Willie MacDonald

Little Sands along with the first settlers that came

'n the late 1700’s. I am told that Willie's father dropped dead when driving the cows down for water at Blue’s creek.

Willie was a hard working man. When my father was in Vancouver, Willie put in the crop at his own farm, at ours, and Donald MacNeil’s, and also fished lobsters alone in the boat.

Willie was a good farmer and grew seed potatoes for Cuba. One of the best crops of potatoes grew in the field above the road. H. MacKinnon dug them out with a dig- ger, which was quite a thing in those days. When he was finished the field was white with potatoes, all about two and a half inches. One only had to put a half bushel basket down and fill it without moving it.

This was in the real Depression days when Canada just put on the embargo for Cuban sugar to help the sugar beet growers of Ontario. Willie had so many pota- toes that he was able to fill a railway car with 200 pound bags and ship them to Montreal. What a discouraging task! Instead of a cheque for his potatoes he got a bill for about $46.00 for the bags.

Later on he had his son Hector helping him with the fishing. Hector and I often arrived home from a dance, and Hector had to change his clothes and run to the

a 5 far as I can tell, the MacDonalds were living in

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