house was hauled on the ice from Mt. Herbert to Doylcs Point. Was the transported house from the second Driscoll farm? It was apparently quite common to haul buildings around on the ice in this fashion. The Doyle family would certainly be very excited at the prospect of moving from a small log house into a two-story 'modern" home. The second house was called the Pippy house, (named, in all likelihood, for it's previous owners or occupants) and was hauled on the ice from Mt. Herbert using a 'capstan* and horses. A capstan is a device with a vertical spindle around which a rope was wound. At right angles to the spindle was a bar or bars to which the force was applied, in this case by horses. Fullcrton's Marsh bridge was not completed until 1884, so the house could be hauled without the bridge being a barrier. PIERCE ( PIERY ) DOYLE , Second Child of James Doyle and Margaret Lacey Piery was probably the most successful in business of any of the children of James and Margaret Doyle. Because he was a town councilor in Summcrside and a builder of bridges, more information about him has survived. Census records indicate that Piery was born in P.E.I , in 1833. I can find no church record of this birth. He was, in all probability, named after his grandfather Piery Lacey. By 1856 Piery was on his own, living in Chariottetown and running a tavern. The year before, in 1855, gas streetlights were installed in pans of Chariottetown. Perhaps it was in or near this very tavern that an incident involving his uncle Piery Lacey, a local blacksmith, occurred. The Royal Gazette reported it this way. : July 7th Pierce Lacey for using lewd and profane language and behavior toward George Hix ; convicted and fined 10s, with costs or to be imprisoned for 48 hours. (This was not to be the last legal encounter involving Piery Doyle and his clc Piery Lacey. Piery was not satisfied with life as a publican. Summcrside was a booming town in the 1860's and Piery , hearing this probably decided to try his luck there Hy 1863 he was living in Summcrside and married to Johanna Sullivan from the in Clinton. They were living at the comer of in 1864, and Piery s occupation was given as a "joiner". That jycar their first daughter Margaret was born and two years later they lost their first son, James Lawrence , as an infant. At this time Piery is described in the Book Roads to Sumrnerside. When the Progress editor set forth on that July day of 1866 to make a call on the shipyards, he also had a word to say on 'the workshops of Summcrside,' which conveys some idea of what a busy place it was....of Pierce Doyle he says 'He is what may be termeda handyman- cabinet maker, house builder and house mover. He is one of the progressive young men of Sumrnerside.' (MacLeod 86) 31