It might be an error to boast of the many natural resources of Barachois, but resources there are; however until our civic authorities get together and work out a plan which would contribute to our economic and social advancement we are doomed to remain insecure.
Nevertheless from the biginning until modern times our people made use of what Providence sent their way, from the forest and the sea.
The rivers of Barachois are teeming with salmon, red and speckled trout, cod fish and smelt. Tourist come from afar for the mere pleasure of catching and the satisfaction of eating them. The lakes around which, herds of deer, moose and caribou make their homes along with geese, ducks and partridges provide happy hunting grounds in early autumn, while the surrounding forest of birch, ash, dogwood and maple present a panorama of enviable beauty which one is sorry to leave.
At one time fishing was the main industry and our forefathers pursued this occupation. Yet it is a fact that for many years lumbering is to the fore.
Until 1940, there was much farming with almost every land owner producing his own meat, milk, butter, eggs and wool. Vegetables especially potatoes were also raised by almost every family. There were hundreds of cows and the green hillsides were dotted by flocks of sheep.
In the mid 1860's ships built by Barachois tradesmen and likewise manned by a local Captain and crew, freighted domestic products to both the new and Old World. How this hazardous life must have appealed to those energetic pioneers, worn by the hardships and the tang of the sea! Today we regret that there is no actual record of their thrilling seatales; their encounters with hurricans, typhoons and sea monsters; their long motionless days in mid Atlantic with meager food supply; the loading of fruit in Spain and Sandlewood in Singapore; but better still and more alluring were their weeks of leisure in the Mediterrenean, where they basked neath Naples's Sunny skies~ A volume of thus would be of priceless value, to us, the descendants of these staunch and nobel fore~fathers.
How truly remarked:"This was the age of wooden ships and iron men."
