A HISTORY OF CANOE COVE

THE ROCKWELIS. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Rockwell bought a house from Joe MacKenzie and they live there with their family.

THE RODGERS.

George, a close friend of the Chester MacDonalds, retired from Ontario and bought the Jim MacKenzie house. After he got nicely established in the Cove he married Irene also of Ontario.

THR ROGERSONS. Richard Rogerson came from Dumfries, Scotland with his father John in 1840. John's farm was located in Lot 30 according to The Island Magazine (Glen, 1991). He married Judith Simmons from Crapaud and apparently bought land from Big Donald’s father and built a house there. He was a blacksmith and his shop was beside Neil MacEachern’s house, evidently on the MacLean land or perhaps it was MacNeill's then. His family was:

. Leonard who married Hannah (MacNevin?) from the Brae area and lived there.

Robert who lived with his sister, Edith Anne Currie.

Artemus bought a farm belonging to Colin MacEachern, across from what is now Charles MacNevin‘s and married Annie MacPhee from St. Catherine‘s. Annie's son George an intelligent man, became a lawyer, a judge and a Member of Parliament for Yorkton, Saskatchewan. Artie and Annie had two sons and one daughter:

Richard enlisted and was killed in the First World War.

Earl had also enlisted, married Katie MacNeill from DeSable and went to Summerside to live after the war. Earl and Katie had two sons, Richard and Walter.

. Myrtle married Henry Campbell from

Nme Mile Creek and they had one child which died in

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