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Government Services office. All of these had been housed in other buildings or did not exist previously and are now gathered under one roof in a handsome modern building.

Not only have a number of the businesses and facilities mentioned above complemented the co-ops; they have expanded the number and variety of enterprises in the area, again giving it more independence. The new park too, which stands where the railroad used to end, seems to have been a welcome addition. Still, not every enterprise that has been tried has succeeded. Among those that did not survive were a florist shop, a garden centre, a used car business, and, surprisingly, a Boys and

Girls Club.

The garden centre and florist shop have been replaced to some extent by the Co—op Association. It sells potted plants before various holidays and gardening materials and plants for a few weeks at the end of May and beginning of June, when it is warm enough to garden. The used car business could have been expected to work, but the turnover was said to be insufficient, so it closed after a few years. And for some unknown reason the Boys and Girls Club did not attract enough community support, though it had an average of a hundred members every year it functioned.

The largest businesses in the Tignish area are locally owned with one exception ~ a fish plant which has been located in Anglo—Tignish for several years. The others are construction businesses which started by filling local needs and now work in many other parts of the lsland. In short, Tignish has a mixed economy, with almost all of its enterprises evincing its independence and desire to be as self—sufficient as possible, if not its co-operative spirit.