David Blackwood states: “A few years ago I came across a 19th Century engraving of a ‘strange occurrence on the Labrador’, a whale’s fluke sticking out of an iceberg. That planted the idea of this etching and reminded me of stories brought home to Wesleyville by the Labrador fishermen. One such story had an elephant, with hair and tusks, described as a ‘great big monster’. This was probably an ancient mastodon, which crossed over the Bering Sea thousands of years ago.



When there was ‘not a breeze blowing’, a dead calm, on a Sunday excursions were often taken to get a good look at a particularly large and awesome berg. The Wesleyville schooners, all 63 of them, carried a trap motor boat on deck, or towed behind, that would be used to tow the schooners, to make headway when there was no wind (rare). The schooners had no engines.”

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