The Blacksmith: Remembering Malcolm MacFayden
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In the horse and buggy daystwo of the most important businessesin a community were theblacksmith and carriage shops.In some cases these trades werecombined and one shop servedboth purposes. Such was the casein the community of Canoe Cove.Although the surrounding communitieshad their resident blacksmiths:Campbell in DeSable,McGillvary in Churchill, andMacEachern in Long Creek; it wasthe combined blacksmith and carriagebusiness in Canoe Cove thatsurvived the advent of the automobileand, adapting well to changingtimes, continued to prosperuntil the early 1960s.
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- Title
- The Blacksmith: Remembering Malcolm MacFayden
- Creator
- Morrisson, Kathleen
- Subject
- Island Magazine, Prince Edward Island Museum
- Description
- In the horse and buggy daystwo of the most important businessesin a community were theblacksmith and carriage shops.In some cases these trades werecombined and one shop servedboth purposes. Such was the casein the community of Canoe Cove.Although the surrounding communitieshad their resident blacksmiths:Campbell in DeSable,McGillvary in Churchill, andMacEachern in Long Creek; it wasthe combined blacksmith and carriagebusiness in Canoe Cove thatsurvived the advent of the automobileand, adapting well to changingtimes, continued to prosperuntil the early 1960s.
- Publisher
- Prince Edward Island Museum
- Contributor
- Date
- 2001
- Type
- Document
- Format
- application/pdf
- Identifier
- vre:islemag-batch2-639
- Source
- 49
- Language
- en_US
- Relation
- Coverage
- Rights
- Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.