). OE-1 Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). Spawning aggregations occur in 10 ft or less of water; spawning occurs on the current-swept beaches in April and early May (Regier 1962, 1963; Thomasson 1963). Point Pelee has large spawning runs in April, which usually last for 2 weeks (Ann Arbor News 1979b; Environ. Can. 1977a; MacCallum and Regier 1970; Regier 1962). The largest runs occurred during the late 1950s (Krause 1967). In 1959, spawning runs occurred at Point Pelee Park (41°58', 82°32') and the Learnington Dock (42°01', 82°36') in April (Roseborough 1962). Eggs were collected on the gravel bar that extends south off the tip of the point. Most eggs were deposited in water less than 10 ft deep in an area that extended at least 2,000 ft out from the tip of the point (Regier 1962). Until approximately 1944, major runs occurred in Sturgeon Creek (42°01', 82°34') (Ferguson 1954, 1955). Fry are abundant along the point during the summer (Ferguson 1955). In 1962, YOY were collected near Point Pelee; ... p. 54
[EMERALD SHINER] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). In 1975, YOY were captured in beach seines off the west beach of Point Pelee (Paine 1976). ... p. 82
[COMMON SHINER ] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). In 1929, one larva was found in the lake south of Point Pelee and east of Pelee Island (41°47', 82°40') on June 19 (Fish 1932). ... p. 83.
[SAND SHINER] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). In 1929, larvae and postlarvae were abundant around Point Pelee in August (Fish 1932). ... p. 89
[WHITE BASS] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). The shoals along the entire shoreline of the point are important spawning areas (Environ. Can. 1977a). Young- of-the-year were collected on the northwest beach on the point (Paine 1976). ... p. 135.
[SUN FISH] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). The marshes of Point Pelee National Park (41°58', 82°32') are important spawning areas (Environ. Can. 1977a). ... p. 141.
[BLACK BASS] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). The marshes of Point Pelee National Park (41°58', 82°32') are important spawning areas (Environ. Can. 1977a). ... p. 150.
[WALLEYE ] ... Point Pelee (41°55', 82°30'). The entire shoreline of Point Pelee National Park (41°58', 82°32' ) is a spawning area (Environ. Can. 1977a). Until recently, large numbers of ripe walleyes moved onto the reefs off the point and onto the gravel and sand areas along the west shore (Julien 1967; Krause 1967; Tiessen 1967); by about 1950, these areas were degraded by domestic and cannery wastes from Leamington (42°01', 82°36') and neighboring towns (Regier et al. 1969). In the spring, adults were first taken by fishermen about 15 mi SE of Point Pelee; the fish then moved towards the shore areas of Pelee Island (41°47', 82°40') and Point Pelee (Krause 1967). ... p. 183.
[http://www.scribd.com/doc/1589902/USGS-volume09 - USGS: volume 09 - C.D. Goodyear, Atlas of Spawning and Nursery Areas of Great Lakes Fishes, Volume IX, Lake Erie, September, 1982. - Krause, W., Jr. 1967. Notes of interview conducted by H. A. Regier, June 9.]
JOHN LOOP
John Ellis DeLaurier started a Fishery on Lot 9 and sold it to John Loop - Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), p. 27.
JOSEPH LOOP (b. October 20, 1839 -d. ),
HENRY LOOP
IRA LOOP
JOE LOOP
He then entered the fishing industry, with his brothers Henry and Ira, locating first at Point Pelee, where they operated one pound, and later at Kingsville, where they had three pounds. This business was continued for foourteen years, the brothers supplying both wholesale and retail dealers in Detroit and adjoining areas ...[Joseph leaves fishing] ... His fondness for the water soon drew him back to the fishing business, and he established himself on thge east shore of Point Pele, beginning with one pound, and finally controlling four. He spent ten years in this industry, and then sold out to Frederick Kline, of Sandusky ...
[Commemorative biographical record of the county of Essex, Ontario : containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settled families ( Toronto, J.H. Beers, 1905), pp. 316-317 - http://www.ourroots.ca/toc.aspx?id=3107&qryID=7812a62b-c8a9-43a4-8924-f51b6c8db63a]
Loop Jr. and Loop Sr.
