journey, he couldn’t bring himself to open it. He went home, called the family to the living room, opened and read the telegram. To their great joy they discovered that John was wounded, not killed in action.

onnie Mair spent a lot

of time on Boughton Island as a girl. She got the love for Boughton lsland naturally. Her grandmother, Margaret Allen, was born there and she was .. wise in all those close—to-nature Miranda, Granddaughter OfCOIIIIiL‘ lugs things, plants, hand-work and other aspects of rural culture.

She visited often in company with Beulah and Martha King who moved to Georgetown at the time of the general exodus from the island during WW2. It was a great and memorable experience to make the journey from Georgetown around to Cardigan and down to Launching; then the passage to Boughton Island. One of the Clareys, Jack or Pete, would row them over in a dory. The part she detested was having to be picked up by one of the boys who waded through the water to the waiting dory. However, all the trials of the trip were as nothing with the fun of spending a week or two loose on the Island.

In Jack Clarey’s account of Boughton Island life, he mentioned that they thought nothing of rowing back and forth the six miles to Georgetown. Connie Mair says that Jack and Pete had a routine of calling at the George Mair home in Burnt Point on the mainland to change clothing for a dance in Georgetown. After the dance they would stop at the Mair’s to change back into their seagoing wardrobe. Connie’s father had a great regard for their safety and would hang a lantern in the attic of the house to guide the boys on their return to the island. Connie is not sure how this would help them going to the island but it could be that her father was intent on guiding them back to Mair’s in case of problems. Years later when she and her husband, Bud lngs, wanted to build a house they had precious little money.

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