 The youngest son of a boatbuilding family, Henry Embree established his own boat yard between Brown and Pitt streets on the Port Hawkesbury waterfront, next to the P. Paint and Sons warehouse.Between 1815 and 1822, Samuel and Thomas Bangs Embree moved to Port Hawkesbury and began building ships from their shipyard on Embree Island.At times, Embree Shipbuilding employed as many as thirty men and was responsible for building at least five schooners, six brigantines and one barque.