one season with it and then sold it to me. The price was $150.00 with 
     
     no engine. I still have the receipt. 
     
    

    
     There wasn’t much money in those days and there didn’t seem to 
     
     be the need for it as there is today. I can remember some government 
     
     money, though. My father was paid $10.00 a month for carrying the 
     
     mail from Launching to Boughton island. He did this twice a week, 
     
     every Tuesday and Thursday. He would pick it up from the post office 
     
     at Sylvarius Yorston’s, about a mile walk from the shore, and carry it to 
     
     Dan John MacCormack’s house which was the post office on Boughton 
     
     Island. I can remember being very small when my sister Martha and l 
     
     rowed across the Bay in a dory, or crossed the ice in a horse and sleigh, 
     
     to pick up the mail for my father. While she lived, my Grandmother got 
     
     an old age pension of $7.50 a month. Some years, a brush fence would 
     
     be built on the beach to save the sand from washing away. 
     
    

    
     This was done by piling trees on the sand and driving stakes 
     
     crossways to hold them. I believe everyone got a chance at selling 
     
     trees, and for this we were paid 25 cents a wagon load. When the large 
     
     fish building I spoke of earlier was built, the men were paid 50 cents a 
     
     yard for hauling stone. Some of the stone was hauled by horse and cart, 
     
     and some was hauled by boat. I guess the biggest money in those days 
     
     was from fishing. 
     
    
   
   
    
     WAR TIME 
     
    
   
   
    
     The war of 1939 sure made for some changes on our small island as 
     
     every man went to sign up as they came of age, or in some cases, 
     
     while they were under age. The first to join was my brother Lloyd 
     
    

    
     who had been going to training camp before the war. He was sent to 
     
     train in Newfoundland which they called ‘overseas” because at that 
     
     time, Newfoundland was not yet a part of Canada. He went to the PEI 
     
     Highlanders. The other Boughton Islanders who went to war were: 
     
    
   
   
    
     * Lloyd King, (brother) Army, PEl Highlanders 
     
    

    
     John Clarey, Navy 
     
    

    
     Pete Clarey, Army 
     
    

    
     Frank MacCormack, Army 
     
    

    
     Dan MacCormack, Air Force 
     
    

    
     Wendell MacKenzie, Air Force 
     
    

    
     Jack King (brother, who was underage) Army, North Novies 
     
     Joseph Gotell, Air Force 
     
    
   
   
    
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