whew Frank, Jack, Ivan, and me. Jack, a second-year student at Prince of Wales College, died on February 13th., 1923 -- his nineteenth birthday.

The family name is no longer to be found on the Island.

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My earliest recollection of people and events began sometime in the year 1901. I remember hearing discussions regarding the Boer War which was still in progress, and seeing pictures of troops and transport vessels in the daily newspapers. By this time, the pioneer days of the settlement were far in the past. Modern houses, barns, and outbuildings stood among their sheltering groves of birch and maple. The forest had given place to scores of highly developed farms that produced every sort of crop indigenous to thc climate. Herds of cattle and flocks of sheep grazed in abundant pastures. - Farms were being fenced with wire, replacing the picturesque but space- wasteful old rail enclosures. The most up-to-date machinery was being used on every farm. Great harvests of hay, grain, potatoes, turnips, and other © root crops were raised for home consumption and for shipment abroad. In all respects, prosperity was the symbol of the community. its

As a youngster, I regarded all this as a matter of course. However, when I had added four or five years to my age and had visited other settlements, I was surprised to note that, while a majority of the farm properties | presented every evidence of well-being, there were others with shabby, badly-maintained buildings amd fields with growing crops that appesired poor and neglected. In our community, such conditions were unknown.

Every farm had an assortment of time-consuming tasks which an efbght-

year-old boy was quite capable of performing, and thereby releasing his

elders to more important work.‘ Iiwas the oldest boy in our family by a