A local historian is glad to see the old green fishing house by Reversing Falls gone, but says now we have to do something with it.
Harold Wright tells CHSJ news it represented a significant part of our harbour fishing history which lasted until the beginning of the seventies. He says it was used as a shelter and a place for fishermen to store their supplies. But now that it’s in the water it’s a navigational and environmental hazard, as well as a loss of our heritage says Wright.
20 years ago Wright approached Common Council and asked the city to designate it as a heritage site but it didn’t go through. He says we now have maybe one or two fishing houses left.
Wright adds that now it’s floating in our waters, chemicals from the wood could now be in the water and someone needs to pick it up.
