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     As in the first scenario, this one ends with a community 
     
     which has lost much of what makes one alive and lingers 
     
     on mainly as a tourist destination. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Many of these scenarios did indeed occur in other 
     
     small communities throughout the world and some of 
     
     these things actually happened in Tignish, but it survived. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The company that ].H. Myrick had Dunded did 
     
     go into a decline in the hands of his success)rs. No new 
     
     industry of any size appeared until long after the end of 
     
     this period. The area lost many of its professionals, with 
     
     the exception of teachers, but not all at once. It was, for 
     
     instance, 1950 before finding a new resiient doctor 
     
     became a problem. Not until the 19705 did Tignish lose 
     
     any schools. Although many men and womm left for the 
     
     United States or Western and Central Canada, quite a few 
     
     eventually returned, and the local populatim continued 
     
     to grow. A number of key people from the generations 
     
     that were in their prime in the late ninetecnth century 
     
     left the area or died. Those who succeedec them came 
     
     largely from among the fishermen and fromthe few men 
     
     who had graduated from university and tten returned 
     
     home to put their education at the seriice of their 
     
     birthplace. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The death of ].H. Myrick in 1911 wzs even more 
     
     significant than it must have seemed at tle time. For 
     
     over fifty years, he had built up a multi—facet’d enterprise 
     
     for the benefit of himself and his family. Thtson and two 
     
     grandsons who took over its running did iot have the 
     
     founder’s abilities. As might be expected his way of 
     
     doing business, and, indeed, a monopolisti? business of 
     
     that kind, was fast becoming obsolete ly then. The 
     
     younger Myricks made changes, but they Wire either not 
     
     enough or not of the right kind.