'Pabook, meaning a andy shes-9.8 In subsequent years after 11:2‘ birth. Cardigan grew

rapidly a: calculate settled in outlying district-3. In 1862, a bridge as built over the Cardigan River. about he mes. below the one we): ainee the new: or the olden: inhabi- tants had spanned the 'Beed or Cudigan'. Road“ leading to the bridge were opened the same year thus mending easy consummation between points of the «amending country. Houses began to wring up along the madame. 3 the Shlpp bade fauna a centre here. Bore T’cotch and with 332111192: arrived to well the population. and everything pointed fie the new

:v'et'tlenent at Cardiac; Bridge am :7 good location for a Manson Church,

During the eighteen hundreds. colonisation smad rapidly to inclme the elation of Re sauna), Seal Raver. endearing. am the :"t. rates Road.

Farming and fishing were the most mportant occupations engaged in by the early settlers: at cmlgnn. 1o this: point Warned the farmers: and fisher-en with men- pro- duc‘e to sell or to barter in exchange for their winter necev Aitlee. wan an abundance of lube:- and labor aval- loolo. Cardigan coon developed into a large ably-building center. According to authentic ship reatwer. that have been wormed. them was the fir-at navel built f‘t Cardigan. Items built in 1842 with a tonnage of 249

8. Informatton given by J.H. Blanchard, retired prefer 'or ' at Charlottetown.

’ 9. Wm 11 mums-1p: at the 1.D.U. librtu-y.