For this was in Mother and Grandmother’s day Born Boughton Islanders gone by the way

A funeral like Grandmother’s you don’t see today For it was a fishing boat that took her away

Sixteen fishing boats all in a line

For | now speak from memory though small at the time From the island to Annandale that was the route

The black horse and hearse wagon replaced by the boat

But I’m wondering if people are as happy today

As they were in those days of old

if you could ask this to people one hundred years back The answer would surely be no

We oft time have said they had nothing to do We said they had nowhere to go

But one of the old people’s favorite sayings “You only shall reap what you sow”

Some outdoor sports that we’re doing today They did them but in different ways

They climbed a hill to the top to coast down While we sit on a motoring sleigh

They made their own songs, the most of them long In each one a story was told

To this present day we still sing their songs

Their stories, they never grow old

LEAVING THE ISLAND

During wartime it became hard to get teachers to come to the Island. This was one of the reasons families began to leave Boughton

Island as they still had children who were of school age. Another factor was the opening of Launching Harbour in the mid-40’s, which the

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