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The dwelling house,store, and afterwards foundry, of Waters & Birnie (the foundry was under the management of Mr. um. Hobbs, brother of John Hobbs,a resident of Charlotte;; Town) was situated on.the land later occupied by Judge Rediin who had a store on Queen Stree t and did a considerable shipw 3 ping business on this Water Street site, where he built a t wharf at the foot of his property which afterwards was innedn with a wharf built on hm :astern side by Andrew Duncan, late1§ to be known as the Steam Navigation Wharf. ‘

Crossing Great George Street we come to "Ings' Corner“. This lot, a hundred years ago, belonged to a Mr. Gainsford. He had a bakery attached. 3

Next to Gainsford's was the old Longworth House, E Then came a house owned by William Batt. Coming to the corn f ner later Occupied by Mr. Morris, there was a house and f store occupied by T, Bo Tremaine, who did a general business.p He afterwards conducted the Ferry between10harlotte Town and f

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Southport, adding to its facilities by orovidinga "tear~boat§ _ a fearfully made conce n operated by four ho1ses walki, f

around an upright wind1ass to which was attached a have: gear; which set the paddles in motion, Gp120site Tremaine s on the 3 other side of Queen Street was Peaks 8 corner. The first store built by Feake's was the wooden structure later needy e1 Nicholson' 8 tobacco factory, which was moved from it a form to its present site to make room for the brick building that succeeded it. This brick house was erected by Mr, Peaks as his dwelling, and was in those days one of the finest houses in Charlotte Towu; next to it was a building owned by a Mr. Coombs. ' m we now come to a famous old landmark, the Rankin 3 House. The first house put up on this Pownal St. corner was a dwelling owned by one Antoine, a Frenchman, who was a sur- 3 veyor. It afterwards passed into the possession of Rhaito ’ Webster, being afterwards held by Andrew Duncan, and after that by W. W. Lord, who built a wharf and did quite a large business there. On the other side of Pownal Street, near where Foster's forge later stood, there was an old windmill. Around it were a number of buildings including a well known boarding house kept by a M13. Whelan. Next to Mrs. Whelan's was a house occupied by a Mr. MacLean; and then the barrack fence blocked all progress further west. FORT GEORGE: ; Charlotte Town about the middle of the 19th oen- 3 tury was a garrisoned town — or we might call it so, for ‘ then we had a company of permanent soldiers, with their