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     promotion wzs probably the first attempt to make a uniform 
     
     value—added product on the Island. The factory in Tignish 
     
     was actually )ne of the later ones to be opened. Although 
     
     cheese factores were chartered as joint-stock companies, 
     
     rather than t'ue co—operatives, for which there was then 
     
     no legislatior on the Island, in practise they functioned 
     
     much like the latter. Farmers bought shares and divided 
     
     the profits aniongst themselves at the end of the summer 
     
     season. Eve‘y week they were paid for the milk they 
     
     had brought 11, which for the first time, pr0\ ided them 
     
     with a stead income The farmers brought the cans of 
     
     milk to the factory, but a trained cheese- maker with his 
     
     assistants slid the actual work The Cheese Factory at 
     
     Tignish was a successful operation and lasted as long as, 
     
     or longer tlan, many others of its kind. Like the 
     
     “graineries”, cheese factories became obsolete, in their 
     
     case because it was now more practical to transport the 
     
     milk by tI‘L‘Cl to bigger factories. 
     
    
   
   
    
     From ‘hese three organizations, we can see that 
     
     the idea of cooperative institutions was easily accepted 
     
     by farmers in the Tignish area, even though it co-existed 
     
     with rampant capitalism. In the first twenty-five years of 
     
     the next ce:1t.1ry, more co—operative farm organizations 
     
     would appear and usually do well. But it would take 
     
     nearly that lcng for the principles of co-operation to be 
     
     applied to ‘ht fishing industry. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The largest of all co—operative projects in 
     
     nineteenth- ceatury Tignish m as the building of the third 
     
     church. T his r :markable unde1 taking was suggested and 
     
     spearheaded 3v Peter Mclntvre, the first resident priest. 
     
     He arrived 11:843, just in time to mitigatet the after- effects 
     
     of the revot. As well as being able to speak and write 
     
     French - he 1ad studied at the Grand Seminaire in Quebec 
     
     City - he was friendly to the Acadians. Tignish’s first 
     
     resident piiest, he took an interest in every aspect of 
     
     communit} life, especially education. Tignish still feels 
     
     the effects (f the seventeen years he spent there.