By Land and By Air 
     
    
   
   
    
     Prince Street, but I waited until I convinced myself that 
     
    

    
     it really was smoke. Then I ran down the street, to where 
     
    

    
     a policeman was waiting for a parade, and I told him 
     
    

    
     that there was the beginning of a fire on the roof of the 
     
     building, which was a drugstore at that time. He started to 
     
     argue with me and I said, ”Let it burn down then” and he 
     
     went to the back of the building and could see the smoke. 
     
     The fire trucks were about 100 yards away and the poor 
     
     firemen with all their best clothes on, had to pull out of the 
     
     parade and put out the fire - burning an effigy of Old Man 
     
     Depression did not seem to help the cause. 
     
    

    
     It was a good building year in Charlottetown. The 
     
     Forum, the Charlottetown Hotel, and the Prince Edward 
     
     Island Hospital were built. Next year, I was back to 
     
     teaching in Little Sands at $500.00 from the government 
     
     and $100.00 supplement from the district. At the end of the 
     
     year I bought a 1929 Chev car with 20,000 miles, and the 
     
     first tires, for the large sum of $125.00 which gave me a lot 
     
     ofjoy running around, but it was the end of my education. 
     
     The thought of getting married was far from my mind, 
     
     which was quite as well, as at that time my wife was only 
     
     in the elementary grades in school in Nova Scotia. 
     
    

    
     During my third year at Prince of Wales College 
     
     doing my pre-med year, when the builders were working 
     
     on the Prince Edward Island Hospital, ten years seemed a 
     
     long way ahead. Little did I know what the future would 
     
     bring; I would not be a doctor but a Navigator flying over 
     
     Germany, shot at like a flock of geese flying Scuth. I would 
     
     become a doctor 20 years later and start practi:e in Eldon 
     
     in the Spring of 1953. 
     
    

    
     I always prided myself in the fact that i started 
     
     with a pass mark of 400, which was only 50%, the numbers 
     
     then listed in the Guardian. Seventeen years later, I got the 
     
     college prize in 4th year by coming third in the class and 
     
    
   
   
    
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