Colour photograph of fishing shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
Shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia occupied by during the lobster season (May-June) by fishermen from mainland Nova Scotia and Prince Edward island. The MacCallum brothers kept their lobster boats in this cove which is protected by a breakwater (out of view to the left). A lobster canning factory and a life-saving station maintained by the Canadian Government were located along this stretch of beach in the late 1880s.
