 The 1836 "Census" show Whiteway's family of eleven living in "Muddy Hole" and five people living in nearby Ragged Harbour.Musgrave Harbour was the administrative and religious center of Hamilton Sound by 1900, but due to its poor harbour it failed to be a commercial center.When Tobias Abbott of Doting Cove introduced the gasoline engine in 1909 the Labrador fishery was replaced with the inshore fishery.