The Victoria Community Development Corporation

Carbonear Railway Station Museum Learning Resources

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CARBONEAR SHIPS

OBJECTIVES

- alphabetical order
- mapping skills
- graphing
- problem solving

1. INTRODUCTION

This activity may be completed individually or in small groups.
Give each student a copy of the list of ships. Allow time for students to examine the list. Ask: What do you notice about the names of most of the ships? (They are named after people). Ask: Why do you think most of the ships are named after people? Allow time for responses.
(The most likely answer is that the ships' owners named their vessels after members of their families).

2. ALPHABETICAL ORDER

Instruct students to put the list of ships' names in alphabetical order. Allow time for review.
To modify this activity, assign each group a certain number of ships' names to put in alphabetical order. For example students may only put 10 names in alphabetical order; or only 15 names in alphabetical order. The teacher can decide how to complete the activity depending on the amount of time available and the skill level of the students.

3. GRAPHING

Depending on the skill level of the students, the teacher will have to decide on how to proceed with the graphing activity.
Distribute copies of the list showing the tonnage of several of the Carbonear ships or show the list on an overhead. Instruct students to make a bar graph show the tonnage of each ship. If available, students may use a spreadsheet or other graphing software to complete this activity.

4. MAPPING SKILLS

Distribute the list of places ships from Carbonear visited. Using an atlas, map of the world, etc., have the students locate the places listed, and correctly show them on a blank map of the world.

5. DISCUSSION

Ask students what the ships carried from Carbonear and Newfoundland to other parts of the world, and what the ships brought back to Carbonear and Newfoundland from other parts of the world.

6. FIELD TRIP

Visit the Carbonear Railway Station to find out more about foreign- going vessels.

CARBONEAR RAILWAY STATION
CARBONEAR SHIPS
ACTIVITY SHEET 2

 

CARBONEAR SHIPS

TONNAGE

Archie Cromwell 170
Bianca 408
Callidora 173
Caribou Hill 99
E. D. Bailey 150
Emily Belliveau 223
Emma Belliveau 263
Fisherman 150
Georgina 120
Gladys 150
James O' Neill 125
June 485
Olinda 227

CARBONEAR SHIPS

Lena	Norma B. Strong
Bianca	Albert Moulton
Cape Race	Ellen & Mary
Bernard B. Conrad	Jessie L. Smith
Cape Pine	Ich Dien
Tattler	Jane
Sunset Glow	Gladys
John Llewellyn	Czarino
Thos. G. Gorton	Isnor
Caribou Hill	Clio
Grace	E. D. Bailey
Beatrice	Fleetwood
Callidora	Lavenia
Clutha	J. D. Hazen
Gay Gordon	Benevolence
Georgina	Olinda
Sidney Smith	Elizabeth Jane
Archie Cromwell	Fall River
Novelty	Canadian
Hope	Cordelia
James O' Neil	Julius
Dorothy Duff	June
Lila Boutelier	Thomas Ridley
Mary Duff	Lowel F. Parks
Emily Belliveau	Elizabeth Rodway
Emma Belliveau	Orient
Fisherman

CARBONEAR SHIPS

WHERE THEY SAILED

Labrador
Nova Scotia
Boston
New York
Brazil
Barbados
Spain
Portugal
Gibraltar
Italy
Greece
France
Sicily