The history of Port Granby (PDF) by NVDHS’ Myno Van Dyke, from the Clarington Promoter, June 2018.
It’s no fish tale: Samuel Wilmot started Ontario’s first salmon hatchery in his basement
March 18, 2018 – Posted in: Newcastle History in the News NewsThe facility served as a model for hatcheries across Canada and in other countries — but things didn’t always go swimmingly.
It was an unusual project to do in a house basement: hatch salmon eggs and raise the small fry on a diet of minced liver.
But Samuel Wilmot’s experiment succeeded and in 1868, he opened Ontario’s first full-scale fish hatchery in the Village of Newcastle, 80 kilometres east of Toronto.
See the full article in the Toronto Star, March 18, 2018
