Our Goals

As Friends of Safe Harbour, our goal is to help ensure that the old outport home  will not be forgotten. Through this web site, we revisit Safe Harbour by way of stories and photographs, old and new.  We want to look back at the Safe Harbour many of us knew.  Though life was harder in many ways, Safe Harbour is home to many cherished memories.  We would like this web site to be a way of bringing Safe Harbour people together and we encourage them to share their family histories, and their stories about the life and times of the Safe Harbour residents.  

Restoration in 2004

The second part of our goal is to promote Safe Harbour as a tourist destination. We saw that our first task would be to free the old roads from their impassable burden of brush and alders, and turn them into walking trails.  We wanted to cut the brush in the two United Church cemeteries, making them accessible again.  
There were bridges, causeways, a wharf and an information center to build. 

The Friends of Safe Harbour committee made a start on that goal in the Fall of 2004.  After over a year of waiting, our application for an ACOA grant was approved, and the 10 week project got under way on September 23, 2004. 

We are very pleased to report that the main road has been cleared of brush, and sturdy bridges built wherever needed. It is now a pleasant walk from where the church stood, all the way over to Attwood's Island.  A new causeway has been built to connect Safe Hr to Attwood's Island.  The rocks from the original causeway had been taken away some years ago and used on the Pools Island causeway 
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The damaged causeway in Burtons Cove had undergone major repairs.  The two cemeteries have been completely cleared of brush and alders, and are now easily accessible.  A new, 31 foot long wharf has been built on Dykes Point at the location of the old whale factory, and an information center was built close to the wharf.  

This project was under the full time supervision of our committee president, Sam King, who directed the work force, consisting of 3 men and 12 women. 
We want to express our thanks to each one of the crew for the great job they did. 

Check out our photo section to see pictures of the work, as it progressed.