My Uncle Sam married a French lady from Quebec . She was a warm and likeable person and when they moved to Charlottetown, she and my mother became very good friends. She knew no Arabic and very little English. When the two of them got on the phone it was a real circus listening to my mother speak. She would start in French, which she was getting a little rusty in, then jump into English when she could not think of the French word, then over to Arabic when all else failed only to remember that my aunt could not speak Arabic, then back to French. When my uncle Sam came to the Island, he bought a small store on the corner of Pownal and . It was owned by Peter Trainor who was robbed and murdered by two men named Lund and Philips in the early 1940's. They were convicted and hung and it was the last execution on the Island. Arabic was the language spoken at home. Because of that, I am able to understand most of what is said in a conversation and to a lesser degree respond. Unfortunately I lost most of my French. It was different for Yvonne, Joe and Abe . They were in the Quebec school system and because they were older, they managed to retain more than I did. The boys went to Queen Square School which was located on the corner Great and which is a parking lot now. The girls went to Notre Dame Convent which is only two blocks away from our store and home. Fortunately there were many Sisters there who spoke French which was a great help to Yvonne. Because Yvonne married young and moved to Montreal, she became fluent in the three languages. Notre Dame convent played an important role in the education life of the Island. It was a girls school operated by the Sisters of Notre Dame offering classes from grade 1 to 10. Girls wishing to take grade 11 or 12 or teacher training, could live at the convent and walk to Prince of Wales College. As young healthy teenage boys, we were always interested in making an impression on the young ladies. After supper we would find an excuse to go to the square which is next to the convent to play ball or just "hang around". The girls were allowed to walk around the Square or they could extend their walk to the next block which included our store, up Weymouth to Grafton to Hillsboro down to Sydney where the Convent was located. I remember my sisters wearing a standard uniform which everyone had to wear except those going to Prince of Wales . There was a lot of positive advantages to this policy. 26