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     A locally owned bank. However, the enterprise was not established. ° 
     
     Smallpox. 
     
    

    
     Prohibition came into effect. 
     
    

    
     An Island-wide plebiscite sustained prohibition. 
     
    

    
     Taking a solemn vow to abstain from the use of alcoholic beverages. 
     
     1912. 
     
    

    
     A large group of disgruntled farmers met to form an Island branch 
     
     of the United Farmers of Canada. 
     
    

    
     8. James (Jimmy Dan) Campbell’s. The daily passenger train from 
     
     Charlottetown overshot the tracks at the end and went across the road 
     
     coming to rest inches trom the horse’s shed. 
     
    

    
     9. William Clark (1900-1974). His father’s sister Elizabeth Ida Melinda 
     
     Clark was born in 1873 in Mt. Stewart. She married William Miller, Lord 
     
     Telefergus of Scotland, had no children, and willed the estate to William, 
     
     son of Ira H. and Lottie M. (nee Leard) Clark. William married Marjorie 
     
     Gregory of Scotland and had two sons. 
     
    

    
     10. At St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Souris rests the remains 
     
     of Elizabeth McDonald, the wife of Andrew MacInnis. She died on 
     
     December 15, 1852 at the age of 65. The stone states that she was a 
     
     native of Lochabar, Scotland and was distinguished with this honour at a 
     
     ball. 
     
    

    
     11. A gentleman’s agreement was reached that the incumbents for First 
     
     Kings, John MacLean a Conservative and James R. MacLean (no relation) 
     
     a Liberal, would be allowed to continue representing the district without 
     
     being subjected to the trouble and expense of an election and the usual 
     
     platform pledges. They were elected by acclamation. 
     
    

    
     12. When you drove into Morley’s, you had a choice of either Imperial 
     
     or Irving Oil brands. All you had to do was ask. 
     
    

    
     13. In March, 1991, residents of the area looking North-east could see 
     
     the lights of the Magdalen Islands, about 75 miles away. They could see 
     
     lights in various patterns, some stationary, others in motion. Also, what 
     
     was believed to be a lighthouse flashed regularly. Scientifically this 
     
     phenomenon should have been impossible; however there was an open 
     
     area of water surrounding the Islands with heavy pack ice beyond. It was 
     
     determined that the Campbell’s Cove folks were seeing a reflected image 
     
     on a bright clear night. 
     
     14. FourRoyal Air Force members made a forced landing of their Anson 
     
     training aircraft on a treacherous ice floe of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. 
     
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     AUR WNE