Attribution: Joyce Penney collection. Naomi Oldford, circa 1980s.
Welcome and Salvage History
Begin with the welcome panel, historic area maps, information on the Lane/Heffern family, and the story of Salvage as a central fishing community in Bonavista Bay. scan lane photo
The Crystal Stream
Learn about schooners, the Hunter family, the fishing trade, and the vessels that carried people, supplies, news, and fish products through outport Newfoundland.
The Lane/Heffern House
Explore the timeline and architecture of the house, including exposed wooden walls, the stone fireplace, the story of the families who lived here.
Attribution: Salvage Fisherman's Museum Archives, Arthur Heffern. Ida Heffern with her granddaughter, 1959. CC BY-NC 2.0 CA.
Women in the Home
Household tools, lighting, heating, foodways, textiles, and family labour demonstrate how women's work extended far beyond the walls of the house.
Attribution: Salvage Fisherman's Museum Archives, Arthur Heffern. Museum volunteers and caretakers, 2000-2010. CC BY-NC 2.0 CA.
1969: The House Becomes a Museum
This exhibit highlights the community museum tradition of donated and loaned household items, work tools, records, and objects residents felt should be preserved.
Skills and Crafts
See local handmade objects and traditions including spinning, knitting, crocheting sewing, broom making, riddle fence making, woodworking, and other talents.
Heber Heffern: Broom Man of Salvage
Photographs and examples of handmade birch brooms tell the story of a local craft now recognized as an endangered tradition in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Attribution: Salvage Fisherman's Museum Archives, Arthur Heffern. Members of the Heffern family in the Lane/Heffern House, 1962. CC BY-NC 2.0 CA.
Times in the Parlour: Music, Stories, and Radio
The parlour features songbooks, musical instruments, vintage radios, excerpts from the Doyle Bulletin, Confederation-era change, and the legacy of Gerald S. Doyle.
Attribution: Joyce Penney collection. Annie Lane (Brown), circa 1970s.
Annie Lane and NONIA
Learn about the Newfoundland Outport Nursing Industrial Association through Annie Lane, who knit for NONIA for over 70 years.
Bessie's Sewing Closet
The under-stair closet remembers Bessie Heffern's sewing nook through her original sewing machine alongside textiles. It also features poetry written by the women of Salvage.
From the Cradle to the Grave
Upstairs, a replica of a bedroom featuring a wooden cradle, clothing, hats, jewellery, a feather bed, and the Shroud of Salvage speak to family life and death customs.
Community Institutions
The Bishop's Harbour room and hallway include artifacts and archives on schools, church organizations, commercial activity, hunting and fishing, leisure, the Fisherman's Protective Union, and the Loyal Orange Lodge.