-57- went further than St. John's. The last voyage -was from Philadelphia with a general cargo for Barbadoes in the Brit¬ ish . They were wrecked on a reef; the crew was saved hut vessel and cargo were a total loss. The black people of Barbadoeswere kind to them and took thea to An¬ tigua. From there they got to Charleston, South Carolina , and later to few York , thence to Halifax in February 1619- Winter communication at that time with Prince Edward Island was impossible, so they stayed in Halifax all winter. About that time - 1820, there was a lull in ship¬ building. It picked up again about 18 J 0 vihen ships were built for trada with the British Isles. In this project they were joined by their cousin Chas. Gregor, and vessels of some 224 tons ware turned out. Keil McCallum went to Ireland with two of these vessels, and deal to load them with. All the boards which covered the first houses and barns intra sawn over the sawpits common in these days. Shingles for the roofs were- made by splitting fir blocks 16 inches Ion?; into thin sheets, the end being reversed every time a shingle was taken off. The dwellings were log houses, the spaces being stuffed with moss and then covered with clapboards, ohells were gathered from the shore and burned to get lime for plaster, but a plastered house was a luxury enjoyed by few. The first road bo the Gulf from Chirlottetown was the Cove and for many years this one road served for the Brackley foint and Malpeque peo-ol^. To illustrate* in 1790 when Catherine McKay , mother of Duncan MacCallum , died at Oyster Bed Bridge , where she was visiting her son- in-law, Alex. Anderson (who had not yet settled in Bedeque ), her body had to be moved by canoa across through the narrows, into the Brackley Point Harbor , out of which the canoe passed into the Gulf, from the Gulf into Long ?ond. xhis was an old burying clace where the early French set¬ tlers of that part of the Island buried their dead. It mm not an admirable place for a cemetery, but at all events it is one of the oldest burying grounds on Prince Edward Island aid contained a great number of the bodies of the pioneer settlers. (For the foregoing description of pioneer days we quote from the Soar ?-n's report of '37 from historical notes in manuscript left by Mr. Hubert iaoCalium .)