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, /;.§ .9. Review by Ken Ma'cKinnon

Standhope: Sands of Time' 1s one of the better examples or the numerous local9‘ histories being produced in Eastern Canada today. Professional historians and , those Prince Edward Islanders who still get their sense i. of the province’s terrain by;“lot” (or township) number will see here an account of the origins and subsequent development of the shoreward past of lot 34. Back' 1n the ﬁriteiﬁéosxwheii mmually no Britsh Settlement ”on the Island, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, Sir James -Montgon1ery, the most powerful Scottish politician of ;the time, picked the Stanhope district as the site of a col- ionizing and commercial venture. Over the past few years, in articles in- Audiensis and The Dictionary of} lCanadiari Biography historian J. M. Bumsted has ex- _'-plored the significant role played by Montgomery' 1n the lsland’s early development and“ has detailed the vicissitudes of his colonial enterprises. Events connected Ewith Montgomery’ 8 Island investments will no doubt ifrgure largely' in Dr. Bumsted’s history of the colony to 1815 soon to be published. It is appropriate therefore éth t this historian has provided the current volume with “Foreword. W” When Bumsted mentions in his SFOreword that .“the husband of the Chancellor” of his I {university (the University of Manitoba) “is descended ‘ 5 from the auld who ﬁrst landed on the lsland' in 1770, " > 1 .he is not only reminding us of the extent to 'which we I ‘smust see early settlements like Stanhope as seed-beds fer . our far-ﬂung contemporary canadian community, he' is; ,. also hinting at the book’s wider significance. .. » _ Qa' There are a number of ways in which this book pro-‘ . . vides documentation for the whole process of the , removal of people from the farms to the cities. The most fascinating Section (pp. 203-51) deals with what happens ‘ when the urbanites return as tourists and cottagers. For, apart from Cavendish, this is the Island community that has been most affected by the introduction of the Na- . tional Park 1n the late 19305 and by the subsequent ex- . ., plosion of. the tourist population. The sections on ' agriculture, church life, education, and business il-' 5 lustrate 1n their different ways the complexity of change. ; The impact of change on agriculture was most 4‘ ‘devastating: ”There are only three full-time farmers 1n ' 7 Stanhope now, where' m the 1880s there were forty two” i (p. 43). On the other hand, had not a certain if modest j commercialism developed in the community, the story of Harry MacLauchlin as a successful P. E. 1. en— ‘

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