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Past Locations
Pool Halls
In 1991 a pool hall was opened in Burlington. It was a place where people of all ages could go and spend some time, play pool, arcade games or just listen to some tunes on the good ole juke box.
This pool hall was first started by Dean Kelly, a former resident of Burlington, who is now currently residing in Bowmanville Ontario. He opened the pool hall shortly out of high school, but not long after, in 1993 moved to Ontario-leaving the pool hall in care of his brother Tony Kelly. The pool hall consisted of one pool table, two pinball machines, a juke box, and a couple other arcade games that were exchanged every few months for different ones. Tony ran the pool hall from 1993 to1995, when his daughter was born they closed it down for a summer, but re-opened again in 1996. This lasted five years
until Tony started working in PEI, with no one around to run the place, the pool hall closed down for good in 2001.
However, for a couple years, the Kelly’s pool hall was not the only one in town. Around 1995, during the first closure of the Kelly’s pool hall, Robert and Lori Green started a pool hall in Clayton Greens store, called Clayton Green and Sons. They ran the pool hall for about two years, when in 1997 they handed the management of the pool hall over to Bob Dawe He rented the place and kept it running for a year, until 1998 when it was shut down. This pool hall consisted of two pool tables, a pinball machine, a juke box, and several other arcade games.
Jubilee Guild House
The Jubilee Guild House was a women’s organization that was founded in 1935 at St. John’s, NL. It provided a chance for the women of the town to gather together and learn instructions on how to do different tasks such as knitting, sowing, etc. The Jubilee Guild House came to Burlington in the late 1930’s – early 1940’s. Different nonresidents would come into Burlington from other outports around Newfoundland and instructed the women present how to knit scarves, socks, sweaters and more. Another very enjoyable and popular teaching was weaving on looms. Ladies would spend time each week learning how to weave mats, table cloths, scarves, blankets and more. After the projects were done the women could sell their work or keep it for themselves. The ‘teacher’ (instructor) would come into Burlington at different times and would be paid to show the women her skills. One teacher for the Jubilee Guild House was Iris Jones of Little Bay Island. This practice would eventually fade away and change its name to Women’s Institute.
