1922. I earned $8.00 
     
     per month. George 
     
     earned $12.00 but we 
     
     had at least plenty to 
     
     eat at this time and a 
     
     place to sleep ....... The 
     
     depression from 1930 
     
     to 1939 was a very 
     
     llquf/rwphll.AllcnonBuughmnlslami serious time. No work 
     
     ‘:”“""“V‘"“W“(“WK"MW or money, just as 
     
     people can read about today ....... During the year 1935, I went 
     
     to Boughton Island. My brother, Pete, was living down there. 
     
     We build a living shack at McCormack’s Cove on the West end 
     
     of the Island. My mother and step- 
     
     father had left Milltown and built a 
     
     small bungalow over there as that 
     
     was his native place of birth. My 
     
     half-sister, Elizabeth, was living 
     
     there with them ...... Peter and I 
     
     decided to cut lumber to get a 
     
     fishing boat built. We also built 
     
     a fleet of lobster traps. We took 
     
     the lumber to Angus MacLean of 
     
     Georgetown, as he was the boat 
     
     builder in this area. Pete and I 
     
     built 300 lobster traps, knit the 
     
     heads and made our buoys. We Aim/mphH.Alienamuuhn's”mmsmzie 
     
     worked all winter to be ready for the first of May. 
     
     BOAT BUILDING 
     
     The first day of April, Mr. McLean wanted help to work on the 
     
     boat, so I walked across the 
     
     ice to Burnt Point and then 
     
     walked another two miles 
     
     to Georgetown to give him 
     
     a hand. I stayed at Maggie 
     
     and Dollie Richards. Pete 
     
     ,, . and I knew them quite 
     
     AlmxlllmwithMyrIIEGmy’sm‘ys,1933 well. It was our half-way 
     
     (WMWMMMXJ KW” house when in Georgetown. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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