well-stocked “temperate” saloon. 
     
    

    
     121. It was an usual part of the wedding festivities. The wedding 
     
     ceremony itself would be a small, simple affair. However if the bride and 
     
     groom were not heading out on a honeymoon, they would often be visited 
     
     by neighbours and friends, who would ensure that they would not have a 
     
     peaceful wedding night. The revellers often would dress in disguise, then 
     
     use everything they could to create as much noise as possible. Shotgun 
     
     blasts, banging on cowbells and buckets, playing fiddles, bugles and 
     
     trumpets, hammering on iron bars, blowing in conches, all to achieve a 
     
     desired effect. 
     
    

    
     122. Large baskets, packed with food, would be prepared by the women 
     
     of the community. Their husbands or boyfriends would be expected to 
     
     bid on the correct basket. Often a considerable amount of money would 
     
     be bid for the pleasure of sharing the repast with the lady in a picnic- 
     
     Styled setting. 
     
    

    
     123. The gentleman in charge of the fiddling was in charge of boring the 
     
     hole for the pump the next day. He bored and bored, and finally bored 
     
     right to the river. There was a considerable fuss, in preventing the newly- 
     
     launched vessel from disappearing into the river. 
     
    

    
     124. A large white whale was shot near the head of the Hillsborough 
     
     River on August 7, 1941. The carcass which measured 16 feet in length 
     
     and weighed almost a ton was displayed on the back of a truck as part of 
     
     the Bristol Day celebrations. Part of the money raised for Bristol was 
     
     collected by charging a fee to 875 people to see the whale. 
     
    

    
     125. August, 1987 at the Souris Regional High School field. While in 
     
     Souris, the horses were housed on the floor of the Eastern Kings Arena. 
     
    
   
   
    
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