As I Remember Them my wife," and they started the well-known Wood Islands graveyard at Gray's Road. Others were buried in the Belfast graveyard. This may be due to the fact that there was a branch of the St. John's Belfast Church just west of Jimmy Dixon 's house. The former church became a barn on Colin Hector 's farm, which was then owned by Cameron MacPhee 's father. His barn had burned, a calamity in those days. The upper part of Little Sands has a very high shore line while the lower part has a very low shore line with many sand banks from which the place gets its name. The eastern part of the community went to the Lit¬ tle Sands church, while the western part went to Wood Islands . In the early days, before church union took place, both were Presbyterian (the Wood Islands church remains Presbyterian, while Little Sands is the United Church of Canada). The citizens east of the voted in the Mur¬ ray River district, but those in the west end voted in the Belfast area. I understand that today they all vote in the Murray River district down to the end of (the road at Lorin Panting 's). In the early days of Little Sands there was a French settlement. The people used to trade with the French ports in , Nova Scotia . There is little to show of their occupation, other than at certain times, with the shifting of the sands on our shore, can be seen the small sticks driven where the old wharf used to be. The French Acadians who were exiled, claimed that they had buried some of their treasure in a sand bank "between a wharf and a spring" and later settlers dug for the gold a couple of times. A company drilled for oil near the shore at Sam Dixon 's. They went down 2000 feet and then capped the well. No