These men were probably candidates for the Methodist ministry. A conference group. These men were the delegates to the annual meeting of the Newfoundland Conference of the Methodist Church, c. 1885. This may be a group of Methodists at a social gathering at Charles Robert Ayre's summer house. He is the elderly man seated at the far right with the child on his lap.
Icebergs float down along the coast of Newfoundland each spring from the Arctic Ocean.
Boethucs, Natives of Newfoundland. Despite the caption, this appears to be a group of students from the Methodist College, St. John's. T his digital collection was produced under contract to the SchoolNet Digital Collections Program, Industry Canada.