Sam'l Job's first fish

• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1931
• Subjects: Job; Samuel Ernest; (1865- 1937); Atlantic salmon fishing > Newfoundland and Labrador; Rivers > Newfoundland and Labrador > Grand River (Codroy Valley); Atlantic salmon; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_fomowa/id/557

1 photograph : sepia toned 13.5 x 7.5 cm Samuel Ernest Job and his guide presenting his newly caught salmon. The Grand River is in the background. Title from album caption. Samuel Ernest Job ( 1865-1937), born in St. John's, son of Agnes (Brown) and Thomas Raffles Job. In 1890 Job became a partner in Job Brothers Co. of St. John's and in Job Brothers of Liverpool. In 1909 with the incorporation of the St. John's firm he became a director. He spent most of his life in the Liverpool business, but visited Newfoundland periodically on behalf of the company. 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.