Roads were generally named for the communities they passed through, or ended up in, such as the “St. Peters Road.” Some roads, however, have an interesting history, such as the ‘Turret Bell Road.” This road was built, from the Greenwich road to the North shore, to the location of the wreck of the Turret Bell, as mentioned earlier. Built to accommodate the machinery brought in to re-float the stranded vessel, the road was also used by the numerous people who traveled to the north shore to see the attraction made so famous by Souris native Morley Acorn, and his picture postcard of the Turret Bell.

More Recently the “Mill Road’ in Selkirk was so named after the Mill owned by the Larkin Family that was located on that road. Another “Mill Road,” often referred to as the Black Bridge Road, was also named after a mill, owned by Quigley, Balderston, and Webster, and located in the vicinity. Some people and families within the area have also been honored with having a road named after them, such as the “MacMillian Road,” the “Ray Lottie Road,” the “MacDonald Road,” the “Whitty Road," “Pratt‘s Road," the “Barry Road,” “Effie’s Lane,” the “Anderson Road," “Michael’s Road,” “Ryan’s Street,” and the “Hughie Joseph Road."

Sections of the Fortune Road in Five Houses and Dingwell’s Mills were the first to be paved in the area in 1939. The St. Peters Road, in 1940, was the next road to be paved. In 1958, it was referred to as Route 1 and was one of only five roads paved in Kings County. (18) Throughout the 1960—19708, many of the roads within the fire district had been paved, and have been resurfaced many times since then. Long before the roads were paved in the early 1900s, the Island witnessed the

introduction of a phenomenon initially considered to be a menace and nuisance to most Islanders: the automobile.

THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE

A Good Driver's Slogan Drive Safe to the Right

And you’ll drive without fright A safe rule by day as well as by night. (19)

The automobile made its first appearance on PEI and in Canada in 1866, in Rustico when Father Belcourt drove his “horseless carriage” to a St. Jean Baptiste Day Picnic. (20) Having bought his car in Philadelphia, FEither Belcourt was “the first Canadian motorist, the first to buy a car, and the first to import one." (21) By 1905 gasoline—powered automobiles had arrived on the Island and by 1907 there were only seven automobiles ”1 the province. (22)

For many Islanders the automobile initially did not co—exist well With the Island way of life. Frank Ledwell recalled that “One resident Who had never seen a car before said, ‘I saw a threshing machine going