Stewart MacDonald, M.D.

recall, but it taught me to watch for powdery snow.

Archie MacNeill died suddenly with the flu and left small children, but the mother kept the family together and Neil had to start farm work at a very young age.

I went to school with all the family and later taught them in school. The older girl passed her entrance exam along with my sister Nella, and they both went to Prince of Wales College the year that I squeaked through 3rd year at Prince of Wales.

Archie had a sister Catherine, who worked in Boston and sang in the Tremont Temple choir. Archie Duncan had another sister, who married in Hopefield and was the mother of Wilfred Smith.

In the days before cars and school buses people did not move very far from home. Most of the boys and girls who did not move to Boston or Western Canada found husbands or wives close to home, Which meant that a great number of people in Little Sands were related.

Roderick MacKenzie’s house, later owned by his son Edwin, who farmed the property

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