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all potatoes shipped from P.E.I. This estimate is based on the total Island shipment as being from eight to ten thousand cars annually and for the past several years upwards of eight hundred cars has been shipped from this station each year.

LOBSTER FACTORIES

The first lobster factory was build in Carleton in 1886.

In the early nineteen hundreds the first Lobster Factory was built by James Cook. He erected it on land now owned by the Town of Borden and later sold it to Frank Schaeffer. He operated it for some time and in turn sold out to Freeman Hewett who also canned chicken as well as lobster. The factory was then sold to William E. Howatt.

Alexander Howatt built another factory on land now own- ed by Herbert Stewart.

Mr. Theodore Trenholm owned a factory, now owned by the Town of Borden. Johnny Crockett owned land, now owned by William Noonan, sold it to Cornelius MacMillan.

Others who operated factories were Colin MacMillan and Brace and MacKay.

GARAGES AND FILLING STATIONS

The first garage in Carleton was operated by Stanley Link- letter who married Myrtle Murray. They built a new home and remained here for a number of years. They had one son, Gordon. The Linkletters sold their property to George Doull and moved to Summerside. This property was later purchased by Avalah MacCallum and his wife Grace Thompson MacCallum. They had two children, Lloyd and Pauline. Mr. MacCallum passed away but his widow and family still reside here.

Norman MacWilliams built his garage and filling station at Carleton corner in 1931. He married Dorilda Howatt of Cape Traverse. Mrs. MacWilliams operated a restaurant for a num- ber of years in part of the same building where Norman had his garage. In 1946 they sold out and moved to Borden. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Stordy bought this property. They had two daught- ers, Arlene and Dianne. Mr. Stordy was employed on the car- ferry. After residing here about fifteen years they sold their home to Mrs. A. A. MacCallum and moved to Victoria.

This large lot of land was first owned by Donald Morrison who had one son, Norman. They moved to Western Canada. Others who lived here were William Dunn (he married Mattie Wright, Cape Traverse and had one daughter, Bessie). John Campbell who resided here for a short time. Cornelius MacMil— lan (who married Annie Hennacy, to them were born four child— ren, Lorne, Lena, Alban and Daniel). Peter Ranahan (who had two sons Emmett and Thomas). Robert Carmichael (whose family attended Carleton School, namely, Margaret, Dorothy, Duncan, Gertrude, Anna, Benjamin, Mary and Robert).

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