family farm and the one-room community schools. Some regard the changes as so momentous as to represent the dismantling of the Island way of life.8 It would be a strug— gle for many Island communities just to hold on.

Statistics on the farm—related changes in the five com— munities in this study are not available, but the statistics for RBI. in general, and for Townships 26 and 27 in particular, give us some ideas how those changes probably affected the

communities around Kinkora. Table 11:2 shows the chang—