sured by the bushel (or weighed as such) one half cent per bushel, heavy weight of every description two cents per hundred pounds, wheel carriages eight cents each (and) horned cattle eight cents each. By the early 1900's, Cardigan had developed into an important centre for steamship passenger and freight service. The Strait Shipping Company shipped produce between the ports of Cardigan , Georgetown , and Mon¬ tague to Sydney , N.S. Around 1915, the Three Rivers Steamship Company established a pas¬ senger and freight service from Cardigan , Montague, and Georgetown to Pictou, N.S. Steamship Stanley rescues Minto. Three Rivers Steamship 'Enterprise' docks in Cardigan , 1939.