• ailing hlt> that were built et Cardigan , Ifcere exiot. in Cardigan today little evidence re¬ nin! cent of the huge ohip-building and commercial indu - try th t wni once .^o prominent here. In the yenr prior to 1920, five wharves were neeecaary in order to handle the large flow of imports and exports. Only one of the; e wher- veo ha been maintained to the present day, r^ it har -»een inactive for everal yeer». Gone ere the wharve; formerly onied end oneratod by Lemuel C. Owen , J amor e. Kcfonnld, Owen Connelly , and Captain Joseph Heronald , Prior to 1900, two wooden bridge' we e built over th Cardigan River , and in 1513, a teel bridge waa construc¬ ted which served the need, of the people until it was* replaced in 1959 by a causeway, She early commercial life in Cardigan wao mainly one of general merchendiae and eraftman hip. In the la t half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth century, tore were owned and operated by the following peoplei Jome^ E. Mctonald , Hugh (lord) Kcronald, Morrison and Tferg n, Jexae Norton, BSra, Captain "haw, Captain Jo epfe Mcroreld, pne Br,, Jaiaen E. McDonald . J !any of the pv>ove mentioned men, p.port from being managers of tore-, were al^o actively engaged in the fishing end import and export trrde.