Arbing's blacksmith shop. Will actually ran the district's first conven¬ ience store selling not only Red Indian, Cyclone, and then Imperial brands of gasoline and motor oil, but also tobacco products, ale, and candy. The original station and several cars were mysteriously destroyed by fire shortly after the building was moved; however, a new station was built on the same site which Will operated until the early 1950s. Sheldon Dixon bought the building in 1961 and used a small part of it as a garage for his car. The building has since been demolished. Sheldon sold Irving gasoline and oil products at his general store until Donald Lord opened his Esso station at The Corner. Donald had purchased the corner lot on the east side of the Crossroad in 1955 and built a filling station and garage facing the Trans . Donald operated his station at The Corner until 1970 when Esso decided they should build a large modern station about a half mile up the road on land they had purchased from Arthur Thomson . Donald operated the new station for a year and a half before deciding to leave the filling station business. Esso hired John Muttart to operate the business until Louis McCourt took over for a short time in 1972. A Freetown resident then operated the station until Esso shut it down in 1974. Esso sold the station to Judy and David Giesbrecht who converted it to a workshop and residence. Donald Lord continued to offer a repair and welding service from his garage at The Corner, servicing cars, trucks, and farm machinery. He attended Marine Navigation School in Summerside in 1977 and the following year closed his garage and accepted a position with CN Marine in Yarmouth. Donald still resides at The Corner and is em¬ ployed as a First Mate on the car ferry MV Abegweit, Borden. There is no longer a Filling Station in North Tryon ; the nearest is in Crapaud . First Snowmobile Looking back to the late 1930s, it is hard to realize that although many cars were in use, winter traveling by car was very limited. When the roads became blocked by snow, traveling had to be done by horse and sleigh with all the attendant delights, or otherwise, of slues, pitches and detours through fields and farm yards. Two of our young men, who were mechanically inclined, decided to attempt a change for something better. Sterling and Ernest Lord designed a snowmobile. Their first machine was built on a Ford chassis, remodeled to suit the width of sleigh tracks. The front end was mounted on runners controlled from a steering wheel; the rear end had wide wooden wheels which carried it up well and gave very good traction on the sleigh tracks. This machine performed satisfactorily, but they decided to try an entirely different type of vehicle. The second machine was also built on a remodeled chassis and 93