Table 10:2, P.E.I. Net Farm Income for6
selected years

1927 - $ 8,604,000.
1928 - 7,520,000.
1931 - 2,233,000.
1932 1,695,000.
1933 2,179,000.
1940 - 4,383,000.
1941 — 4,553,000.
1942 - 8,321,000.
1948 - 12,440,000.
1949 - 12,417,000.

The difficulties farmers experienced during the depression
and the war were major reasons for the severe problem fac-
ing the farming sector: As Table 10:3 shows the farming
population, the number of farms and the area being
cultivated in P.E.I. were all declining.

Table 10:3, P.E.I. Farming, 1931-19517
Farm Population No. of Farms Area of Improved Land

1931: 55,478 12,865 766,000 acres
1941: 51,067 12,230 737,000 acres
1951: 46,855 10,137 646,000 acres

 

This decline in farming seems to have been also true in the
five communities, because during the 19405 eighteen farms
were sold by auction; ten during the years 1940 and 1941,
alone.8

In the midst of those gloomy conditions a few people in
Kinkora sought a solution in more education. In 1939 Sister
Mary Henry (Catherine Mulligan) C.S.M. returned for her
second term as Principal of Kinkora school. She found only
a small number of students going on for further education.

 

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Sister Mary Henry, C.S.M.

 

(Courtesy of Sisters of St. Martha)

 

V. Ear] Duffy
(Courtesy of the Duffy Family)

 

John R. McCabe
(Courtesy of Bernard McCabe)