Qe Hunter River. The rest of the party proceeded to locations on the Old Post Road, the Colville Road, and on what later came to be known as the Cameron Road. My great-grandfather built his cabin on the spot where my old home -:

still stands; the original cellar-hole formed a part of the present day

cellar. | BT

THE EARLY YEARS '

In the Old Country, the Scots had been either fishermen ont shee pahenders ; the Irish had been farmers. For all of them, it was now a matter of starting from scratch: felling trees, building their log shelters, and seeding the freshly cleared ground to start an urgently needed first crope This would consist almost entirely of potatoes and vegetables that they had planted among the stumps. They were handicapped by a shortage of the necessary tools; because of space limitations on shipboard, they had been able to bring only a small part of their actual needs. And, although none was poor, none was exactly affluent; furthermore, they were obliged to conserve their ready money to provide for their families until the land could be brought into production. They were, therefore, able to purchase only the nna t | essential equipment from local supply sources, and were compelled to rely on their own skills and ingenuity to fashion substitutes for what they could not buy. Nothing daunted, they set to work with the means at hand, and by unremitting labor and by pooling their resources they accomplished objectives that, at times, must have seemed impossible of attainment.

Their food supply offered little by way of variety. At least two, and Sometimes all three, of their daily meals consisted mainly of porridge. Meat was a luxury to be enjoyed but sparingly -- usually on Sunday. At least a year would elapse before they could expect beef or pork of their own producing; until they could acquire a cow and a few hens, milk and

6éggs were likewise in scant supply. Unquestionably, those early years were