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Welcome to the online Elliston heritage photographic collection. In the "Mark's Path Military Base" section you will find photographs pertaining to the military base that was set up in this area in the 1940's. In addition to "The Mark's Path Base" section we have the following:

The Past

The Fishery

Mark's Path Base

People & Places

Elliston Ridge Facility (Gap Filler)

Yesterday

Hurricane Igor 2010

Sealers Memorial Official Opening 2014

WWI Commemoration Photos

"Mark's Path Base"

The United States Military established a station at Mark’s Path that is operational by early 1943 (No. 43 Radio Unit, Elliston, Newfoundland.) In November 1944, Canadian forces relieve American personnel at Mark’s Path. The station closes on October 1st, 1945.

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Personnel of the first American Base at Mark's Path in 1943. The man in the center with the white handkerchief is Edgar Bergen. The father of Candice Bergen (TV's Murphy Brown).		Eugene Nickolas, Earl Flack and others loading sandbags for the gun turrets at Mark's Path Base. (1943-44)		Men in Sandy Cove loading sandbags for the Mark's Path gun turrets. (1943-44)