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     SCHURMAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Earl Schurman (1892-1960) was the son of William Gordon and Flora 
     
     Ann (Brown) Schurman. He married Rosara Gretha (Bud) Clark (1888- 
     
     1955), daughter of Ewen and Rosara (MacGregor) Clark. Earl ran a garage 
     
     in Summerside and Bud was his bookkeeper. Earl and Bud had no family of 
     
     their own but raised their niece Audrey, daughter of Albert Ewen and Ruth 
     
     (Durant) Clark of Wilmot Valley. Audrey married Lorne Wright and the 
     
     cottage was later willed to them. The home is named “Seldom Inn.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     WRIGHT 
     
    
   
   
    
     Lorne Wright (June 19, 1916—March 26, 1976) was the son of Albert 
     
     and Clara Ann (Hill) Wright of Central Bedeque. He married, May 18, 
     
     1940, Audrey Clark (Oct. 6, 1915), daughter of Albert Ewen and Ruth 
     
     (Durant) Clark of Wilmot Valley. When first married they both worked at 
     
     M.F. Schurman Co. Ltd. in Summerside. Then they enlisted in the Armed 
     
     Forces during the war. Audrey joined the W.R.C.N.S. and Lornejoined the 
     
     R.C.O.C. (See Veterans of World War Two). Following the war they lived 
     
     in Trail, B.C. later returning to Wilmot Valley to live in the cottage left to 
     
     them by Audrey‘s aunt and uncle. They engaged in the tourist business and 
     
     rented out the other cottages along the river. Lorne ran the service station at 
     
     Read's Corner and then opened Wright’s Welding and Manufacturing 
     
     which is still at Read‘s Corner. After they left the cottage they moved to an 
     
     apartment in Wilmot and then to their home next to the welding shop. After 
     
     selling the welding shop they bought a home on Schurman's Point. In 1979 
     
     Audrey sold the house and moved to Sumtnerside. Audrey and Lorne had 
     
     one son: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Michael Wayne (Oct. 29, 1947) was born in Trail, B.C. Wayne received his 
     
     BA. (Honours), M.A. and the Dalhousie University Medal. He was a 
     
     Canada Council Scholar (1973-74) and was a British Commonwealth 
     
     Scholarship Nominee in 1975. There is an account in earlier pages of 
     
     this book on Wayne‘s literary career. 
     
    
   
   
    
     BRENNAN 
     
    
   
   
    
     The first cottage on the south of the road is the one which we assume 
     
     Mary Brennan (1831- ) lived in. She appeared on the 1881 census. 
     
     People in the community have recollections of ladies bringing their wool to 
     
     Mary for spinning and weaving. As well, Mary kept house by the day or 
     
     evening. She apparently lived here for tnany years and is buried in lot 11.