Re-enactment of the Ship 'Hector' Landing 1923

Re-enactment of the Ship 'Hector' Landing 1923

Here is a photograph of the vessel which served in the re-enactment of the ship "Hector" landing at Brown’s Point on 17 July 1923.

The vessel was originally the schooner "Leo", owned by Captain Horace Hyde of Murray River, PEI. It was rebuilt at the Pictou Marine Railway, owned by J. & J. Yorston, to replicate the "Hector".

Captain D.C. Fraser of Chance Harbour, Pictou County, was chosen to skipper the Hector during the reenactment of 17 July 1923. At eighty-six years old, he was believed to be “the oldest navigator in Nova Scotia.” Alongside Fraser were New Glasgow’s Captain James Meikle and second mate, Robert MacLeod from Caribou.