| Summary: | 1 photograph : sepia toned 13.5 x 8 cm William Carson Job sitting on the front porch of the Fomowa Clubhouse. Title from album caption. William Carson Job (1864-1943) was born in St. John's, son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job. After working for a short time for a mercantile firm in Liverpool, he returned to St. John's to become manager of Job Brothers & Co. in 1866. In 1909 Job was appointed to the Newfoundland Legisaltive Council and served as one of the first presidents of the St. John's Board of Trade. Job died on June 25, 1943. Good An album containing 323 black and white photographs and 25 pages of text, covering the years 1914 to 1937 of the FOMOWA Fishing Club on the Grand Codroy River on the west coast of Newfoundland. The album's images have been digitized as separate items.
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