86 PAST AND PRESENT OF erly direction, was another inland village of some note at a shortly later date. It also had its store, its tavern, its blacksmith and carpenter shops. About this time began the stage driving, for the carrying of mails and passengers, and this continued until the rail¬ way was built, Kensington and ' Rest being important'points through which the stage passed. In these early days traffic between the mainland and this province was carried on by small schooners. Halifax and were the two points with which trading was done, and naturally in the small bays in this province where there was any considerable depth of water centres of business activity were created and flour¬ ished. But after the railway came numbers of these fell into decay, while business cen¬ tres along the line developed. Both St. Eleanor's and ' Rest have gone backward. Part of the cause was, undoubt¬ edly, the fact that the railway did not pass through these villages. But the principal cause originated before the advent of the railroad—it was the growth of Summerside . After the Old Town road was pushed through to St. Eleanor's, or possibly even earlier than that, a rough road was made south from this village to reach the houses of the Darbys. On the eastern side also a road had gradually opened out from Bedeque and along part of the old Indian trail to ' Rest. From this an offshoot started, from what is now known as Read's Corner , westward. As trade began to develop at St. Elea¬ nor's, ' Rest and Bedeque , the Walshes, a family of the Loyalists living on the south side of the bay, built a small packet and did some trading with Shediac on the New Brunswick side, making a round trip, at first, once a week. Prior, to this a Simp son belonging to Point du Chene also ran a packet from side to side. About the same time Joseph Pope had a shipyard at what is now known as Howatt's shore, on the south side of the Bay, and sold the vessels in England . A shipyard in these days necessitated a store of some kind for supply¬ ing the men with food, for ship-carpenters were largely paid in goods. As the enter¬ prise developed over the county the rule in hiring was that the workmen be paid "half cash." But the goods for the other half were very dear and eventually an agitation began that they should be paid all their wages in cash, which was at last successful. At this time there was no wharf on the north side of the bay, although Joseph Pope had one near his shipyard, and it was at this point that Simpson's packet touched. Although living in Bedeque Mr. Pope was not a Loyalist but came here directly from England . In 1838 or thereabouts, the first part of Queen's wharf at Summerside was con¬ structed. The land where the town is built belonged to , a Loyalist , who got the grant of the land from Governor Fanning in 1795. After the wharf was begun the road from St. Eleanor's was con¬ nected therewith, but for .a number of years afterward those coming from the eastern side, had to reach the wharf by coming along the shore. At first the place was known as "Green's Shore," then "Green's Wharf" then as simply."" and since that time as Summerside . The story told as to how the latter name was associated with the town is, that one year when spring was near, but yet the cold northerly winds were blowing, a resident from the north slope of , where the icy blast was still keenly felt, came over to the south side and