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tmditional parish of Harbour Main was adminislcrcd from Ilarbour Main between 1868
and 1906.
Colliers people tmditionally attended mass at Ilarbour Main and Conception
Ilarbour. and even after the cemetery was opened in Conception Ilarbour, some Colliers
people insisted on being buried in Harbour Main.J.& At least one Ilarbour Main priest,
Father P.W. Browne. served as chaplain on the Labrador. I-lis book Where The Fishers
Go contains infonnation gathered while he lived at Ilarbour Main and served as chaplain
on the Labrador. J !
ignificant political conflicts within the community have been few, although
people from Colliers were involved in the famous political march during the election of
1861:
The whole situation appears to have grown out ofthe understanding in the
areas ofCat's Cove, Colliers, and Bacon Cove that Father Kyran Walsh
and his political hcnchman, Charles Furey, had been involved in
manipulating the relief funds granted to thc district to thc detrimcnt of
these three communities which did not get their proportion of the relief
funds. Moreover, the winter before the election the yards ofThomas Sl.
John's brig had been eut while she wintered.1t Furey's \.vharC 36
"MUNFLA 86-013, C8702.
J! Byrnc, allr People, Our Church, p. 47. Father Brownc was a Carbonear man, ordained
there December 29. 1887. He was later a professor of History at the University ofOuawa
from 1911 to 1914. !-Ic also taught at the Catholic University of America. where he died
in 1932-
16 "The Nc\\foundlander:' St. John's. 1864. published in Cyril J. Byrne. "The Church in
the Ilisiory ofthe Parish of Harbour Main" in Ollr People..Ollr Chllrch, p. 46. Only one
ofmy infonTlaOts mentioned this incident.
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