have in your home because they were all brought up in the country and everybody was about the same in those days and lived about the same. A There was a lot of TB [tuberculosis] in those days.... Sometimes a whole family would have TB. And they hardly ever got better. It just went on and on. That's one thing I see that they've come a long way with. There's very little of that now. You see, there was no place to go, and they weren't isolated. A big family sort of all lived together. A lot of families went out [died] when they were quite young. And of course, there was no such a thing as any checking on the schools. If you were young, it must have been quite a thing to know that you weren't going to get better, wasn't it? I suppose they would [know] if there had been more of it in the family. Or if more of the family had been taken with it. That really would be suffering itself. There was quite a few young people had it. And then, I suppose, there were older people had it and never done a thing about it till they passed out. It really was a contagious thing, there isn't a doubt. Most of them never really did get back. But in the last years, if people had a trace of it and they went to the San1 and got all the rest [they needed], there's very few that passed away. The Train Somehow or other they always managed to have an outfit for you to go to church. Then, it was quite a thing when you got something new. Really it was. And you got dressed up the very best. Course, years ago, there was stores in Montague. People got that they could drive to Montague with the horses and wagon. Well, that was just like getting things from New York , wasn't it? Course, once the train came, that was quite a thing. People could always go in town [ Charlottetown ] and get what they wanted as long as they had money enough to get it. From , I think it was only something like a dollar at one time. But, of course, it went up after that. Even so, I miss the train yet. They had very comfortable seats. They even had a first and a second class, if you don' t mind. Course, the first class was kind of plushy. But the second class was a sort of a leather seat. Two rows of seats, a row on each side. Something like a bus. It was a wonderful convenience if you didn't have 1. The Provincial Sanatorium, where cases of tuberculosis were treated. 184 BELFAST PEOPLE