down the hemlock trees and they'd take the bark off and take it to the tanner's. And then there was the harness makers, we mustn't forget. They called them the saddlers. They used a lot of leather, too, from the tannery. There was a Stewart in Montague: they called him the Saddler. His family, they called them the Saddlers, too. A name carries on you know. And there was carpenters there in Kilmuir and surrounding. There was a main carpenter used to come to our house, was John MacLeod . He lived in Valleyfield . He's dead many years ago. He done that woodwork that's in our house in Kilmuir : he done that probably 65 years ago. That was white birch and there was some bird's eye maple in it, mostly from Caledonia . And there was some beech in it, too. I believe that was finished up in the Klondike, where the MacPhersons had the mill. They had a very up-to-date mill there, for all it was back in the woods, in the Klondike. It'd be Hughie's* father, Sandy MacPherson . In the early days, [the Klondike was] a very out-of-the-way place, very few houses. The gold rush was on then and one fellow went up there. He says, "This is like the Klondike," he says. "It's very out, there's nobody living here. It's an out-of-the-way place." So they called it the Klondike after that. Scholars About 1890 or a little before that, they started a school at Kilmuir . The hall is still there yet... . Then, about 1900, they built another little school east of Kilmuir . The first school at Kilmuir , there was 60 scholars... , one teacher. She was a Margaret Murchison from Point Prim . She was born on the place that Hector Beck MacLeod has now.... And there were several very talented scholars came from that school. My brother Jackie come out of that school: he was a doctor. And Billy William MacPhee , he was a doctor up in Massachusetts . And there was a Doctor Malcolm MacKinnon , too, and several people. I guess there was in all schools, but these were quite a few you know. I didn't learn very much in Kilmuir School, didn't know my lessons. I was only 15 years and seven months old when I went out on a harvest excursion. Ten years and a half in the West. I was out to the coast of British Columbia , 'cross the States to Washington and Oregon and California . Braver than I am today. Angus McGowan 17