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ed, which supplied timber not only to the local shipyard, but also to shipbuiléers in Charlotte- town99 For the Gherlottetewn trade, the lumber was hauled down the east bank of the river in late winter and piled on the shere where the House of Dolls stends today. After the spring breakup, great rafts were built and towed out the herbour

and down the coast.'

It was often said that after these hard working lumbermen squared up for the food supplies, which they drew all winter from the ship owners,.very little was left to show for their mighty work in the bush. The are alone was their only weapon in the "Battle of the Tall Timbers“, but many of these men were so expert in the see of this instrument

that their deeds would sound lncrediblbetoday.

An attempt was made in the early 18503e to make DeSable a shipping port. Young men, sons of settlers, built a smell wharf on MscKsy shore near a site of a small wharf teeny. The project ended in failure

when the first schooner loaded went aground in try-

ing to clear the channel at the sea entrance. Never