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     May 22 — only a few lobster fishermen set. Conditions very poor. 
     
    

    
     May 23 — most of the men set some traps. 
     
    

    
     May 24 — a great deal of ice; North Lake Harbour filled, also two 
     
     lanes of ice in Strait, meeting in places. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May 25 — wind still northerly and ice conditions prevented boats 
     
     from getting out the harbour. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May 26 - wind shifted, clearing ice. Boats went out before noon. 
     
     Some ice coming in around boats at night. 
     
    

    
     May 27 - boats getting out and setting lines. 
     
    

    
     May 28 — Sunday no ice in sight. 
     
    
   
   
    
     May 29 - setting expected to be completed today. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Debbie Bryan 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1971 the long liner, Debbie Bryan, owned by Clive Bruce, 
     
     Elmira, sprang a leak out to sea. It soon began to fill and the 
     
     engine failed. Clive and his sons, David and Glen, were forced 
     
    
   
   
    
     to abandon her and go ashore by dory. Some time later the Debbie 
     
     Bryan drifted ashore near Basin Head. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cream and Milk Shipments 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cream separators came into use in 1920 and cream was 
     
     shipped by train to Dunstaffnage for some years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Souris Creamery was established in 1930 as a purchase 
     
     and sales depot for machinery for making butter and cheese, as 
     
     well as refrigeration and cold storage equipment. The creamery 
     
     owners were John and Percy Simmonds, Charlottetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Cream was taken to this factory by truck and the first 
     
     truck driver to haul cream was Andrew F. Campbell, Campbell’s Cove. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Other truckers included: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Waldron Dingwell 
     
     Leonard Peters 
     
     Creamery truck — 1 year 
     
    
   
   
    
     Managers of the Souris Creamery were: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Amos Hubley 
     
    

    
     Ted Ellis 
     
    

    
     Henry MacDonald 
     
     Reg Vessey 
     
     Sterling Gillespie 
     
    
   
   
    
     This creamery was destroyed by fire on January 29, l96l. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Several farmers shipped their cream to the Co-Op Factory at 
     
    
   
   
    
     Morell but it was closed in 1971 and since that time they ship to 
     
     Eldon Creamery.