A, Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., M.D. C..M, 
     
    
   
   
    
     Belfast area. When I went to Prince of Wales College, and I 
     
     was asked where I came from, it was no good to say Little 
     
     Sands, so I used to say, ”not far from Murray Harbour.” 
     
     Most Islanders knew about the slow Murray Harbour 
     
     train. We used to have two small train stations where we 
     
     could get the train to Charlottetown, one at Hopefield and 
     
     one at Iris. One could always hear the train whistle in the 
     
     morning and in the evening. This is gone, but I assume 
     
     that one can still hear the moaning sound of the bayou at 
     
     the Indian Rock at Wood Islands. 
     
    

    
     In the summer months many vessels used to be 
     
     seen making their way along the Northumberland Strait. 
     
     The Pictou Island light which kept flashing all night, used 
     
     to shine into my bedroom window. I could see the lights of 
     
     New Glasgow, Trenton and Pictou shining in the southern 
     
     area. Directions were easy to define, and I always thought 
     
     of them through my Navigation years. The things that I 
     
     missed more than anything else, when I left there, were the 
     
     longing for a cold drink of water from the spring, and the 
     
     sound of the waves against the shoreline, although they 
     
     could make a very loud noise on a stormy night. 
     
    

    
     Little Sands is divided into Kings and Queens 
     
     counties. I lived on the west of the line, although there 
     
     was only one school. We were in the Belfast district, 
     
     whereas the Eastern was in the Murray River. This meant 
     
     that we voted in Wood Islands and went to church in 
     
     Wood Islands. In fact, I went to Wood Islands East school 
     
     for about three years. My teachers there were Charlie 
     
     Richards, Janet MacDougall and Elizabeth MacDougall. 
     
     In the early years, there was a branch of the Belfast church 
     
     located three farms west of us (the first farm in Little 
     
     Sands). There was a cemetery in the Kings County side of 
     
     the County line, where all the communities around buried 
     
     their dead. There is a large cemetery to the west in 
     
    
   
   
    
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