it to Desmond and Zeke Roberts in 1951, who operated it until 1957; since then it has been owned and operated by George and Linda Roberts, as a store and arcade as well as a restaurant; and now is twice the size of the original building.

Local sports in the 19405 received a boost with the arrival of Bill McGuigan, an employee of PL. Morris, in Kinkora. Bill organized and coached midget, and junior softball teams, and coached the Kinkora senior baseball team, which was a member of the Prince County Baseball League. On most Sunday afternoons during the summers the ball field was the centre of attraction for local and visiting teams. It was a welcome opportunity for young people to mingle with visitors from other parts of P.E.I., often of dif— ferent ethnic and religious backgrounds. In the winter months hockey and ice—skating were the main sports. Kinkora had more success in this sport than in baseball, and its team, Kinkora Silver Wings won the Bedeque Trophy

1:11” I M “Illgan, owner of stallion, Jollity 20:5.4 (Courtesy of Lowell Mulligan)

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Lma C. Scott, Winning In 2:11 at Halifax; driver: MoreSIde; owner: John W. Farmer, Kinkora. (Courtesy of Farmer Family) five years in a row.32 Considering that there was no rink in Kinkora, other than the backyard ones made by young boys, their wins are impressive. Bedeque’s indoor rink, where most games were played, also provided an attractive place for young people to drive to, by horse-and-sleigh, for general skating. There were plenty of choices for the young men to get on hockey teams; in addition to Kinkora’s Silver Wings there were the Middleton Bombers and the Freetown Royals; boys from the five communities were members of all three teams.

HOrse-racing fans in these communities had much praise for John T. (J onny) Mulligan, the blacksmith in Kinkora, when he brought the stallion, J ollity (2.05 Mi) to his stable in 1949.33 Colts sired by this horse would be successful on racetracks in the Maritime Provinces and Eastern United States in the following decade.34

In the following year, 1950, Robert Shea and Pope McMahon opened a new race track in Kinkora, after a lapse of forty years since the Ronaghan track.

Linus Mulligan, son of John T. Mulligan, was an owner of a racer Tiny Budlong. Other racing horse owners includ— ed John W. Farmer and Stanley Mayhew.