However, in the evenings and during the winter months she enjoyed her time indoors and utilized her "spare” time making quilts and hooking rugs.

"I think we had more time than people have now. I’ve never =2. regretted living on the farm and _ I’ve always worked outside when ‘ I could,” she said.

_ After Mr. MacNeill passed away,

Mrs. MacNeill continued to oper ' ate the milk delivery business ~ until 1950 with help from her three daughters and two sons - Jean, Glenn, Lorraine, Firth and Ready to deliver milk circa 1944. Claire.

The initiative and hard work demonstrated by the MacNeill cou- ple many years ago, during the great depression, should be an inspi- ration to the people in West Prince.

JACK PATE’S MEAT MARKET

Jack Pate, son of Peter N. Pate and Margare MacLaughlan, was born in O'Leary in 1899. He was educated in the local school in Unionvale, and in Charlottetown at Union Commercial College. When he was nine- teen, he opened a meat market between his father’s store (RN. Pate) and H.W. Turner’s. He operated his own abattoir (locally known 5 ”The Slaughterhouse"), where over the years he employed Nelson Dennis, Stephen and Peter Gotell, Trueman Pate Uack's son), 1“" Pa“ “1"?" i" 1965- Arthur Gallant, and George MacDonald Sr.

Jack obtained his bologna from Canada Packers in Moncton and Saint John. There was no charge for bologna, liver, tongue, or heart and it was said ”every kid that went by, Jack called in for a free slice of bologna”.

The meat market had a back room that was the favoured meeting place of many of the older men in the village. After picking up their mail, they would often sit around the fire in winter, discuss politics, get involved in a challenging game of cards, or simply catch up on

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