delivered it, along with the usual accompaniments of dressing, potato, vegetables, gravy, and dessert, to Charlie for his noon time meal. Charlie’s appetite may have exceeded that of his contemporaries!

It was a pretty sight to view the closely cropped marshlands dotted with beehive stacks. After haying was completed, the farmers scheduled an appropriate time to remove the gates from the bridge. When the larger bridge was constructed 1n 1938 1t was impossible to use the gates, and the working of the marshland ceased.

The marshlands still lure the hunter, trapper, and angler. Many a tale is told, however exaggerated, as to the number of ducks or geese bagged the opening day of the fall season or the five pound, salt water, rainbow-speckled trout pulled from the cool waters at the T1yon Forks,

as the locals called it. Situated on the banks of this river were: Tryon East (the Lower

Victoria Road area), West Tryon (the Point Road), Tryon River (the Aboiteau Bridge area), North Tryon (the Woolen Mills area); and North West Tryon (North T on). It was not until 1914 that North West Tryon became North Tryon. 9

About one hundred years after the first settlers arrived, the Island Directory of 1871 provided a list of the Tryon Corner (Tryon) and North Tryon (the Woolen Mills area) households and their occupations. Tryon Corner had a population of 100, and North Tryon had a population of 150. Occupations listed for these residents included: farmer, spinner, trader, engineer, blacksmith, milliner, carpenter, phy- sician, carder, architect, cloth finisher, hotel keeper, loom fixer, shoe maker, post master, and harness maker.20

The Corner

The Comer, the area surrounding the junction of North Tryon’s three main roads, has been the hub of the community since it was first settled in the late 17005. The Trans Canada Highway, originally called the Bedeque Road, runs northwest in a straight line through the community and is intersected by the Crossroad and the Ives’ Road. The Crossroad runs southwest from the Trans Canada to the Cape Traverse Road; Ives’ Road runs northeast towards Mount Tryon. The Crossroad meets the Trans Canada less than 100 feet southeast of the lves’ Road.

Robert Muirhead farmed on the Bedeque Road at The Corner in the early 18005. Robert’s family, sons, James and John, and daughters, Martha and Phoebe, carried on business in the Muirhead name until the early 19005. James and John farmed Robert’s land, and John operated a general store, while Martha and Phoebe operated a dry goods store, millinery shop, and post office on the southeast side of the Bedeque Road at The Corner. The intersection was called Muirheadis Comer at that time. 21Eventually the store closed, the Muirhead farm

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