Mrs. Gladys ulligan (Courtesy of Mrs. Gladys Mulligan)

AP. Mulligan Senior Citizens Court, Kinkora (Author’s Collection)

Community leaders around Kinkora area did not overlook the important contributions senior members make to a thriving community. In the early 1960s, when the RBI. government began providing financial assistance to build senior citizens homes throughout the province, Kinkora’s village commissioners, Arnold McIver, Vernon McCarville and George Richards pursued plans for such a home in Kinkora.“1 In addition to the existing church,

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recreational facilities, stores and restaurants, the village had

installed a modern sewage system and street lighting by 1962.42 Mrs. Gladys Mulligan donated four acres of land for

the project; and in November, 1966 a new six-apartment senior citizens’ home was opened, and named the AP. Mulligan Senior Citizens Court, in honor of Mrs. Mulligan’s late husband, Aden P. Mulligan.43 As a conse- quence, senior citizens who would otherwise have retired in an urban centre now had the opportunity to remain close

to their home neighbourhoods and continue to help to build them. The four double and two single units in the home were quickly occupied and a waiting list was form-

ed, showing the need for even more similar housing, and confidence in the future of this rural community.

Notes and References for Chapter 11:

1. “Farmers Hold Meetings at Kinkora Halli’ Guardian, September 22, 1951, p. 15.

2. Handbook of Agricultural Statistics, Part 1, Field Crops, Potatoes, Prince Edward Island, 1959, p. 117 (Dominion Bureau of Statistics, Ottawa).