tions to the Costain house, the boy asked the Captain how much money he should request. Captain Paul answered, “Two thousand dollars”.

Upon arriving at the home of Captain Paul Costain in Miminegash which was located on the Palmer Road near Job Costain’s property, Brenton Hudson stated his

mission with prompt results. Large sums of money were kept in a desk drawer in the kitchen. Mrs. Margaret Gouldrup counted the requested $2,000.00 and handed the

bundle of money to the waiting messenger, leaving several more bundles of money remaining in the unprotected desk. The Costain house where this event took place

was in later years moved to St. Louis.

Mrs. John (Margaret A. Costain) Gouldrup, who lived with her bachelor brother, Captain Paul, as his housekeeper, was married to John Gouldrup who worked for twenty years in the Canadian National Railways Shop in Moncton, New Brunswick as a machinist. He is buried in Moncton, New Brunswick. His wife, who was widely known as “Aunt Maggie”, died on February 7, 1935 at the age of eighty- four years and is buried in the Miminegash United Church Cemetery.

Other men with their schooners to call at Gordon’s Wharf included Captain Dan Millar, Captain George MacBeth, Captain George Ellis, and Captain Wedge, the latter from Miminegash.

Captain George Ellis of Cascumpec later purchased the schooner, “Hibbert C” from Captain Paul Costain and continued to sail the boat among the Maritime ports with Captain Wedge of Miminegash in command. The “Hibbert C” changed ownership again when Captain Doucette bought it. Captain Doucette was on a voyage in the “Hibbert C” carrying a cargo of lumber from Buctouche, New Brunswick to Summerside, Prince Edward Island when a storm with gale winds

struck the schooner driving it ashore in Miminegash Harbor.

After selling the “Hibbert C”, Captain Paul Costain was soon busy with plans to build another schooner, the “Florence C” (C for Costain), a vessel of seventy tons which would be a little larger by ten tons than the “Hibbert C”. The “Florence C” was destined to be much to Captain Paul’s credit not only for its beautiful, graceful appearance, but also for its ease in handling and swiftness before the wind. Captain Paul continued the “Florence C” in the coastal trade adding further success to his already profitable marine ventures. Upon Captain Paul’s death in 1929, accor- ding to the terms of Captain Paul’s will, his nephew, Raymond Costain, assumed control of the “Florence C”. At this time, Raymond Costain with living with his aunt, Margaret A. (Costain) Gouldrup in Miminegash on the Palmer Road. The new owner soon ran into financial difficulties, and the bank sold the “Florence C” to a man in Montague, Prince Edward Island to satisfy the collection of the loan. It was later sold to interests in Nova Scotia and was shipwrecked in the Bay of Fundy

during a violent storm. The third schooner built by Captain Paul Costain in Miminegash was a much smaller vessel of twenty—five tons, called the “Wild Briar”. Coming from the

Miramichi one night bound for Tignish Harbor and under the command of Captain Richard Mokler of Miminegash, the Captain and the crew mistakenly setting their

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