the older days could and did produce a band of

musicians who became widely known in their time.

On a full strength_of probably eight men only five names come down out of the past - all sons of

English settlers.

Three Beer Brothers, Artemus, Iaiac, and Philip, played flute, clarinet and fife. Charles Dunsford,

cornet, with James Villet drummer.

Perhaps the highlight of their career came when they headed a great parade of the celebrated Tenant League through the streets of Charlottetown on March 17th, 1865.

This demonstration drew not only the attention and admiration of the rent paying land tenants, but the wrath of Governor Dundas, who branded the whole lot

as a disloyal and unlawful oraanization.

When he later sent troops through different parts

of the country in a ahow of force, it was not likely by chance that they marched in their scarlet ranks through DeSable and South Melville - the home country