HISTORICAL MILESTONES
IN A NUTSHELL
The town of Fortune was:
-- discovered in the early 1500's;
-- used as seasonal fishing base in the 1600's;
-- permanently settled in the 1700's;
-- economically and socially developed in the 1800's;
-- embarking on development of the tourist trade in 2000!
IMPORTANT DATES
-- 1763...first known settlers in Fortune
-- 1817...(John) Woundy became first teacher
-- 1824...first Methodist chapel built
-- 1825...first school built
-- 1863...Henry J. Haddon became first Justice of Peace
-- 1864-1882...Joseph G. Haddock was town's only resident doctor
-- 1867-1913...James N. Haddon was teaching legend
-- 1871...Masonic Society formed
-- 1872...Henry J. Haddon became first Postmaster
-- 1877...Rev. Jabez Hill was first resident Methodist clergy
-- 1880...John E. Lake operated can-manufacturing factory
-- 1883...Masonic Lodge constructed
-- 1889...first Salvation Army Citadel built;
Capt. James Bowring first resident Officer
-- 1896...fire surrounded the town for several days and burnt out the
entire countryside
-- 1907...John E. Lake established furniture factory; first in province;
burned down in 1917.
-- 1913...Lake & Lake Ltd. established; town's longest surviving business
-- 1922...harbour blocked solid by ice from December until February 1923
-- 1930...January 4th; first electric lights turned on in town
-- 1935...Henry B. Mayo, grandson of H. J. Haddon, became town's
first Rhodes Scholar
-- 1944...Public Library established
-- 1946...Fortune was incorporated; John R. Dixon became first Mayor
-- 1947...first volunteer Fire Brigade formed; Russell Lake was first Fire Chief
-- 1949...South Coast Bakery Ltd. Opened; first bakery on Burin Peninsula
-- 1977...fossils discovered in the Fortune Head area
-- 1994...Fortune Head declared an Ecological Reserve and site of the
Precambrian-Cambrian geological boundary
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