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as "Chust", as boys we remember him with his massive beard, sitting on the home porch reading from his

great Gaelic Bible.

POST OFFICE - The first Post Office in DeSable

was established sometime between 1852.~.l855 at

the home of a Mr. Mackinnon near the_site 6: the school. Mail fras bnariottetown 55s delivered to the .Post Office on Monday and Friday;

Meacham's Atlas 1880 names John Dixon as Postmastér at entrance to Todd Road. Postmaster of 1900, situated just east of school, was John MacDougall, a

rather snuffy old soot, known to his neighbours as

"The Pepper Box".

Rural delivery service came to the district from Charlottetown in 1913 when the last office - Mrs.

J. D. MacFarlane as Postmistress, was closed out.

'Little' Neil MacNevin, a veteran mail driver, and John McManus of Bonshaw were the first couriers on

the new rural service, followed later by William

McManus.

These were dedicated men who rezarded the delivery