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(‘ourtesv Pictures of the Past by leards Thomas K. Kickham (known as Tee Kay) and family

LR: Lottie McWade (Mrs. Alex Campbell), Thomas K. Kickham, Isabel McWade (Mrs. Charles MacKinnon), standing, William Wade Hughes (child in front), Mrs. T.K. Kickham (formerly Mrs. McWade), James J. Hughes, Mrs. James J. Hughes (formerly Annie McWade), Lottie Hughes (in her mother‘s arms).

builder, and (in 1867) a Member of the Legislature for First District of Kings.

Tee Kay Kickham worked in his father’s store, was active in coastal trade, operated two canneries and was postmaster at Souris West for sixteen years. He married a widow with five children, Charlotte McWade, daughter of Richard Burk, a shipbuilder. They lived in the J.J. Hughes house which was on the site of the present Paul Gallant home. Tee Kay will be remem- bered most for the twelve, two or three mast schooners built in his shipyard between 1891 and 1907. William Chaisson was master builder in the Tee Kay Kickham shipyard.

The ships built in this shipyard all had names ending in the word “light”. The Minot’s Light was named for the lighthouse outside Boston Harbour. The Arclight, a three masted schooner of 103 tons sank off New York Harbourin 1912. The Searchlight was lost in the Bay of Fundy in World War Two. The first Delight, a schooner of109 tons built in 1894, was wrecked on a trip from Newfoundland to the Barbados. The Ariel Light of 79 tons was built in 1887. In 1905 the Silverlight was sawed out ofthe ice in May to make an emergency trip to Pictou for a load of hay. 1905 was known as the year of Government hay because of the hay famine. Other schooners with little or no recorded history: Twilight, Sunlight, Souris Light, Satelite, and second Delight. The last of these to be built was the Limelight built in 1907, 126 tons.