during the same year at Green’s Bridge in Miminegash, building a brigantine of about two hundred tons to class five years for the Hon. John Yeo, Esq.

As with many of the old sailing ships, the demise of the “Angeline” is not a pleasant one to contemplate. It was sold to Patrick Callahan of Waterford, who sailed it for a few years, but running into financial difficulties due mostly to the cheaper mode of transportation on the wide gauge railroad, had the proud old schooner hauled up on shore in Miminegash where it eventually went to pieces.

When Raymond McInnis sailed the “Angeline”, Wilbert McInnis and Guy McInnis would operate the “Hibbert C” (C for Costain) working for the well- known ship designer and builder of Miminegash, Captain Paul Costain. Captain Paul, who is recalled by some recently as “a nice old gentleman”, is also remember- ed as a tall, strong man who, with very little education, could plan the design of schooners of various sizes and supervise their building with the cleverness of a craft- sman, and their operation in intercoastal trade with considerable profit to himself.

The “Hibbert C” was one of the three schooners built by Captain Paul Costain in his shipyard in Miminegash off the Shore Road in back of the Danny Costain pro- perty now occupied by Melvin Ellsworth. Captain Paul Costain’s shipyard consisted of carpenter and blacksmith shops and a steam box used for bending the heavy planking for the hull of the schooners. The wood used for the two-masted schooners or brigantines, two typical vessels built in Prince Edward Island at that time, was juniper which could be supplied in great quantities from the surrounding forests. While the work proceeded in building the “Hibbert C”, the noise from the steady splitting and hammering of the shipbuilder’s adze and broadaxe could be heard by those travelling along the Shore Road between Miminegash Harbor and Little Miminegash (Roseville).

The launching of the “Hibbert C” attracted a large crowd to watch Miss Thursa Costain, niece of Captain Paul Costain, christen the schooner. On the day of the launching, the teacher in the St. Lawrence School in Miminegash dismissed the pupils, and they all walked down the Farley Road and the Shore Road to witness the launching, an event which was recently recalled by Mildred (McInnis) Thomson, a sister of Guy, Raymond, and Wilbert McInnis.

Captain Paul Costain made regular dockings at Gordon’s Wharf in Cascumpec Bay, where his sixty-ton schooner, the “Hibbert C” would be tied up awaiting a load of farm produce consisting of potatoes, oats, and hay destined for the Maritime ports in the Miramichi such as Newcastle and Chatham, or the smaller ports of Burnt Church, Neguac, and Tabusintac. A cargo on the return voyage would usually be a load of lumber which was later hauled to Gordon’s Lumber Yard, near the wharf.

During one of his frequent calls at Gordon’s Wharf, Captain Paul was visiting at the home of James and Margaret Hudson. Having an urgent need of money, Captain Paul asked if their son, Brenton Hudson, would be willing to travel to Miminegash to Captain Paul’s home to ask the Captain’s sister, Mrs. John (Margaret A. Costain) Gouldrup, for a sum of money. After inquiring about direc-

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