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Fyfe, Joseph Watson
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Joesph Watson Fyfe was born on the 17 July 1869 to John Fyfe (1835-1881) and Mary Ann Smith (1832-1912) of Stanley Bridge, Prince Edward Island. Watson worked in New Brunswick in 1897, shipping wood in the winter months. Lured by the hope of prosperity, he joined the Klondyke gold rush and travelled to the Yukon in 1898 where he remained until 1906. Returning to the Maritimes, he married Minnie Alice Weir of Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, in Amherst, NS, in October of 1908 and began a life at sea. Joseph Watson drowned in a storm off Peggy's Cove, NS on the 7 October 1938, with his son Aubrey (1915-1938) while Captain of the "Clarissa P," a two-mastered schooner, which had sailed out of Sydney with a load of coal when it was overtaken by the storm.