6 - ed, which supplied timber not only to the local shipyard, hut a3so to shipbuilders in Charlotte- town, - Eor the Oharlottetown trade, the lumher was hauled down the aaet bank of the river in late winter and piled on the shore where the House of Dolls stands today. After the spring breakup, great rafts were built and towed out the harbour 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 wa3 left to show for their mighty work in the bush. The axe alone was their only weapon in tho "Battle of the fall Timbers", but many of these men were so expert in the use of this instrument that their deeds would sound lncredibl&etoday. An attempt was made in the aarly 1850He to make DeSable a shipping port. Young men, sons of settlers, built a small wharf on MacKay shore near a site of a small wharf today. The project ended in failure when the first schooner loaded went aground in try¬ ing to clear the channel at the sea entrance. Never \