The Presidential fish equals club record

• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 1932
• Subjects: Cormier; John; Job; Robert Brown; 1873-1961; Atlantic salmon fishing > Newfoundland and Labrador; Atlantic salmon; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/m_fomowa/id/566

1 photograph : sepia toned 13.5 x 7.5 cm John Cormier presenting Robert Brown Job's newly caught salmon. Title from album caption. 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. John Cormier sold the house and land at Forks Pool on the Grand River, Codroy, July 11, 1914 to the FOMOWA Fishing Club. 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.