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     ringleaders gave themselves up and were put in jail. 
     
     Their punishment was neither as long nor as harsh as 
     
     it might have been, thanks to Peter McIntyre, the young 
     
     parish priest, who interceded on their behalf. No 
     
     further incidents have been remembered — perhaps 
     
     there were none. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     The next we hear of the land question in Tignish, 
     
     is in 1868. Men were engaged in buying the land they had 
     
     lived on and farmed for so many years from the provincial 
     
     government, which had now bought it from the landlords. 
     
     While this process was not complete until well into the 18705, 
     
     the matter of land ownership was finally settled. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Owning their own land was a major step towards 
     
     independence for all settlers, especially in a period when 
     
     many of them were losing other forms of independence 
     
     to the fishing businesses. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tignish residents had seen representatives of 
     
     government coming up the road to back up the rent 
     
     collectors and restore order. Subsequently the colonial 
     
     government continued to pay little attention to the 
     
     Tignish area, except for building and repairing roads. The 
     
     village which was developing and the hamlets scattered 
     
     around it remained semi-independent in that respect. 
     
     However with the coming of responsible government in