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     impossible to get another who would remain indefinitely. 
     
     This left the onus of caring for the sick and injured in 
     
     emergencies on the shoulders of the Red Cross 
     
     representative. This lady, who was not a registered nurse, 
     
     but had taken short courses in Charlottetown, travelled all 
     
     over the district to help those in need. She procured clothing 
     
     and blankets for the very poor through the Red Cross, 
     
     accompanied people to the Western Hospital ten miles away, 
     
     worked closely with the Sisters to get some health 
     
     education into the schools, and was responsible for the 
     
     beginning of a Water Safety programme, which took 
     
     the form of swimming courses for children every 
     
     summer from the early sixties on. Pre\ iously almost 
     
     no one in the area could swim, in spite of living so near 
     
     the ocean. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Opening of Tignish Cons. Reg. High School, 1958 
     
    
   
   
    
     Photo courtesy of Edith Eldershaw. (See p. 79 for names.)