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Makers Danile Frazer and Mr. Dreelan. (The Guide does not specify at what exact time these people followed these trades in Orwell, but tries to create a picture of the occupations being carried

on at the 1895 period recreated at Orwell Corner).

Other nearby businesses provided services or work to the people of Orwell. Arthur Gillis owned a barber shop in Orwell Cove. John Finley kept a hotel in Vernon. There was a lobster factory in the Pinette area. Joe Bradley operated a carding mill in Millview. Donald Nicholson was a tanner in Orwell Cove. Medical services were available various days at Vernon River by

Dr. J. P. Murray and Dr. Ceilings. (Orwell Guide)

Schools and churches were also a focus in the life of the community. The first school had been built in Orwell in 1825. This was a log structure. located oposite the present McKenna Drive; it served both Orwell and Vernon. In 1839, Nilliam Ross from Pictou, Nova Scotia, was teaching in this school on Murdoch MacLeod's farm. About 1850, this site was abandoned for a site at Orwell crossroads where another log building was built which was later moved to Orwell north (to a site on the farm later owned by Alexander MacKinnon). with John Brooks from Murray Harbour as its first teacher in 1855-56. A frame structure was later built on this same site. But as boundaries of the districts of Orwell and Vernon River shifted it too was abandoned and another school was built at the crossroads in 1895. The structure that still stands as part of the site at Orwell Corner. Classes were held from 9:30 to 3:30 for the 10 grades the school housed. (MacQueen's

Skye Pioneers) The rate payers of the district were responsible