on June 22, 1960. Tom and Lucy had eight children. Their lovely home still remains across the road from Stewart Memorial Hospital.

A building was erected in Tyne Valley for an Orange Hall, a meeting place for members of the Loyal Orange Lodge. A news item dated June 24, 1880 stated Orange Hall nearly completed. Its location is shown on a map of Tyne Valley in the 1880 Atlas as being where the Lidstone store was later built. A resident of the area recalls hearing it told that the Orange Hall was moved to Ellerslie and used for an Orange Hall there. Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote in her Journal on November 5, 1894 that she had attended a supper at the Orange Hall in Ellerslie. When the Orange Lodge disbanded, they gave their hall for use as a community hall. The Friendly Senior Citizens Club of Ellerslie presently hold a lease on the hall. They look after its upkeep and hold meetings there.

That same map of Tyne Valley in the 1880 Atlas also shows that there was a Tannery on the corner where the Post Office is located. Listed in the Patron’s Directory for Lot 13 is Colin McKay, Tanner and Carrier and Laughlin McNevin, Harness, shoemaker and Farmer. Laughlin McNevin’s harness shop was located between the Nisbet store on the corner and the brook. Listed as Blacksmiths in the Directory were: Neil McLellan, Tyne Valley and James Y. Rodd, Northam. Later, John Archibald MacDougall had a blacksmith shop in Tyne Valley and John R. Milligan had one at the intersection of the McLean Road and Northam Road. Listed as carriage manufacturers were: Robert Ellis, James McAuslin and Edmund Ramsay all of Tyne Valley. Later, Dougald Stewart made a business of building jaunting sleighs.

Laughlin McNevin’s harness shop was later converted to a Tea Room and Ice Cream Parlor and operated by his daughter Gertie MacNevin and Bessie Sharp from the early 1930’s to the early 1950’s.

In early years before refrigeration, people kept milk cool by putting it in a cellar or in cold water. When cream had risen to the top, some of it was skimmed off and saved for making butter and some was used at the table on cereal or dessert. CREAMERS were tall, straight containers for milk, made with a narrow window in the side, near the bottom. This would show where the cream was, when the skim milk was being drained through a tap at the bottom. Later, cream separators became available

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