POST MASTERS. POST OFFICES, MAIL DELIVERY Central Lot 16

First Postmaster was James Lyle, 1838-1859. D. Campbell 1859—1865.

Yeo 1866-1867. Donald Campbell 1867-1880. Miss Eliza Campbell 188(. 1903. Charles Barrett 1903-1909. PrushiaLyle 1909 until closing in 1913. The Lot 16 District Post Offices before the rural route was established were as follows: Central, Belmont, Rose Hill, Southwest, Quagmire, Urbainville, Wellington and Wellington Station. Some of the drivers of the mail to those local Post Offices were Sandy Lockhart, Nelson Howatt and Joe Laughlin. The first rural route driver was R.B. MacNeill, starting on May _1st., 1913. The distance he travelled was 23 miles, and he made six trips each week. Leonard MacNeill, son of RB. MacNeill, had the route for many years. After his death his wife did the route for several years, and their daughter, Lorraine Landry, is the present driver.

LOBSTER FACTORIES

The first lobster factory we know of in our District was located at the end of the Ferry Road, on the west side. It was owned by a Belonie Gaudet' from Miscouche. Later it was sold to Thomas Linkletter, of Linkletter Road, (father of T. Leland Linkletter who in 1951 built a summer home at Black Point). The factory operated until 1936 when it burned to the ground. A new one was built by the Richmond Bay Fishermens Co-op about 1943, and ran until the late 1940’s, when larger factories came into use. As well as lobsters, clams and oysters were canned, and many people from the surrounding area were employed. Their was a cook house and bunk house, and in the canning season the wharf area was a lively place._ Transportation was hard to come by, so the employees stayed through the week, and the evenings were spent in music, singing and cards. But gradually it became harder to operate a small factory at a profit, and our factory succumbed to economic problems, small lobster catches as the number of lobsters in the Grand River decreased, and difficulty in keeping labor through the slack periods. Most of our lobsters are now processed in a large modern factory in Egmont Bay.

SCHOOLS The present school house (now unused) was built in 1917 by the late Ralph Compton of St. Eleanors, and opened its doors on January 11, 1918.

Mr. Herbert Shaw, Deputy Minister of Education, gave an address.

The first Principal was Georgie MacLean; Junior teacher was Alvira MacLean. '

Trustees were Matthew Gamble, Percy Miller and Robert Hutchinson. G.H. Large was secretary-treasurer. It is a two room school, though there were years when only one room was used. This school closed in 1970, with

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