DCHP-3

finger wharf

Nfld
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1960
The backs of these mercantile premises face the water and each premise has a number of finger wharves which, in earlier days, were of prime importance for docking schooners which loaded fish and unloaded supplies of various kinds for the large-scale coastal traffic which focuses on the harbour of St. John's. . . .