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The Loop Fishery
The loop name has been well-established in the fishing industry of Wheatley and the Point Pelee area for over a century ...
Family historical records note that Benjamin Franklin Loop was a resident of New Yoek State during the American Revolution. His desire to remain loyal to the King compelled him to move to Canada and eventually to settle at Point Pelee. His three sons, Henty, Ira, and Joe, engaged in pound net fishing in the Point Pelee and Kingsville areas of Lake Erie ...
[Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), p. 16]
MCLEAN
Philip Girardin sold his fishing rights to McLean.
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
Future research: http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/ms/page43262.html - The Historical Collections of the Great Lakes - seven microfilm reels of records for the McLean Brothers Fisheries Company in Wheatley, Ontario - documents the activities of a Canadian Lake Erie fishing company for the years 1908-1960.
HAROLD "MAC' MCLELLAN
... Philip Girardin [sold] His fishing rights ... to McLean, then McLellan and in 1937, became the basis for the Krause fishery ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
McClellan Fishery
Harold "Mac" McClellan began fishing in the 1920's, when employed by James W. Grubb at Point Pelee ...
"Mac" worked for a number of years at the Grubb fishery ...
In 1937, "Mac" having operated his own fishery for a number of years, sold his business to William Krause of Point Pelee, and moved to Wheatley ...
[Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), p. 16]
MOONEY
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The 1911 Census:
Mooney, Ira http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1911a/e080/e001985788.pdf
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea, Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 1 - Point PeleeMooney, Henry http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/1911a/e080/e001985788.pdf
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea, Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 1 - Point Pelee
NATINSKY
Natinsky ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
OLMSTEAD
Olmstead bought Goldbaum license but never used the buildings.
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
ADAM OPER
In June 1898 Adam Oper was a well-known Point Pelee frisherman.
[Karen Adamson (editor), Open Boats - A Historical Sketch of Commercial Fishing in Wheatley - Ontario (Published after 1979), p. 2]
The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
Oper Adam, Male, Head, Married, born Sep 22 1849, age 51 - http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/View.jsp?id=50638&highlight=3&desc=1901+Census+of+Canada+page+containing+Adam+Oper
CARL RIBBLE AND MIC GRUBB [RIEL OR RILE GRUB]
Leita Girardin sold the fishing rights in 1962 to Ribble and Grubb who operated north of the Parks gates until the death of Riel [Rile] Grubb in 1972.
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
NOTE: Riel Hillier Grubb, Birth: 02 Jan 1911, Point Pelee, Mersea Tp, Essex, Ontario, Canada Death: 17 Sep 1972, Point Pelee, Mersea Tp, Essex, Ontario, Canada Parents: James Grubb and Sarah Mooney (1) - http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Family:Riel_Grubb_and_Evelyn_Musson_%281%29
ROBSON ?
The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
Inice Robson, fisherman, p. 16
[Source: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html . See also: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/District.jsp?id=60 ]
SID TILBURY AND SMITH
Karl Rudy Krause recalls that the his father first purchased the license of McLellan and then further north that of Sid Tilbury where they operated their Fishery until 1969.
Edwin HAROLD Stockton (January 26, 1917 - who did a lot of work for Krause Fisheries) of Wheatley (The Meadows of Wheatley - 2009) recalls that the owners were Tilbury and Smith
A Sidney Tilbury, age 17, according to the 1911 Canada Census was living with the Thomas Wigle family In Essex South, 17 Gosfield South, was single, a Thomas John Barnardo Home Boy, from England, born in July 1893 who arrived in 1902 and was a laborer. In 1901, a home child, named Sidney Tilbury, age 10, arrived in Dr. Barnardo's party, in Quebec. Accordingly, 239 went to Toronto, 68 went to Winnipeg, 20 went to Russell, Manitoba and 3 went to Peterborough, Ontario.
"Tilbery Fish[ery]"
YOUNG
Young ...
