A HISTORY OF CANOE COVE n

Many of the young people had to go “away" to find work. In Massachussets and other states we would find thousands of descendents of our Island people. Western Canada was also opening up then and many of our people went there to earn a living and never came back. We have exported lawyers, doctors, ministers, teachers and nurses as well as others who rose in their chosen professions or trades. Their names (that is the ones who left) have become well known in many cases, but we should also recognize the ones who had to stay behind to look after parents and mind the family farm and fishery. They too, deserve our respect, and of thOSe one could say “Well done, thou good and faithful servant. "

If the remarks on the people read like the Biblical “begats”, it is intentional, and if it helps a reader to trace his ancestors and where they lived it has served its main purpose. Many of the people had the same name so some means had to be devised to identify them. It is a Scots custom to add a parent’s name, usually the fathers to the child, such as Johnny (child) Dugald (father). Less commonly it was the mother's, such as Duncan Mary. Sometimes the grandfather‘s name was added as I heard my husband talk about Sam Donald Dougall the other day. Sometimes a trade was used as in Neil Cooper. Sometimes a place as in JOhnny In (In the Woods). A good example of the latter occurred about 1915 when there were three Sadie MacKinnons going to school. They were Sadie Hughie Duncan, Sadie Johnny Dougall and Sadie Quincy. Sadie Quincy was a niece of Duncan and Neil MacCannell and came from Quincy, Massachussetts. Sadie's mother died when the children were young and Sadie was sent to the Island to stay with relatives for a few years. There are many instances in these writings where the children were left fatherless or motherless or both and were cared for by kind relatives. This kindness and sense of duty was well

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