and Alight erviee. The trait hipping Company provided -ten* hip erviee for produce, end operated between the ports of card lean, Georgetown , and Montague, to "ydney, Tiovn coti*. The Shree-Slvere teamship Company established, sbout the year 1915, passenger and freight - erviee from Cardigan , Hbntague, ant Georgetown , to pictou, Fova cotia. She chief exports? from the e Inland port- were ©ate, timber, and potetoeo, while the inports were mainly a winter' -upply of oolai e , ugar, and run.15 At thin time, there was operating in Cardigan several carriage factories, a line kiln mill, a canning factory, as well m tailor ehopc, drug-atoreo, hwtala, and taverns. In the yccre 1904-09, disaster struck the farmerc of the Cardigan district in the form of a hay famine, when all effortn to purchase feed for tfeeir livestock felled, the faraerr were compelled to sell their cattle to Ifcugald ?*»rriron, who operated a ^laughter home at Cardigan . Because of the low prlcer, which they were forced to accept, thlr did little to relieve the eacpenoeo and dictreBw incurred by the farmere*1* In 1385, Cardigan received its fir t perHanant medi¬ cal practitioner in the person of rr. tephen Jenkins. 15. Earl KacJDonald of Cardigan * 16. Prank Fogarty of