"I live in Bug Town" - Mapping out the heritage assets of Deer Lake

Before the Covid-19 lockdown, Heritage NL assisted the Town of Deer Lake with one of our People, Places, and Culture workshops, helping identify heritage assets in the community. The workshop involves people writing out recipe cards like the one above, noting things like placenames, historically interesting people, old shops and stores, or places where things used to happen. Then, we put them on a big paper map, and start to figure out clusters of places for future research and planning. I always love finding out some of the local informal neighbourhood names which you would never know if you didn't live there (like Bug Town!).

Since then, I've started to put some of that information on a Google Map, and have been compiling a list of names of people (past and present) who are of cultural or historical interest.  This is a very preliminary list, with a lot of gaps in it. If you have information on any of these people, or have suggestions for other Deer Lake people who should be included, email dale@heritagenl.ca or comment below.

Family Name	First Name	Notes
?	?	War Veteran Farmers
Ball	Ralph	Blacksmith
Barrett	?	Store owner
Basha	Mike
Basha	Frankie
Bearsley	?	Manager of Power House, wife was involved with Girl Guides possibly?
Bolos	Dan	Blacksmith
Brownie	?	farmer
Butt	Joe	Gas station
Chaulk	Bill	Bowater superintendant
Coish	Amos	Harness maker in the 1930s
Critch	?	Store owner
Critch	Becky	Store owner
Critch	Mose	Store owner
Dinney	Elias	worked as a carpenter on penstocks in early 1920s
Eddy	?	Store owner
Feltham	Abraham	original settler at Junction Brook, worked on Main Dam, farmer
Green(e?)	TM	First doctor
Hayden	Victor	had second operation in Deer Lake hospital - appendix
Hinton	?	Mrs.?
Hodder	Phil	Rec Centre named for him
Housell	Mamie	lives on Hancock's Road, housed moved from Junction Brook, daughter of Abe Feltham
Hruse (?)	?	teacher
Lung	Jim	Owner of first Chinese restaurant in Deer Lake, on Main Street
McDonald	?	Doctor, made house calls, after hour visits, no set office hours for patients
Morey	Melva	Grade 4 teacher
Morey	Doug	farmer
Nicols	?	Original settlers, farmers, fishing and hunting guides
Osmond	?	Store owner
Prowse	?	Had farm on Humber River near upper bridge
Reid	Alexander (Sandy)	towed houses from Junction Brook to Newtown in Deer Lake during the 1950s in preparation for the airport
Schwartz	Sam	Shop keeper, businessman. Job interview -you had to break the twine, if you broke it, you were hired
St. George	?	Hotel owner
Stuckless	?	Store owner, 5th Ave
Wight	Harold	Long time employee of Deer Lake Airport
Williams	?	Store owner