CRAPAUD HEALTH CENTRE

Crapaud Health Centre was officially opened on August 11, 1953, after many months of work and planning on the part of Miss Mona Wilson, Director of Public Health Nursing in this province, who made it possible to have a new Health Centre in this area.

This centre serves 40 School districts, from New Haven to Borden, along the south shore, and extending to Breadalbane, Emerald, and Free- town on the north.

At the District Convention of the Women’s Institute at Tryon in June 1953, Miss Wilson introduced Miss Jean McGaughey, P.H.N., a recent graduate of Dalhousie University School of Nursing, who had been ap— pointed to take over the duties as Public Health Nurse as soon as the work on the building was completed, where the centre is located.

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TRUE BROTHERS LODGE NO. 8, A.F. & A.M.

True Brothers Lodge No. 8 AF. and A.M. was first organized at Tryon, and the number of the Lodge was 1251.

The Charter members were: Alexander Dunbar, John Muirhead, John Lang, John McWilliams, Henry C. D. Trining, John D. Reid, Albert Henry Compton, and others.

The Charter was granted on the 28th. day of January, 1869, by Thomas Dundas, Earl of Zetland, Baron Dundas of Aske etc., etc., Grand Master of the most ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and accep- ted Masons of England.

The first meeting of the Lodge was held at Tryon on June 23, 1869. ‘The following Officers were installed by Past Master, W. J. Hunt, as- sisted by Past Masters J. W. Riley and R. A. Hunt, all of King Hiram Lodge.

John Muirhead W.M. J. D. Reid Sec’y. John McWilliams S.W. W. B. Clark S.D. John Lang J .W. George Howatt J .D. S. E. Dawson Treas. John McDonald Tyler

At a meeting of the Lodge on December 14, 1869, it was decided to celebrate St. John’s night with a supper at Crawford’s Hotel, Tryon. The sum of five pounds, six shillings, and nine pence was raised for the pur- pose, by subscription.

The Committee, consisting of Bros. John Lang, James R. Reid, and John Muirhead, was instructed that the supper must be on strict temper- ance principles, with no intoxicating liquors of any kind to be furnished.

At a meeting of the Lodge, held on May 14, 1872, a bill of one pound, five shillings, and five pence, was ordered paid; while at another meeting held on August 27, 1872, a bill for $25.23 was ordered paid; so that the change from pounds, shillings, and pence, to dollars and cents, would seem to have taken place between those two dates.

At a meeting of the Lodge on February 9, 1875, a delegation was appointed to attend a meeting in Summerside, for the purpose of organiz- ing an Independant Grand Lodge for Prince Edward Island.

The last regular meeting of the Lodge at Tryon, would appear from the minutes, to have been held on January 8, 1894. No mention is made

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