Neil purchased the store for $5,500, and the price included most of the fitments. The list included 3 scales, a cheese cutter, a drinking fountain, an ice chest, a Christie Biscuit stand, four paper cutters, an adjustable show stand, a revolving clothes rack, a spool cabinet, 3 show cases, one cash register, an account register, one wallpaper stand, a roll top desk, a safe, two hanging lamps, a kerosene and a gasoline measuring pump, a steel low wheeled wagon, a peddling wagon, measuring scoops, a meat saw, a base burner and a stove (20).

' ———-— * ,-,, Neil was noted in the 1920s Atlas as a merchant and ° - vendor of seed potatoes (22). The building burned on May 3rd | Flre Yaterday 1929 and was replaced by a smaller structure (23,24). Neil is

At Bonshaw mentioned in the 1924/25, 1929/30, and 1935 directories but is

absent from the 1950 edition where he is listed as a farmer Yesterday morning ll:- Nefl Pu“. (25,26,27,28). In the late 1930s Fannie Beaton ran this store for

mm“- W"- ”“5“ ‘ 5““ a couple of years (30). loss by‘flrc when his “we. Immune.

if; 2:13;“. mfinWIl It reopened as the Tartan Gift Shop by Mr Fraser 0f

pm 0; m. mum. a m, m, Montague, who ran it for the summers of 1956 and 1957. A son floors were saved but. the m pan of the Frasers was a piper and could be often heard playing in the

of the stock “3 “Wat hills to the south of the village (23,30).

The “re Ls supposed to but mm In the upper 35am or the m. This property was purchased from Mr. J. A. Robertson now in Charlottetown, about, 12 years ago. I ‘

The store was about 40m, 1nd bad 1 two stories. 1

Thctotallossvriubelmmmto $10,000.

Neil Ferguson's Store circa 1935 courtesy of Eric Ferguson

BEATON'S

There was a second Beaton store, this one operated by L. Theophilus 'Toff Beaton. It was built in the early 1930s (before 1935 (54)). It operated as a general store, selling groceries and feed until about 1946, when it was converted into a restaurant called the Bonshaw Inn. About 1960 it closed and the building was used as a warehouse and a dance hall. In about 1965 it was converted again and used as a nursing home until the early 19705 (21). In 1988 a store was reopened in the building but was closed after only a few months (29).

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