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tdam President is Myrtle, she is thin and very tall, t she settles all our problems, be they great or be they small. 9th her happy smiling face, and her pleasant manner, too, tnche is next upon our roll call, but she doesn’t make much ado. ssie, yes, and Phyllis too, work willingly when there’s work to do, it kiddies home, keep both quite busy, but “Home”, remember, is half our motto. J tn is our youngest and newest member, quite willing to do what she can, r profession in life enables her to ease the sufferings of man. ith’s home is from the east, which was the Wise Men’s way, d with them, she has much in common, knowledge to lead, as they. T' .en there’s Mabel who’s a stalwart, through perhaps a wee bit dry, B :t no one can make rolls as she can, even if they try and try. N;w the last on our list is Marjorie, who really dislikes getting up, But when the tea is passed around, she’ll always have the second cup. 1

LOCATION

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.i‘ Augustine Cove is a picturesque and prosperous farming commun— ity situated on the Northumberland Strait on the south side of Prince Etlward Island. Its shoreline of about six (6) miles stretches between Cape T averse on the west and Tryon on the east. The distance inland from t=e shoreline to the northern boundry is about three (3) miles.

5 This district is named after one Major-General Augustin Prevost (3723-1786) whom, it is thought, visited here around 1760. Major Pre- V twas born at Geneva, Switzerland, August 23, 1723 of a French fam- il - long settled in Switzerland. He was educated as a soldier and fought a, inst the French at Fontenoy, where he was wounded.

3, On January 9, 1756, when in the Dutch service he was transferred a ‘a major to the newly-raised 60th Royal Americans. He served under . lfe at Quebec, where he was wounded. On recovery, in 1760, he re- J fled the 3rd battalion in Canada, and having been promoted to Lieuten- a t-Colonel took the battalion to the West Indies. It was while on this Jy‘irney that it is believed he visited this area. In 1780, he returned to E gland and died there in 1786.

There are three coves on the shoreline of this settlement, and a . Ording to Meachem’s Atlas of 1880, one was named Prevost 0r Provost 0‘; e, and another Augustine Cove. The name of the third cove was Cum- land, but, through research, it has been established that, since that Visit of Augustin Prevost, the district has been known as Augustine

Although there were settlements by the French at Cape Traverse

1’“ TryOn, we do not believe there was any settlement in Augustine Cove 1 5‘ 11 after 1760. From the book “Census by Sieur de la Roche — 1752”, SiOnal Paper No. 18, from Canadian Archives Report for 1905, Vol. II 'lA‘findix A Part I with map and preceding pages, we obtained the follow- .n Information:

”0% We left Riviere de la Traverse on the 31st of August and took the

e for Riviere des Blonds (Tryon River) following the coast all the

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