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 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 C.F, was lighthouse keeper a 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 , 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. 26