Campbell, Alberton (Mrs. William T. Rogers, Lower Freetown); Miss -= = Cairns, Lower Freetown (Ottawa); Miss Ruby Dennis, Port Hill( " Allison Profitt, Lower Freetown); Mr. Stewart Wright, Carleton (De ‘ Minister of Agriculture, Charlottetown); Mr. J.B. Lewis, Freetown; ‘ Hester Inman, Central Bedeque (Mrs. Albert Linkletter, Linkletter R‘} Miss Verna Frizzel, Stanchel (Mrs. George Dixon, Stanchel); Miss Dor Muttart, Carleton (Mrs. Lloyd Waugh, Wilmot Valley); Miss Linda C 1 Alberton (Mrs. Jack Holtzen Malveme, Long Island, N.Y.); Miss G .. Deacon, Freetown (Mrs. John Hickox, Breadalbane); Miss Dorothy Ma‘ ‘ Emerald, (Mrs. Hillard Meek, Spring Brook); Miss Margaret MacDo f Belle River; Miss Winnifred 1. Burns, Lower Freetown; Miss Olives Stavert, Lower Freetown (Mrs. Scott Clark, Kelvin Grove); Miss ' :- Campbell, Freetown (Toronto); Miss Kathleen McCarville, Freetown (1‘ '2 Roy Stewart, Brackley); Miss Joy V. MacLeod, Stanley Bridge (Mrs. ‘1 Johnston, Penticton, B.C.); Miss Eva Sabine, Cape Wolfe (Summersi = Miss Mary Johnston, Central Bedeque (Mrs. Gerald Kilbride, Halifax, " Miss Helen I. Cairns, Lower Freetown, (Mrs. Vernon Millar, Kelvin Gr. ‘ Miss Irene Morrison, South Granville (Mrs. Elwin Burke, Charlottet ' Miss Phyllis Drummond, South Freetown (Mrs. Bradford Clark, Summe 1 East); Miss Geraldine Woodside, Margate (Mrs. WendellMoase, New An “ . Mr. William Pineau, Fernwood; Miss Frances Johnston, Central Bede-1 (Sister Frances Johnston, Kinkora); Mrs. Frances Aylward, Freet, 1 Miss Ann Leard, Central Bedeque (Mrs. Willard. Leard, Borden); f3 Rosaleen Mallett, Kinkora (Brockville, Ont.) ; Mrs. Miriam Johnston, Cen 1 Bedeque (Kinkora); Mrs. Helen Champion, Malpeque. ' '

The history of Lower Freetown School would not be complete wit ‘ . mentioning the splendid work done by the women of the Lower Freet 11 Women’s Institute. Largely through their efforts Lower Freetown Sc I won several first prizes in the P. E. Island Beautification Contests. The In Freetown Women’s Institute was organized in 1923 and now in 197 still very active in school and community work.

Compiled by Mrs. J. Scott Cairns, Lower Freetown, 1971-1‘ K

THE BLACKSMI TH SHOP

One institution that has served the district almost since its '7 beginning, but which has now passed out of existence and is in grave . . 1' of being forgotten altogether is the Blacksmith shop. ’

Meacham’s Atlas 1880 shows that a man by the name of Gaius ~ had a shop on the Freetown Road, on the corner leading to Old Mill : , He carried on business there until the shop was taken over by Abijah B who operated it until his death in 1934, when his son Stewart took ov ' proprietor.

The shop on the first floor was divided into two rooms, the forge , the wood-working shop. The outside door of the forge was large enough

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