president of the PEI Medical Society in 1953, relays the esteem and warmth felt by his colleagues, of Dr. Roddie’s devotion to his career and his patients of the St. Peters Bay area:

...You have always been an honor to our profession and to this great Island. Your long and successful career is worthy of emulation and a glorious inspiration to your younger colleagues. Truly it can be said of you that you have always upheld the high ideals of our profession. Your ethics have been unimpeachable and your relationship to your patients, to your colleagues, and to the public has never varied in its warmth and sincerity.

Dr. Roddie was an avid gardener, he loved to play cards, and he never took vacations. He was devoted doctor, family man, and member of the community. There is scarcely a family within the community, which did not have Dr. Roddie touch their lives in some way. Forty years after his death, stories of his Wit, and selfless devotion are still retold, and one might say, will not soon be forgotten.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT

Fire Chiefs: Henry McDougall B.J. O’Hanley Earl Dwan Melvin Lewis Donnie Sanderson Pat Larkin Brian Allen Emmett O'Hanley David Rossiter

The St. Peters Volunteer Fire Department was officially established in 1953. There have been nine men serve as Fire Chief, and the department has been located in four different buildings situated in three different locations. The one thing that has remained constant is the fact that for almost fifty-years the men involved with the department have worked as volunteers, their services invaluable for the communities under their care.

The first fire chief for the village was Henry McDougall. Henry recalled that when he first moved to the village, there was no fire department. The first department building was actually made from a porch taken off the old Co-op store. Henry recalled, “We hauled it down to the corner* and that became the first fire department building. There was no lock on it or anything.” [16) There was a pumper with a hose in

' The “corner” refers to the corner where the “Old MacDonald’s Store" is presently situated.

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