[Henrietta O'Neill, In Search of a Heart (Friends of Point Pelee, 2000), pp. 45-48]
Young, George http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a - 1911 Census
Lot 9, Point Pelee, farmer
WILKINSON ?
The 1901 Census, Sub district Mersea, Essex (South/Sud), Ontario, District 60, Subdistrict Number: K-1:
Inice Wilkinson, fisherman, p. 16
[Source: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1901/index-e.html . See also: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/District.jsp?id=60 ]
Future Research
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/census/index-e.html
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"Fisherman"
| 1. |
VAUGHAN, SYDNEY
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 30 | Birth place: Ontario - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F) Division: 2, Page: 81 |
| 2. |
BIGFORD, WILLIAM
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 27 | Birth place: Ontario - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F), Division: 2, Page: 80 |
| 3. |
BICKFORD, HEZEKIAH
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 62 | Birth place: USA - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F), Division: 2, Page: 79 |
| 4. |
SIDALL, BENJAMIN
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 57 | Birth place: ENGLAND - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F), Division: 2, Page: 76 |
| 5. |
BRYDGES, WILLIAM
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 30 | Birth place: Ontario - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F), Division: 2, Page: 75 |
| 6. |
TRUAX, ABRAM
- Federal Census of 1871 (Ontario
Index) Age: 23 | Birth place: Ontario - District: ESSEX (001), Sub-district: Mersea (F), Division: 2, Page: 15 |
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/genealogy/index-e.html - Search Mersea and Fisherman
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"Fisherman"
| Name | Age | Province | District Name | Sub-District Name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Askins, George | 19 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 54 |
| 2. | Askins, Wm. | 40 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 53 |
| 3. | Bickford, Charles | 47 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 55 |
| 4. | Loop, Darius | 30 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 55 |
| 5. | Mooney, John | 25 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 8 |
| 6. | Reed, Darius | 30 | Ontario | Essex (181) | Mersea (H) | p. 55 |
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[See also: http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/Test3.jsp?did=68 ]
McMullin, Josiah
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086&frag=e080/e001985791&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 4 - Fishing - Appears
to be at Point Pelee
#004766-98 (Essex Co): Josiah
McMULLEN, 40, widower, farmer, Mersea twp., same,
s/o James & blank, married Eliza TILDEN, 39, Mersea
twp., same, d/o Charles TILDEN & Annie ROBERTSON,
witn: William TILDEN of Mersea twp & Mrs. A. TISDALE
of Kent Co., 20 April 1898 at Blythewood, Mersea twp
-
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~maryc/essex98.htm
- 1869-1925 Ontario Archives, microfilm MS 932
Goyau...
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 4 - Fisherman - Was
living with McMullin, Josiah and identified as
fishing - Appears to be at Point Pelee
Atkins, Norris
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 4 - Fishing - Appears
to be at Point Pelee
Lees?, Stanley
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89086&frag=e080/e001985791&dir=1911a
- Fishing
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 4 - Fishing -
Appears to be at Point Pelee
Woollson? Frederick.
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing
- Appears to be at Point Pelee
Surrens? Gordon
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fisherman -
Appears to be at Point Pelee
Passmore John
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fisherman -
Appears to be at Point Pelee
Murphy, John.
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing - Living
with John Passmore - Appears to be at Point Pelee
Ainslie, Verne.
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing - Appears
to be at Point Pelee
Livingston, Frederick
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89087&frag=e080/e001985792&dir=1911a
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 25 - Page 5 - Fishing - Living
with Verne Ainslie - Appears to be at Point Pelee
Hillman, Jonas -
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89092
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 26 - Page 4 - Fisher
Derbyshire Randy -
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89100
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 27 - Page 6 - Wheatley -
Fisherman
Maxwell, Henry -
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=89101
Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 27 - Page 7 - Wheatley -
Fisherman
Otto Fox -
http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/SplitView.jsp?id=88836
- Province/Territory: Ontario, District Name: Essex
South, District Number: 68, Sub-district: Mersea,
Sub-district Number: 30 - Page 2 - fisherman