Charlotte town. His widow and two children got a good price for their place and they moved to Kilmuir in the 1840s and took up land there. And there was the MacQueens came to Point Prim , too, in the early days. All the land was taken up there and some of their relatives that they came out to Point Prim through gave them a piece of land at the shore. They built a house and they fished and done labour work around. And then, when Kilmuir opened up, they come up there and there was three families of MacQueens. Early Tasks Their first work was to build a log house for themselves..., and then to cut down the trees and plant their first crop. The majority of that was potatoes, and then they had some oats and grew some wheat. I heard a saying that the first instrument they had for to cut the oats and wheat was scissors. Well, their fields was very small then. When they got the land cleared a little more they started clearing probably half an acre every year: enough for the family to eat, you know, before there was a market for potatoes. The bigger trees they'd just cut them down, leave the big stumps - they were too big for them to take out. And they 'd cut the smaller trees and stump the smaller stumps out and sow their potatoes - put their potatoes, wheat in. Then, of course, later on, the saw mills came in. The first handy saw mill to Kilmuir was Brooklyn . Man by the name of Will Taylor came from Wood Islands and he built a dam there. That was in '49,1 believe, 1849. He put a water wheel in and he had the up-and-down saws driven by the water wheel. There was a house torn down some time ago and it was sawed with the up-and-down saw: you could see the marks. That was at Kilmuir .... They put birch bark in the seams of all the boards and that was the first house in Kilmuir that was built. I kinda forget the date. I got some of the nails that was taken out of it: they were square nails and the spikes was made by hand, I believe, in the forges. My father bought the house, probably around 1910or 1911.1 just barely remember them hauling it. He hauled it down and he shingled it and put paper under the shingles, and that was the warmest house in Kilmuir . When a house was being built, the ones in the settlement mostly got together...and helped one another. I know of one house they built: it wasn't a very big house. There was a widow there they called Peggy MacPhee . She lived over in the woods there and we called her Peggy -in-the-Bush . Angus McGowan 15