to carry his sawmill to Boughton Island. Lanteigne came to the Island with a two masted schooner and this was the boat Lanteigne used for the job.

Hay was very abundant on Boughton Island and Lem Allen, Wendell’s father-in-law, needed a barn to store the hay cut from his land on Boughton. The mill was to process the lumber for the barn.

Prior to this, Lem had only open barracks to keep his hay from the elements and they weren’t very satisfactory. The mill was offloaded at the base of the bar in Launching Bay and moved by the roads on the Island to the West end where the Heron Colony is.

The trees were cut and ready for sawing but closer inspection showed that about four feet of rot was found on the trunk end of the logs and more trees had to be cut to get the required amount of lumber for Lem’s barn.

Malcolm needed hay back in Mitchell River so he bought a stack and carried it to Mitchell River across Cardigan Bay, directly over the ice to a landing at Mitchell River.

The snow that year was deep and lasting. Great piles of snow were left in April from the storms of the winter. In Mitchell River, Malcolm’s cow barn had a drift so huge, they funneled under it to take the cows out to water. They made the inside of the tunnel high enough to get the sleigh loads of hay to the cow barns. Two of the loads cleared the roof of the tunnel, the third one got stuck. This was the first week of April. Malcolm MacKenzie related this story when he was close to ninety years of age and living in Montague.

@ne of Boughton Island’s teachers was John MacDonald from St. Georges. In the year 1901, he was a student at St. Dunstan’s. He was engaged to Elizabeth, daughter of John MacCormack of Cardigan, who had gone to New York to earn her living as a hair—dresser. That summer he got word that Elizabeth had died tragically in New York from what press reports termed a death by malnourishment. Another tragic loss was to follow.

John was teaching on Boughton Island in 1902. His younger sister, Bella, was seriously ill at home and in early December, she died. There had been a series of storms and there was lolly in the Bay so thick that it was impossible to get to the Island from Launching. Three

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