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worked at this probably close to fifty years, until about 195]. He was a master of his trade, and often stories were told of him hauling a home long distances without so much as cracking the plaster. In the old days, a

number of men would raise a building up by means of long prys, place long runners under it, then gently let it down to rest on the runners. Heavy

chains were then attached to the runners, and horses hitched to the chains, the number depending on the size of the building. Mr. Millar used a ’capstan’ to great advantage, which was something like a series of blocks,

and permitted the building to move smoothly.

Mr. Millar raised the United Church in Lot To for a new foundation, hauled a large barn from North St. Eleanors to Ed Millar’s in Lot 16, and countless more. At one time he hauled a house fora Mr. MacCormack from

Sherbrooke. They left the house in a nearby field overnight, and there was a barrel of lime in the house. It rained in the night and the house caught

fire and burned.

At one time he raised a ship which had gone aground in Egmont Bay. The ship was raised by means of iacks, then hauled on ice to deep water where it sunk through in the Spring and refloated. Another time he was hauling a large house for Elmer Sharbell of Portage, when the house sank in the Percival River right to the eaves, not once, but twice,‘ but it was raised with iack screws back to the ice, the runners put under it and completed the iourney to Portage. Winter was a favorite time for this work, when the ground was frozen solid, and many homes were hauled on the ice. This sometimes presented some difficulties, if the ice would sink, but for the most part it was a very satisfactory means of travel. Nowadays, with telephone and power lines, permits are required to move a building, and little of it is done, and what there is is done with heavy machinery.

LOT 1 6 UNITED CHURCH

HISTORY OF RICHMOND BAY UNITED CHURCH

The first Presbyterian Minister to visit the Province of Prince Edward Island was the Reverend James MacGregor of Pictou, Nova Scotia, in the year 1791. At the time of his first visit, ther was only one road in the whole Province, from Charlottetown'to Covehead, a distance of 15 miles. In the Spring of 1809, Rev. John Kier was called to Malpeque and in June, 1810, he was ordained and inducted into the pastoral Charge of the congregation. After Mr. Kier’s settlement at Princetown, he supplied Lot 16

and Lot 14 until 1819 when the Rev. Allen Nichol was ordained into ther

Pastoral Charge of the Richmond Bay congregation. How far West this congregation extended at this time we cannot say, but believe it was Lot 14

and Lot 16. Mr. Nichol died after one year’s service. In the year 1821, the Rev. William MacGregor, grandfather of Mr. W.H. MacGregor, succeeded

Mr. Nichol in the Pastorate of Richmond Bay, and his Ministry continued

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