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q Jerimented with the latest and best in agricultural machinery. It was

_ WhO first introduced spraying for the, potato bug, and it is said that '_ was responsible for urging the introduction of plowing matches. '

71 Around the turn of the century, with his foresight and progressive ture, he advocated the building of a causeway between New Brunswick d Prince Edward Island. However, realizing that this was not going to

possible, he concentrated on the idea of a carferry, and he played a zding role in the fight to get the Borden-Tormentine ferry service tablished in 1917, and was known by many as “the father of the car- cry”. He wrote letters to the Federal Minister, James Richards, in O-t- vva but received no answers. Realizing that Mr. Richards was more

’ §terested in the Steam Navigation Company than in a carferry, he be- .n to register his letters to him and then received replies. Around 1909

a 1910. a meeting was held in Emerald with Capt. Joseph Read of the ovincial House as guest speaker. So eager was Mr. MacFadyen to have

3e public hear the talk that he hired a train from Cape Traverse to

herald (about $40). A few months later he hired another train to : fiarlottetown on the same mission.

Truly it was said of him that he was for anything that was for i e good of the Island. Mr. MacFadyen, who never married, spent all his 'e in Augustine Cove, where he died on March 30, 1937, at the age of 72.

m..- ,0 magma, .

ELMA B. INMAN

Elma Barbara, the only living child of Job and Ida (nee Dawson) Ina11,.Was born one stormy night, January 13, 1897. She. attended the gustive Cove one-room school, after which she went to Prince of Wales lege in Charlottetown, and then taught school for five years. The yon Methodist, later United, church added to many other good influences

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