Johnnie Hector MacLean

e next neighbour was Johnnie Hector. I can still

I see his father and mother coming to Little Sands

church in a wagon, but I never spoke to them and know nothing of their history.

Johnnie Hector was one of the better educated men of his time. He worked as a bookkeeper in a store in Murray Harbour. He married Phemie Blue from Hopefield. None of their four boys obtained his skills.

Johnnie Hector was an excellent fisherman and fished at Wood Islands. In the midst of the Depression I bought a ’29 Chev from him. It was one the RCMP had had. There were only 20,000 miles on it when I got it, and I paid $125 for it. What a job I had accumulating the cash for it! When I exchanged it for a Dodge there were over 60,000 miles on it.

One could not meet a more pleasant man than John- nie Hector.

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