On Sunday mornings, what a sight it must have been to see the carts and buggies hauled by fine horses climb the steep hill by Alonzo Camerons , taking families to Mass at St. Mary's! The Indians walked to church and would exchange greetings with those passing by. The main road to the community from Princetown was by way of the road that joins the Indian River road behind the school. Up to 1900 this was travelled more than the newer passage over the . In 1954 the main road from Kensington to Malpeque was paved. At the same time, our road from the corner to the school was also paved. Our residents must have been on the right side of politics. In 1954 the pavement was completed from the school to Hamilton. The residents bf the district are now fortunate to have such good roads. The first car in our district was owned by William and Edgar Hickey in 1922. It was a Star. Today nearly every farmer owns a car or truck. The motor car, truck, and all weather roads have changed the face of our com¬ munity. We were able to get a picture of a double seated wagon for our origi¬ nal history project. We had never heard tell of this type of wagon until we started our community history project. It was not so long ago since people used to ride in these wagons. Great pride was taken to have the best look¬ ing wagon. We wonder if there were back seat drivers in these wagons as in our cars today. Another picture we have in our original history is that of an old car. The interesting note about this is the way that cars were loaded on the ferry at Borden. The cars were driven onto a freight car and the freight car was hauled on and off the ferry. Another picture is that of a horse and buggy. Another is that of an early car in our district and the last is that of the newest car in the district. Indian River in the early days had its share of industry. was not only the very real artery of winter traffic, but also a highway to the local source of native fertilizer and lime. On its surface each winter was erected Mud Diggers, over the old oyster and mussel beds of the Bay. The local men would erect heavy timbers in a framework to support a huge scoop-shaped fork with a medium-sized tree for a handle. A horse was hitched to a cap¬ stan and a winch worked the fork down through a hole in the ice into the dark grey-green slime and shells of beds that lay some ten to twenty feet beneath the surface. Farmers came from all the surrounding areas with strong teams of horses, bob sleds with boxes nearly water tight to hold the rich load of mud. It was landed on the nearest shore and later hauled into the field by sleighs or carts. Sometimes Digger and all the equipment would be lost in a sudden spring thaw. It was the smart digger-man who knew when to haul the "set" to shore. The crops grown on these fields today are their excellence as the high nutrious nature of the many loads of this mussel mud hauled in the earlier years. Occasionally farmers had close escapes from death as they raced spring blizzards to the shore or waited for hours huddled in groups when squalls swept into the Bay from the Gulf. Tales of horses and sleighs being 26