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in t6wfi.' nexthame the residence of a Mr. Macdonnell, a carpenter, whose father came to Charlottetownrirnmsthe United States to build barracks fur the militsrgu He must have liked this Island, for he tooh”up~his insidenee here.” He had a fine orchard at the bank ufifihis hfiusef.uhiehuwps‘ often surreptitiously visitedghyzthethys inwthstfruit“seae a, son; A Mr. Booms lived in the fourttshhssegswhare he keptflx; a crockery store. The next house was oceanisdihy‘Ja‘Wll- liens, who bought and sold sounfif? Produse, and seemed always busy. He-must have.been in the employ of dense Peaks: Esq., Sr., for he was generally known as "Peake’s Bed Wilu liams". His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Mr. Chappell, postmaster, and she had, previous to 1842, held the respons-

ible position of postmistress. And now we come to the Trenaman watchmaking and

jewellry and silverware; these were always reliable, although the articles were not numerous. He had a large family of sons and daughters. Adjoining Mr. Trenaman‘s store was the late mr. Robert weeks' shoe shop, and under the same roof lived a Mr. Pickard, whom we recall as a saddler. At the corner of Great George and Grafton Streets (Nbva Scotia Bank corner) there was at this time a low, two storied house, which was owned and had been occupied by my. Soloman DesBrisayo As the landwas very low and boggy at that cor- ner, one would imagine the house was sinking into the ground, for the front door was rather below the level of the street. The house in 1844 was occupied by Hon. J. So Mhodonald; after- wards a MrD Khughan. About 1850 Hons Patrick Walker bought the house and land, and did business on that corner for many yearsv Between the corner house and Mr. Pickard's was Mrs. DesBrisayfis stable, another one by which Queen Square was orn- amented. About 1845 or '46, mr. Jg B. Cox, who came to this Island from Newfoundlandg bought the piece of land on which was the DesBrisay stable, and built a good house and store on its hr. Cox afterwards lived at Mbrell, and died therea He a was the father of M1. Bannerman Cox, proprietor of the Seaview Hotel, Souris. Right across Great George Street from Walker‘s corner, as it was called for many years, was Smardon's Corner (now Capitol Theatre). This building was a two-vstoried one, Hr, Smardon was a saddler. He sold his property sometime toward the end of the sixties to Mr. Beales, and then left the Island with his wife and son. Mr. Beales held the corner for many yearsg and it took his name.

' Along a little farther east from Smardon's cor- ner was the Faught property a long one-storied range with