Unit Two has approximately sixteen hundred pupils and three 111 b; dred and thirty-five teachers. The Unit Two main board office impg Summerside, as is also the rural schools office. The rural schools t made up of one, two and three room schools; and in 1972-73 consistedlbllj thirty-five schools and fifty-three classrooms and the same number‘h‘i teachers plus specialists in guidance, reading, singing, etc. Also a 1:1“ 3 cipal, Mr. Winston Currie; vice-principal, Mr. Henry Clark; physical =3< .

cation, Mr. Hodge and office people and maintenance men. 01 By 1973-74 the rural schools had been reduced to twenty—six 21:3 thirty-six classrooms. b0

Also in the 1973—74 year the grade nine students from Augustide Cove had the option of attending either Kinkora or Athena High Schofio in Summerside, instead of Englewood High School; but grades ten, eleVlS and twelve were allowed to continue at Englewood where they had beg their higher education. w]

In the school year 1973-74, Augustine Cove is the only rural schono with a grade eight class. The total enrollment is thirty—two from gri ’50 one to eight, and the school building and grounds are among the beall of the remaining traditional rural schools on P.E.I., which today numb ' fifty-nine.

OCCUPATIONS by Augustine Cove is today strictly an agricultural community us earlier days, however, there were a few other means of livelihood 511K, short account of some of the former occupations follow. M LOBSTER FACTORIES 1“

During the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early p2

of the twentieth century, lobster factories were in operation in this d trict. One was situated at Richard Point, below the home of Earle Math Donald. It was operated by brothers Richard and Wheelock Can el'Lpo‘ during the years 1881— 1887 inclusive. Two other factories are known 01 have been in operation along the shoreline of this district; one was 113 W5 ated by John Dobson and one by George MacWilliams (Sn). These M8 were in the area where the MacWilliams’ families now live. These fem. tories at the peak of the fishing season would each employ ten to fiL‘WPO people. In:

WE MILLS of.

A grist and saw mill was operated by Benjamin Webster, befl and after the turn of the twentieth century. It was on the site of Wh m' the dam is now located, be low the home of Ernest Darby. Ch Bil BLACKSMITH SHOPS

Before the age of mechanized machinery, when horses were 115 for transporting and farming, the blacksmith shop was a very neceSSfl 13 part of the community. The blacksmith was in great demand to shoe {W11 horses as well as repair parts of machinery when broken. The S

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