By Land and By Air

Wood Islands; the next to the East was in Murray River. The closest village to Little Sands was Murray River. There were three roads leading there, varying from six to eight miles. Nobody thought it inconvenient to drive that extra two miles with a horse, especially in the summer.

I remember driving the longer road in the late fall, and when I got a mile from the Strait, I could feel that warm wind blowing off the Strait. The other road was through a lot of wooded area, which was a good shelter against the wind.

There is a church in Little Sands - we went to the 100th Celebration of the church this summer, but the minister kept talking about ”pruning it” and making one church in Murray River to take in Murray Harbour.

THE HOME PLACE

When I went to school there were about 40 farms as I recall; only one was not in production, as that farmer left the farm vacant in the summer. There used to be several cows and sheep, grazing in the clear fields which have since grown up in to woods. The farm next to us, the farmer and family went to the United States. My father said it was nothing to see up to 40 horses roaming in the next field to our house, as the farmer used to buy horses and take them over to the mines in New Brunswick. Today that farm is all grown up in trees or forest. In my early days, there would be over 500 cows in Little Sands, about 100 horses, and at least 1,000 sheep.

There is at least a mile of woods to the north of Little Sands, which not only provided the winter supply of wood, but served as a pasture for the young cattle and sheep during the summer. One had to have good fences

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