passenger purposes and a rather popular craft for both town and country people. The volume of traffic, however, slowly trickled off. Gasoline boats were bearing in and gave a service more suitable to rural requirements. Roads were also improving, and finally motor cars, and other travelling services brought about the end of the steamboat on the river routes. The Harland was finally sold to parties down on the Bras D'or Lakes where she was ultimately burned."13 The Harland ran between Charlottetown and Halliday's Wharf and Brush Wharf from 1909 until 1938. She usually made this voyage twice a week, with a cargo consisting of horses, cattle, coal, grains, barrels of flour, herring, and puncheons of molasses, etc. from Charlottetown for the merchants of OnNell Cove. The Harland was the last steamer at Brush Wharf.

Following is a letter written by Capt. Thomas Craig to his wife Katie...

" THE NORTH AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CO. L'T'D. CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.l. December 2nd, 1903

Dear Katie:

As we only went as far as Halliday's wharf this evening, it being too risky to attempt the Orwell channel, I think it would be better for Joe to fon/vard all the coastwise reports as heretofore which I left in your care on Monday evening and I will do the same just as if we went to Brush wharf.

I called in to see Minnie McDonald about that parcel addressed to her mother. Alter the usual preliminaries she said it would be rather lonesome around Brush wharf after we laid up, and I replied that we would only have to get used to it; that the people of Charlottetown, and in fact on all our routes, were very hospitable. She seemed taken quite aback at my reply and I presume she has done quite a lot of think since. i think the

better plan is to keep a lot of them thinking, it will not do them any harm.

R

13 Tell Me the Tales, by Walter Shaw, page 71.

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