The Mockbeggar Plantation

The Mockbeggar Plantation is thought to be the oldest fishery plantation in Newfoundland. The wooden salt box fish-store is believed to have been built around 1733, making it the oldest surviving wooden structure on the coast. Over the years it has served as a salt fish store, salmon packing house, salt store, fish dryer, barter shop, residence of owner, temporary Methodist Church (1871), headquarters for the newly established Salvation Army Corps (1886), and miscellaneous warehousing purposes in more recent years. From 1939 to 1966 the property was occupied by F. Gordon Bradley, a lawyer and politician who, after playing a significant role in the move to bring Newfoundland into Confederation with Canada, became Newfoundland's first representative in the Canadian cabinet, and later served as a member of the Senate.

Joey Smallwood and Gordon Bradley had many meetings in the ornate library of this house.





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