Samuel Gidney

Samuel Gidney, his brother Edwin Arthur and their father Edwin built the schooner "Emma Gidney", named after Samuel’s wife, in Sandy Cove in 1875, and sold it two years later. All three were fishermen and held stock in "Gidney Bros.", a successful fishing export business. He often sailed from Nova Scotia to the United States for commercial endeavours, though the company mainly used steamships to carry their cargo. Samuel Gidney was a founding shareholder of the Maitland Telephone Company of Yarmouth, Ltd., one of the earliest telephone companies in the Maritimes, incorporated in 1886. He also founded the Petite Passage Cable Company, linking by telephone Brier and Long Islands with Digby Neck in 1903. It is reported that Gidney and his family took care of Jerome in their home in Mink Cove from the time he was found in September 1863 to February 1864.