User:Vinegar-lake

Oral history says that: Sometime in the early 1800's a sleigh loaded with lumbercamp supplies broke through the ice and a keg of vinegar was lost. Whimsically, the lake where the vinegar was lost became known as The Vinegar Lake even though it was already named Salmon Lake because the atlantic salmon swam up the Fitzroy River to the gravelly spawning beds in the lake that were laid at the mouth of Quakes Brook flowing down from the bigger Quakes Lake. Locally 'Quakes' was/is pronounced 'corkes'. I ever heard anything about the origin of the name or the pronounciation. The dams and log sluices built to get the logs down to the mills around the cove barred the salmon run long enough to for that salmon run to die off around 1900, I guess. They may have found it again but I doubt they could persist; I've been told the lake waters are not very 'clean' now. Tant pis! My sources were the old men of the village: Rich Dorey and his son Albert, Wash Harnish, Almond Dorey and perhaps others.