retarded in Canada . There were ten charter members and the first officers elected were Lloyd Matthews , O'Leary , president; Mrs. Ruth Millman , Alberton , 1st vice-president; James Milligan , Northam , 2nd vice-piesident; Mrs. Stanley Gaudet , Howlan , secretary; and Eva J. Dennis , O'Leary , treasurer. Three years later in 1960, after many meetings and several fund raising projects, the West Prince Association for Retarded Children hired their first teacher - Beverley Anne MacGregor (later Boates, Makin ) of Graham's Road, P.E.I. , to teach in O'Leary two days a week and in Tignish and Alberton three half-days each. Enrolment at that time was O'Leary - 6, Alberton - 3, and Tignish - 8. In 1962 a special classroom was designed in O'Leary Regional High School, the first of its kind in P.E.I. By 1965 Beverley MacGregor Boates was the full time teacher in O'Leary and the West Prince Association for the Mentally Retarded had become the O'Leary Branch of the P.E.I. Division of the Canadian Association of Retarded Children, subsequently changed to the Canadian Association of the Mentally Retarded and presently to the non-labelling title of the Canadian Association for Community Living. It was the members of this association who on October 18, 1968, looked at the feasibility of establishing a sheltered workshop for the adult handicapped to provide training and education for those too old for the school system. In March, 1969, the association decided to purchase the property of Mrs. Ruth Silliker , , O'Leary , and used the house there as a sheltered workshop. 152