the first settlers were appropriately the last to leave.

Muriel Eileen Allen MacKenzie, daughter of Lemuel and Eileen(McCready) Allen, was born in Halifax, NS. on January 19, 1917. On Dec 6th that same year, Muriel and her father survived the Halifax explosion; her mother, however, suffered severe injuries and died of complications the following year. In 1923, Muriel and her Dad returned to his old home on Boughton Island, P.E.|. to be with his aging father.

Muriel wrote the following article on request in 1999 while residing in Chilliwack, British Columbia. Her document was hand-written in the flowing style of the MacLean Method of Writing. Jane MacQuarrie who attended the school in Boughton Island during the lobster season said that a good hand was encouraged in their school.

MEMORIES 0F BOUGHTON ISLAND By Muriel MacKenz/e

Wfirst memory of Boughton Island came after that long (6 mile) boat ride from Georgetown.

That beautiful pink sand on the beach, on that hot August afternoon, is one thing I could never forget. And from that day onward, it was a daily play routine...our home was just a short distance from that lovely, sandy shore!

Our family history is fairly routine, for those times. My great-grandfather, Joseph William Allen, was among the first settlers on the Island. He and his two brothers emigrated from Londonderry in the early 1840’s. One brother went to Pennsylvania, another to New Brunswick and Joseph went to North Lake, PEI.

He met Anne Simons of Annandale, whom he later married and they moved to Boughton Island. They had two children, Margaret Anne and Joseph Henry. Joseph senior died when

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