Nova Scotian childhood Joshua Slocum

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slocum s childhood school, mount hanley schoolhouse museum


joshua slocum born in family s farm house in mount hanley , learned read , write @ nearby mount hanley school. earliest ventures on water made on coastal schooners operating out of small ports such port george , cottage cove near mount hanley along bay of fundy. when joshua 8 years old, slocombe family moved mount hanley brier island in digby county, @ mouth of bay of fundy. slocum s maternal grandfather keeper of lighthouse @ southwest point there. father, stern man , strict disciplinarian, took making leather boots local fishermen, , joshua helped in shop. however, boy found scent of salt air more alluring smell of shoe leather. yearned life of adventure @ sea, away demanding father , increasingly chaotic life @ home among many brothers , sisters.


he made several attempts run away home, succeeding, @ age fourteen, hiring on cabin boy , cook on fishing schooner, returned home. in 1860, after birth of eleventh slocombe (joshua changed spelling of last name later in life) child , subsequent death of kindly mother, joshua, sixteen, left home good. , friend signed on @ halifax ordinary seamen on merchant ship bound dublin, ireland.








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