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Chapter Notes: The Post Office

Benjamin Bremner, An Island Scrapbook (Charlottetown: Irwin Printing Co., Ltd.,1932), 50.

Douglas Murray, The Post Office on Prince Edward Island: 1787- 1990 (Bridgetown, Nova Scotia: Mailman Publishing, 1990), 9.

Frank W. Campbell, Canada Post Offices: 1755-1895 (Boston: Quarterman Publications Inc, 1972), Introduction.

From the papers of Colin and Jean MacDonald. Courtesy of Mary Genetta Gallant.

Alison Ann Heckbert, “Carrying The Mails, 1763—1861, The Island Magazine no. 27 (Spring/Summer, 1990), 27.

Leslie G. T omilinson and Nugent M. Clougher, Prince Edward Island: Special Series no. 7 (Postal History Society, 1959), 6.

Alison Ann Heckbert, 29.

Lorne Johnston, “Great T inkerer-Inventor Performed Terrific Feat,” The Guardian, 19th November 1983.

Douglas Murray, 12. “New Post Office,” The Examiner, 5th September 1881. “Mails,” The Examiner, 26th September 1883.

“Rural Mail Delivery starts on Monday" The Patriot, 13‘h November 1908.

Ibid. Interview with Father Wendell Maclntyre, 20th August 1999.

This information was taken from records kept by Hughie Joseph MacDonald. Courtesy of Edith MacKinnon.

Interview with Glendon and Viola MacKinnon, St. Peters Bay. 9111 August 1999.

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