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Photographs
A house floats alongside a schooner near Burin after the tsunami. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
Waterfront debris. Sticks, staves, posts, cribbing and a wharf platform, left behind in the wave of the tsunami. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
A house moved off its foundation and deposited at the water's edge, Burin North.This one could be salvaged. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
Lord’s Cove. From an “H.M.M.” postcard found in the Trinity Museum, Trinity Bay. (Photo: Gladys Bonnell)
Dozens of houses were washed out to sea. Miraculously, some survived intact, but most, like this one, were totally destroyed. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
West side of Taylor’s Bay. From an “H.M.M.” postcard found in the Trinity Museum,Trinity Bay.(Photo: Gladys Bonnell)
The graveyard at Lord's Cove. Crosses mark the graves of Sarah Rennie and her three children, trapped and drowned in their sea-level house. (Photo: Garry Cranford)
Burin. The site where Bartlett's Shop once stood. The tsunami lifted it off the foundation and transported it to another location. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
The devastated shore properties in Port au Bras. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
At sea, the energy in the waves of the tsunami passed unnoticed under ships. In shallow water, however, the energy intensified and vessels were at the mercy of troughs and crests of harbour waves. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
Burin Relief collection vehicle.When news of the South Coast Disaster reached the outside world, a committee based in St. John's coordinated the campaign to collect cash and materials to rebuild the fifty communities affected. (Centre for Newfoundland Studies Archives)
Lucy and Malcolm Hollett, 1962. A magistrate at Burin in 1929, Malcolm Hollett coordinated and administered the relief efforts, inventorying the damage, and distributing the relief to those in need. (Photo: Grace Hollett.)
Left: Nurse Dorothy Cherry on the steps of Markland Cottage Hospital. Nurse Cherry received commendations for risking life and limb in travelling from town to town on the Burin Peninsula, giving medical aid to victims of the tsunami. With her is a nursing colleague, Bessie Sellars.