FOREWORD

The incentive to write this pamphlet originated from a request by the Lower Freetown Women’s Institute to write a history of the Lower Freetown School District as a Centennial Project, to commemorate the entry of Prince Edward Island into the Dominion of Canada in 1873. A little research on the subject soon had me convinced that I had undertaken quite a large project, and I soon realized that it would be impossible to do justice to everybody who had a part in bringing the District up to the present.

This history is far from complete, but if it is instrumental in creating in you an interest in our past, you, yourselves may be able to add to it many happenings not brought to my attention. My desire has been simply to preserve the precious memories of our heritage, or in the words of the wit “To find out where we came from, even if we don’t know where we are going”.

I would like to thank all those who supplied me with material relevant to this history: Mrs. Reginald Haslam, Miss Alice 1. Cairns, Mrs. Scott Cairns, to mention only a few; to the personnel of the Land Registry Offices in Charlottetown and Summerside, for their friendliness and assistance, and to all others who, by way of typing, transportation, etc., helped make this work possible.

R. Louis Cairns, Freetown, P.E.l. June 1971