Background
Mark Walker was born in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1846.
Mark Walker was born in Tickle Cove, Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1846.
He is best remembered for writing the song "Tickle Cove Pond". There he worked as a fisherman, a boat builder, and the first postmaster of Sweet Bay. Some of the songs written by Mark Walker include:
Tickle Cove Pond
The Antis of Plate Cove
Fanny"s Harbour Bawn
Girls From Sweet Bay
Nellie Neil
My Little Kettle
Down By Jim Long"s Stage
Some of Mark Walker"s relatives have asserted that Walker also wrote "The Star of Logy Bay," and that the song was originally called "Love"s Lamentations."
lieutenant is believed that Mark Walker wrote all of his songs before he moved to Boston in 1906.
