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=57- dwelling and shops attached. Mr. Faught was a shoemaker, ar Englishman and a man much respected. One of his daughters 7 married My. William Boyle, tanner and curriere 5

At every corner at that time was a blacksmith shopg a tailor shop, a shoe shop, a carriage shop, a machine shop,fi or a rum shop. All these were busy; they had two or three apprentices all the time.

Charlotte Town was a busy little town in those'day; at Spring Park there was a crockery factory making milk pansé crooks and jars out of our red clay. There was Boyle's tan-h nery buying up all kinds of hides; there were a dozen men sag ployed there, and there were four or five more tann eries irfi the town. Dougald's furniture factory was a busy place, ,I% followed by John Newson's big factory and storehouse. Wrigifi & Coo, (successors to their uncle mark Butcher) had a furnp ” iture making store. White & Sons ran a factory making mow-= T ing and reaping machines, and there was a large woolen fact-g ory employing 20 to 50 peOplo. John Cairns was the first g marble tombstone worker. Milner ran a big tinsmith businessg — sending out peddlers with his wares all through the Islarr? A large number of house carpenters Were employed in town and; country, lime plasterers, ship builders, and taverns, too h many to count. Robert Young ran a large millinery and hat 3 factory, many of the girls from town.and country went there f to learn the art of dress and hat making. ”

Coming into the town from the west, at Queen's Arms, we turned to the right to Spring Fark. The Town~was divided into districts: Spring Park, Black Sam's Bridge, West Bog, East Bog, Gallows Hill, etc. Black Sam lived by ¢ his bridge in a little cabin. %

The big stores had men carrying their advertising % on a signboard on their backs; these men marched all round ii the Square on Market Days; it was a good deal cheaper than the Guardian! The Town Crier, too, marched around Queen 1 Square ringing his bell, and crying at the top of his leothéé lungs "A sale on Pownal Wharf! The packet just brought 4O “ barrels of good herring to be sold at two o'clock. Oh yesl" Must be sold. Oh! Yes, at two o'clock! 3

The churches were: St. James” Kirk, the Scottish‘é Free and Seceeder Churches, the Methodist, and Bible Christ,“ ian Chapels, the English Church and the Roman Catholic t Church. The original buildings are all gone. ;

There was a town well on many cornersbawooden punqfi with wooden troughs for watering horses. Robert Percival “ kept the pumps in repair. Town lamps were at every corner,;x and men went round with a long rod to light them every night5

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