-55- day. "We hadn't to go far for the timber then. It was solid almost from the river bank, and the same from there to New Glasgow , only a road had been stumped out through it. After leaving the shipyard, I moved down to Stanley, then called Fyfe's Ferry. Got myself a little place, built a blacksmith shop and settled down. There was no bridge in Stanley then. A big log canoe was the ferry and the horses swam across the river. The ferry canoe was run by William Fyfe . He charged three pence for a single passenger, eight pence for a horse. When people came to have gigs, the ferryman's way of taking them over was to run its axle over the canoe with the wheels hanging in the water on either side. It cost about a shilling for this. With the increase in travel, the ferryman made a good bit of money. "It was considered a great improvement when he got a big scow propelled by two long oars in place of the canoe. The Government provided the scow and gave so much money be¬ sides for the service. In the scow a team of horses, wagon and all could be ferried over at once. The route of the ferry was a little above the present bridge. I have often gone down to the shore at night with people on their way from town, and hollered to the ferryman to come and take them over. The old man would be on the lookout for passen¬ gers, but when he and the boys were away, the girls would put a passenger over. "People generally went to town on horseback, tro or three of them the same day for company. Mr -o Fyfe came from Paisley, Scotland , and was one of the first settlers of this place. He ran the ferry a long time. As travel increased something better than, a ferry was needed, "The first to drive a horse across Stanley Bridge was Hon . George Coles and with him was Edward Whalen . They came up to view its completion." J.L.M .