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Family Cabin Detail 0f I-50603 |
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When families moved to Ocean Falls, they wanted the same things that other communities had. |
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New homes being built on 10th Street, 1918 I-47797 |
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Getting mail at a post office was important for many people. They wanted to keep in contact with friends and relatives in other places. |
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| Post Office, 1908 |
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In case someone got sick, they had a hospital. |
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Ocean Falls General Hospital, Opened 1916 |
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People need to buy supplies like food, clothes, so a store was opened. |
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View inside Company Store, 1918 I-50605 |
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Families wanted their children to be able to go to school. |
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| School, 1924 |
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Opening of Charleson School, 1956 I-50560 |
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If a fire started, a fire engine was there to put it out. |
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The New Fire Engine, 1924 I-50586 |
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They even had their own local telphone system eventually. |
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| Telephone Exchange, 1962 |
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People in Ocean Falls didn't have a great need for cars, since the town had its own railroad, as well as a few trucks. Horses were also used for pulling the garbage wagon, and for delivering groceries and pulling the snow plow in winter. The last horse in Ocean Falls, named Kate, turned out to be a very uncooperative animal who was always trying to run away. |
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Kate the Horse I-50632 |
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When Kate the Horse died, no one missed her that much, but the townspeople did like to say that "Ocean Falls was no longer a one-horse town". |
