Colin Hector MacNeill

wood at our place when I was very small. He used to

shout at me, no doubt to keep me out of harm’s way. I remember one time when I was in my early teens, I was coming home from Little Sands Endeavour. We young fellows were sitting beside the road, no doubt laughing and making a noise, when he and his wife were walking past. He must have thought that we were making fun of him and he started over to give us a talking to, no doubt about our bad manners. We all ran. I was scared to go home, as I thought he would be waiting at MacPherson’s bridge to catch me; otherwise I knew he could not catch me. He died soon after that, with what they said was a ruptured appendix.

Colin Hector was one of the best fishermen in the dis- trict, and apparently was a very hard-working man. He kept his farm very neat. He had bought the farm from Cameron MacPhee’s mother. When her husband died, she sold the farm and moved to Pinette. The barn (an ad— junct of Belfast Church), used to be located at the west end of Jimmie Dixon’s farm. When Cameron MacPhee’s barn burned, the old “church" building was moved to his farm to become his barn. It is now gone. After that, the people in that area (west) went into the Wood Islands parish. This, in itself, separated the people from eastern and western Little Sands, the east going to Little Sands

I was always scared of him. He used to thresh and cut

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