The method of getting water to the animals has become easier. In our original history we have some snaps of a pump and animals at a trough. On some farms in our district watering-bowls are used. Life in the house has changed just as farming methods. After the farmer has cut down the trees, he built a log cabin for his family. It was a long way from our modern houses of today. Nevertheless it was home - a place of shelter and love. Today all our homes have electricity. The electric lines were run through our district in 1954 by the Maritime Electric Light Plant. Telephones which shorten distance were installed in our district in 1929. Last fall, a new dial telephone system was started in Kensington , so today we have the modern dial phones. We often wonder how our early forefathers got along without all the modern conveniences we have in our homes. Electricity has certainly light¬ ened the burden on the farm. Our homes are lighted and heated by electri¬ city. The early settlers had to make material for clothes. Everyone in the house had a share in the work. The sheep had to be sheared, the wool washed, dried, and carded. Now it was ready to be spun and twisted for knit¬ ting and weaving. One resident told about the operation of a small spinning wheel. The spinner would sit holding the rolls of carded wool on her lap. The wheel was kept in motion by means of a "treadle" operated by the foot. When the spindle was full of yarn, it was wound upon a reel. Joins were tied together on the reel to make a skein. The skein of yarn was then dyed. The changes brought about by many years of steady progress make it almost impossible for us to realize the community without roads. From earliest times people travelled by canoe in summer and upon snowshoes in winter. Trails or paths were made through forests but these were not as easily to follow as waterways. Eventually rough tracks were laid out and thus became the first road of the community. As years passed they became better. The clay roads were narrow and curving, slippery in rain, dusty in dry weather, and muddy and rutted in the Spring. In the winter it was necessary to cut the fences and travel through the fields. Each farmer was responsible for breaking a certain section. Also each farmer spent a day or so working on the roads. If parts of the road became impossible, it was put up and sold to the lowest bidder. It was then up to this bidder to repair the road. In our community the Bay was the main highway from earliest times. Farmers would travel across the ice of the Bay of Summerside in winter. Residents told us about the long strings of horse and sleighs that would cross in a day. Today none crosses the Bay with sleighs. For local traffic on the river and Bay nearly every farmer had a small dock at the river where he could load any produce he had to sell. As in other communities our forefathers used dog-carts, buggies, and wagons. Great pride was taken in the horses and buggies, just as cars today. When sons and daughters of Indian River employed in the Bos¬ ton area came home for a visit, they were met at Summerside wharf by the family with a team of horses to bring the trunk and baggage home. 24