rmkoolc, meaning e imdjr shore.8 In subsequent year.3 after it: birth, Cardigan grew rapidly a colonists settled in outlying districts. In 1862, a bridge was built over the Cardigan River , about two mileo below the one which inee the meaofty of the oldest inhabi- tantw had spanned the « Head of Cardigan *. Road leading to the bridge were opened tho name rear, thus affording eacy coamanicatior. between all points of the urro nding country. Houses began to rring up along the road; ide" i the ^hipping trade found a centre here, Worm cotch and frinh fanil ice arrived to f^ell the population, and everything pointed to the new ettlement at Cardigan bridge as s good location for a miseion Church,. During the eighteen hundreds, eolonieation spread rapidly to include the diatrioto of Bo -eneath, 5aal River, Clenfenring, and the t, , Faraing and fishing were the most important occupation; engaged in y the early settlers at Cardigan . So thie point traver ed the farmere and fiaheraen with their pro¬ duce to oell or to barter in exchange for their winter necex' lties. With an abundance of lumber awS labor avai¬ lable, Cardigan ooon developed into a large hip-buildine center, According to authentic rhip regi tor that h?ve been pre erved, the Alfred was the first vee el built nJ Cardigan . It waa built in 1842 with a tonnage of 249 8. Information given by J,H , Blanchord, retired profe or at Charlottetown , 9. gj^iion of All ain^s. a manuscript at the ,I). U . library.