Foote in his Favourite hat

• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Job; Robert Brown; 1873-1961; Foote; Samuel J.; 1873-1936; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_fomowa/id/556

1 photograph : sepia toned 13.5 x 8 cm Samuel J. Foote with his fly rod walking toward Robert Brown Job. Title from album caption. Samuel J. Foote (1873-1936) was born in Grand Bank in 1873. Foote was called to the Newfoundland Bar in 1899 and went to practice with Sir James Winter. Foote entered into politics in 1904. Foote died on December 8, 1936. Robert Brown Job (1873-1961), son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job, was born in Waterloo, England. Married (1) Alice Warren; (2) Emilie (Mare) Warren. In 1899 he became partners in Job Brothers & Co. In 1928 Job was appointed to the Legisaltive Council and served in that body until the introduction of Government by Commission in 1934. He was a local historian and contributed several articles to the Newfoundland Quarterly. Job died on September 6, 1961. 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.