The postmark on this card is April 21,1911. The fish tugs lining the west side of the harbour, with their prominent smokestacks, would all have been steam driven tugs. The type of gasoline or diesel tugs which we see today, with enclosed sides, generally date from a later era, although one of the tugs in this photograph does have partially enclosed sides. The use of gill nets to catch fish came into use in the early 1900s and the fishing industry surged. In this photograph the prominent building on the top of Hillcrest (the bluff to the west of the harbour) was probably the building which later became the Hillcrest Inn.