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was afterwards moved down and stood until lately in England's 

 Hollow. I was a boy at this time and went to school to one James 

 Henderson, an uncle of my own, who kept school in the little 

 schoolhouse that is still standing on the brow of the hill, below 

 Donald Fraaer's. Joseph Russell afterwards sold this shipyard to 

 Joseph Cunard, and himself moved to Beaubear's Island, buying a 

 shipyard from Fraser & Thorn there. He died, and is buried 

 there on the island. Ounard carried on shipbuilding on a large 

 scale in this Russell shipyard in Chatham until his failure in 1848. 

 Donald MacLachlan. and his uncle Jno. MacLachlan, built boats 

 in the yard for his ships until he failed, and then they went to 

 Pictou, but Donald returned afterwards and did business in 

 Chatham until his death. 



After Cunard's faihire, Mason built ships here for Johnston & 

 Mackie, for some time. Then Jacob C. Gough, M. P. P., 

 built there until 1872, when the late Governor J. B. Snowball 

 built his mill which now stands there. 



Aft€r Cunard's failure Mason and myself built a schooner 

 together and we took eighteen passengers in her to Boston. They 

 were glad to get away from here, as there was nothing doing here 

 at that time, everything being very flat. 



About Middle Island : A. D. Shirreff , the father of John and 

 Adam Shirreff, lived in England's Hollow, and had a distillery 

 there on the bank, on the east side of the Pulp Company's dam. 

 He got or bought what is now called Middle Island, from the 

 Admiralty, and established a large fishing business there, with 

 fish sheds and tanks, on the northeast corner of the island, which 

 we called Barataria, in memory of Sancho Panza's Island. He 

 got in debt to Cunard, and the island passed from him to Cunard. 

 There was a wharf at the southeast corner, the remains of which 

 showed up at a very low tide in 1910. After Cunard, the Hon. 

 Wm. Muirhead got the island and sold if to the Dominion Gov 

 ernment about 1872 or '73. It was, I believe, in Cunard's posses- 

 sion in 1847, when the ship fever patients were there. I remember 

 that time very well. The first ship that was quarantined was 

 Loostauck, the second was the Richard White. Dr. Key was 

 quarantine physician at that time. The bark Bolliver came m 

 next and was going right up to 'Gilmour & Rankin's to load, and 

 when hailed was not for stopping, but ke^jt on her course. Dr. 



