-36- In town. Mext came the residence of a Mr, Macdonnell, a carpenter, whose father came to Chariottetowii fxoja the United States to "build barracks fajf the milita^* He must hare liked this Island, for h& took «p his »|gidenee here. He had a fine orchard at the "back' §£;&£$ hdu^j-jstb^^ las often surreptitiously visited; hy the "boys i & *tat f^uit-sea*- , son. A Mr. Roome lived in the fourth^teu^efc.whjBr©' 1st kept u crockery store. The next house was occa^Kted "by" J « Wil¬ liams-, who bought and sold sounfry produce* and seemed always busy. He must have been in the employ of James Peaker Esq., Sr., for he was generally known as "Peake's Red Wil¬ 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 (Nova Scotia Bank corner) there was at this time a low, two storied house, which was owned and had been occupied by Mr. Soloman DesBrisay. As the land was 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 I844 was occupied by Hon . J. S » Macdonald; after¬ wards a Mr0 Koughan. About 1850 Hon » Patrick Walker bought the house and land, and did business on that corner for many years. Between the corner house and Mr. Pickard 's was Mrs. DesBrisay8s stable, another one by which was orn¬ amented. About I845 or '46, Mr. J * B. Cox , who came to this Island from Newfoundland , bought the piece of land on which was the DesBrisay stable, and built a good house and store on it. Mr. Cox afterwards lived at Morell , and died there,. He was the father of Mr. Bannerman Cox * proprietor of the Seaview Hotel, Sourls. Right across Great from Walker's corner, as it was called for many years, was Smardon's Corner (now Capitol Theatre). This building was a two-storied one. Mr. 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 yeara, and it took his name. Along a little farther east from Smardon's cor¬ ner was the Paught property a long one-storied range with