Properties and People St. Peters Road being paved shortly thereafter. Art is the youngest son and only surviving member of the family of Robert and Susanna (Ross) Rhynes of Aberdeen, Scotland . The Rhynes emigrated to PEI in 1910, settling on a farm in Dunstaffnage with seven of their nine children. Art was one of two children born on the Island. He relates that his father was a "train- driver" in his homeland and had the honour of having Queen Victoria as a passenger on a trip to . Art successfully farmed on a small scale and worked for a time with his neighbour Bill Dennis and later with Bill's brother Roy, building and restoring apartment complexes in Charlottetown . In 1994, Arthur sold the majority of the property to Wilfred Dennis but still maintains his residence there. Submitted by P. Boswall & W. Wood FERGUSON TO SAUNDERS (N15) This property currently forms part of the eastern boundary of Marshfield and is located on the northwest corner of the St. Peters and Roads. James Ferguson Sr. ( Red Jim) was the first leaseholder obtaining a lease from James and Robert Montgomery of 89 acres on October 22, 1838. The property remained in the Ferguson family but was split between two of Red Jim's sons James Jr . and Alexander. Alexander Ferguson purchased the 43!^ acres adjacent to the St. Peter 's Road from Charles Palmer on May 6, 1881. Alexander and his wife Hannah subsequently sold their property to James Wyatt on March 25, 1882 for the sum of $973.49. On his death in 1907, James Wyatt 's daughter Matilda inherited the property with the deed being registered on April 21, 1908. Matilda married George L. Boswall of Frenchfort on October 20, 1909 and together they owned the property until 1919. During this time the Wyatt home was moved from the property to its present location in Frenchfort where it is currently the home of Norman Boswall , Matilda Wyatt 's grandson. (See chapter The Family of Edward Wyatt .) In 1919, Matilda and George sold the property to the Soldiers Settlement Board. The Soldiers Settlement Board was an agency created to assist veterans of the "Great War" to return to civilian occupations like farming. With the assistance of the Soldiers Settlement Board, William R. Dennis , a war veteran, settled on this property. Shortly thereafter he married Nellie (Stewart) MacKay, widow of Gordon MacKay . Gordon MacKay was also a war veteran and had fallen victim to an illness contacted during his time as a soldier. Nellie brought with her their only child, Stewart, to become part of her new family (see Descendants of Five Mile House Stewarts ). Bill Dennis was an entrepreneur of some renown. He built a beautiful new home on the property, established a sizable fox ranch, operated the Dunstaffnage Cheese Factory, adjacent to which he constructed a hog barn. Bill piped the cheese by-product "whey" directly into the barn as a source feed for the hogs. Sometime later he opened a dance hall called the "White Spot" attached to and part of the old cheese factory. In the late 1930's he opened a retail on Great known as the "Cash and Carry" (located on what is now , on the west side of the block between Fitzroy and Kent Streets ). Bill's stepson, Stewart, rapidly acquired the same entrepreneurial spirit and took over the store in the 1940's, going on to become one of the top business men in Charlottetown during the last half of the twentieth century. A strong believer in marketing and promotion, it is said that Stewart may have been the only man on PEI to sell two tons of bananas in one day. Eventually he moved from groceries to electrical appliances, furniture, then onto property holding and development in the greater Charlottetown area. In 1945, Bill Dennis sold the property in Marshfield to Albert E. Saunders , a veteran of WW II. Bill then moved to the Arnfast property, located on the north side of the St. Peters Road , west of the in what was then the of Charlottetown . At this location, he was constructing the first fully lighted harness racing track in the Charlottetown area when he suddenly -294-