DonSSDD wrote:

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Wed take the hay load back to the barn, back the trailer into the barn floor, and then we had a fork that got planted into the load. The big fork had a rope running through a pulley to an overhead rail in the loft.

 

 

Farmers and fishermen are strong people.

 

 

 

I have an antique hay fork and hay trolley with the pulley. They were very ingenuous for the time and look really cool. There is one still one on the track hanging up in the rafters of the barn on our property. There is no way I can get up there (60 feet?) to get it down.

My Wife's Great Uncle, Cecil, on PEI, was a barrel of a man. He used to hand-pump, through piping, the water to fill the cattle troughs (3 claw-foot bathtubs) out in the field. The bathtubs are still out there, and furthest one is located at least a quarter mile from the pump!

I get the feeling that most homes of the time were built through passed-down knowledge, kind of like a local knowledge base that builders shared with one another.  Often there will be variabilities from region to region, based on local conditions or local industries.  For example, Don could tell you that many of the old houses in the Lunenburg area were built using some techniques common to the shipbuilding industry which was very big there.

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Canadian Poncho wrote:

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Great video! I notice many of the houses from the 1800's follow a similar design. My house is one of them. I'd love to know if there was a blueprint for these homes that was sold (for example) thru Hudson Bay or Eaton's. I've seen a dozen homes that are almost identical to mine but with subtle differences.

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My neighbour's old house is a Sears house.

Our house has a twin just down the road, just subtle differences.

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That's cool, Darryl.  I'm surprised as Sears Modern Homes were only made up to 1940 (started in 1908), but Sears Canada started in 1952.  It never occurred to me that Canadians would order from Sears USA, but I suppose, why not?

Todd, here's a Plan Book of Ideal Homes by Eaton's.  Does yours look like one of these?  They were made from 1910 - 1932 but were mostly sold in western provinces.  I wonder how many of these made it to the east coast?

Canadian Aladdin had a larger presence in eastern Canada (they had an office in Saint John, and NB mills).  Could it be one of theirs?  Link: https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/cpm/catalog/cat2104e.html

My apologies for suggesting otherwise. From reading about structures built in NS from the 1700s-up, I was under the impression that most homes built here were of local design/construction, styles/techniques of which would have migrated here, or been copied from, other places.  That said, the oldest building in Halifax, St. Paul's Church built in 1750, was a kind of kit, made from lumber pre-cut and sent up from Boston... 

I wonder if kit homes were commonly built on PEI as summer places built by people from away? (i.e. Sears Homes bought by wealthy Americans, shipped to PEI and local builders contracted to assemble them)

Info on PEI heritage homes here:  https://www.gov.pe.ca/photos/original/HeritageHouseNo.pdf

The reason for my original post (from the link above):

"Most of the houses on Prince Edward Island were not designed by
architects or built from plans. They were fashioned by carpenters
who simply built the kind of houses they knew how to build. These
adaptations are formally referred to as "vernacular" styles. They
were often based on formal architectural styles, and like them,
can be associated with certain decades."

I thought this was the most common method of east coast building in the 1800s through 1900s.