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speaking, were not under attack in that respect. Nor were any of their compatriots trying to modernize them.

A great deal of Tignish's early independence had been lost, largely because of ].H. Myrick. However, outside of the main economic sphere, it had retained some of its original independence and gotten back more, thanks to the Farmers’ Bank, the ”graineries”, and the Cheese Factory. Co-operation was still a way of life, though not yet highly organized or consciously opposed to capitalism. Besides this, many small businesses - which could only be called capitalist by the most rigourous definition - now existed, mainly in the village, but here and there throughout the countryside as well. Blacksmiths, tinsmiths, tailors, doctors, a dentist, and a pharmacist all helped to make Tignish a typical small town of the period.

Gilbert Buote, circa 1860