Now that I've properly come to grips with the "Mr. Coaker" song and sung it through a few times, it seems likely to me that the first three verses date from the early days of the Fishermen's Protective Union, circa 1910, but that the fourth verse was added in the 1990s by someone involved in the revitalisation of the town of Port Union. The modern author tells Coaker's shade that the residents STILL are strong-spirited and will REBUILD his town, the future of which BEGAN JUST YESTERDAY, that is, yesterday when the ground-fish moratorium was imposed.