Below are thumbnail pictures of the newest assortment of photos we have from the collection of Bruce Boehner boehner@bwr.eastlink.ca of West LaHave. Just click on the small image and it will take you to the larger image with a description of what we know of the photo. If you can add to the description, please let us know. You can email me at jmailman@tallships.ca. Thanks again to Bruce and now enjoy the pictures. When you click on the small image you will get the larger version of that thumbnail picture. To return to the main menu, just hit the back button on your browser.


Picture - Click HereBoehner Brothers plant & home in West LaHave - Calendar dated 1905
Picture - Click HereShip yard at Boehner Brothers in West LaHave, frozen in - date 1915-20
Picture - Click HereSchooner (unknown) launching at Boehner Brothers shipyard in West LaHave - 1915-20
Picture - Click HereTussell pulling ship into the LaHave River at Boehner Brothers shipyard in West LaHave - 1915-20
Picture - Click Here2 masted schooner at Boehner Brothers wharf in West LaHave - date 1920's
Picture - Click HereShip building at Boehner Brothers shipyard in West LaHave - date 1915-20
Picture - Click HereSea trials just off shore from Boehner Brothers plant in West LaHave - date early 1920's
Picture - Click HereSchooner launching at Boehner Brothers plant in West LaHave - date 1915-1920
Picture - Click HereLaHave Outfitting 1926 building, LaHave. Now LaHave Bakery, built by Boehner Brothers, 1895
Picture - Click HereLaHave River at Bridgewater what is now Shipyards Landing - date: This postcard mailed 1910
Picture - Click HereBusy port at Bridgewater loading lumber at what is now Shipyards Landing - date: Approximately before 1910
Picture - Click HereLaHave River at Bridgewater what is now Shipyards Landing - date: before 1910
Picture - Click HereLaHave River at Bridgewater what is now Shipyards Landing - date: unknown
Picture - Click HereSteamer leaving Bridgewater near what is now the Irving tanks - piloted by Tug "Trusty" (postcard mailed 1905)
Picture - Click HereShipping at Bridgewater Wharf date: Postcard mailed 1905
Picture - Click HereMoving lumber on a raft on LaHave River . Picture taken north of the current "new" bridge. Postcard mailed 1915
Picture - Click HereView of downtown Bridgewater approximately 1927. You can see the clock tower of the Post Office and the court house built in 1892 by Boehner Brothers.
Picture - Click HereShipping at wharf what is now Shipyards Landing in Bridgewater. approximately 1910
Picture - Click HereView of old bridge at Bridgewater from town wharf. Postcard mailed 1927
Picture - Click HereAcadia Gas Engines Bridgewater. Now it is Shipyards Landing
Picture - Click HereKing Street, Bridgewater, looking north approximately 1905
Picture - Click HereGeneral View of Bridgewater from Elm Street looking southwest.All the buildings on the riverbank are still there, before the big fire. 1910
Picture - Click HereLaHave River at Pleasantville, looking west. Postcard mailed 1916
Picture - Click HereBridge over LaHave River at New Germany - 1915
Picture - Click HereTug "Trusty" owned by LaHave Steamship Co. West LaHave. 77' long, 17' 4" wide, 58 tons, built 1898. Reg #107118. Docked in ice at West LaHave Wharf.
Picture - Click HereTug "Trusty" owned by LaHave Steamship Co. West LaHave. 77' long, 17' 4" wide, 58 tons, built 1898. Picking up passengers along LaHave River shoreline.
Picture - Click HereTug "Trusty" owned by LaHave Steamship Co. West LaHave. 77' long, 17' 4" wide, 58 tons, built 1898. Anchored in LaHave River at West LaHave.
Picture - Click Here"Tussel" leaving Boehner's wharf in West LaHave, owned by LaHave Steamship Co. West LaHave. 83' 2" long, 20' 5" wide, 151 tons, built 1910 in Lunenburg.Reg #137884
Picture - Click Here"Tussel" owned by LaHave Steamship Co. West LaHave leaving Boehner's . 83' 2" long, 20' 5" wide, 151 tons, built 1910 and Captained by Gabe Pentz, LaHave
Picture - Click HereBuilding the Schooner "Moween" on slip at Boehner's Ship Building in West LaHave Buil;t 1918, 108'6" - 99 ton - Reg #138822
Picture - Click HereAn American ship loading lumber at Boehner's Brothers wharf in West LaHave 1913. Boehner home in background.
Picture - Click HereSS Huntclift - July 1903, towed in LaHave River by Tug "Trusty", en route to Bridgewater
Picture - Click HereIce Breaker "Stanley" 914 tons ice breaking LaHave River at Bridgewater en route to tow 1142 ton Norweigen Barque, Laugen and 875 ton Carrie Winslow. Feb 1911


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