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Vincent Turple Sr.
c.1910/11–?
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Vincent Turple was a Pictou Island boatbuilder whose work connected the Island’s fishing economy with the difficult problem of winter transportation. The 1931 census index records Vincent Turple, age twenty, on Pictou Island. Later community-history evidence identifies Elias Turple and Sarah Livingstone as his parents and describes Vincent learning wooden-boat construction from his father. Vincent later lived on the Island with Winnifred Hemmings and their family and became closely associated with Island boatbuilding. PIHS records attribute the surviving mail iceboat to Vincent, but its construction year is not fully settled: PIHS sources give 1940 and 1941. The surviving boat makes his work unusually tangible. It represents local craftsmanship applied to mail, supplies and passenger travel across a Strait that could alternate between ice and open water.
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- 1931 Pictou Island census index; PIHS Island History/Heritage Society shipbuilding and iceboat records; Community Stories iceboat/Turple family narrative
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Elias Turple family
Selected person’s details ↑Family around Vincent Turple Sr. · 3 generations · 5 of 5 people
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Elias Turple
Elias Turple
The family records groups Elias Turple and Sarah Livingstone Turple with Vincent Turple Sr. It establishes a family relationship, but does not yet provide a separately sourced account of Elias's life.
- PIHS family records and contributed genealogy
Sarah Livingstone Turple
Sarah Livingstone Turple
The family records groups Sarah Livingstone Turple with Elias Turple and Vincent Turple Sr. A fuller account will require records establishing her life dates and family connections.
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Winnifred (Hemmings) Turple
Winnifred (Hemmings) Turple
Spouse of Vincent Turple Sr.. This family entry preserves the relationships reported by the sources below; further life details have not been established.
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- Elias Turple → parent of Vincent Turple Sr. · PIHS community history
- Sarah Livingstone Turple → parent of Vincent Turple Sr. · PIHS community history
- Winnifred (Hemmings) Turple ↔ spouse of Vincent Turple Sr. · PIHS community history
- Vincent Turple Sr. → parent of Jim Turple
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