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Tailor

The tailoring business flourished in Cardigan at one time. Some of the tailors were: James Smith, Hugh MacDonald, Jeremiah Doucette, Michael McAulay, Dan Sigsworth, and Thomas Donahey. Mrs. Dave Lewis oper- ated a millinery shop for the community’s women.

Butcher

Eddie Redmond owned a meat shop across from the present-day Wim’s store. Malcolm Burke, Austin MacGillivary and Gerald Macdonald had meat wagons. Two others involved in this trade were Neil Shaw and Mr. Hobbs, who operated a butcher’s shop in the basement of Dan Acorn’s

house.

Shoemaker

Cardigan had several shoemakers over the years. In the 1841 census, John Griffin and Donald McDonald are listed as shoemakers. William Walsh is listed in Hutchinson’s P.E.I. Directory of 1880-1881 as a shoe- maker. William Curran and John MacLeod were boot and shoemakers in 1914 - 1915. J. Martin repaired shoes in 1935.

Liquor Sales

In the late nineteenth century many ships came into Cardigan with an extra cargo aboard. The sale of liquor was prohibited but fortunes were made by Islanders who participated in this illegal trade.

The train was also used to distribute this valuable contraband and there were always establishments in Cardigan where one could obtain liquor.

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