for a number of years. He became a politician and gained a seat in the legislative assembly of the Province. In 1952 he was elected one of the first commissioners of the village of Tignish when it incorporated. Mr. Morrissey kept a life long diary that was published by his daughter, Nursing Sister Annette Morrissey Judge.

Percey Morrissey, a brother of CF, was lighthouse keeper a North Cape from 1940 to 1956. A great historian, he re- called many stories of the early life of the area. In 1960 a spot sixty feet off the shore at North Cape, showed an iron pipe sticking up between two

large rocks in about five feet of water. This Percey remarked, was where he

was born. A piece of history gone forever. This was only a portion of the many acres of land and build-

ings that were washed over the cliffs by angry sea storms. Also disappeared was an early lobster cannery at the Black Marsh, sleeping shanties, a cookhouse and buildings occupied by fishermen and their families, who spent the fishing seasons there.

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