Horace Marshall home - szte of McCabe’s store and post office and later telephone office and exchange operated by Marshalls. Parks Canada - Joe Hickey

settlers as David Lawson, Duncan MacLaren, Duncan MacEwen and David Higgins (Montgomery agent at Three Rivers). Later, all Island mail came to the Charlottetown Post Office, to be collected there. It is surprising how well agents and settlers kept in touch with pro- prietors, friends and relations, in Great Britain, considering how slow the mails were.

The first Post Office in the Stanhope-Covehead area was kept by James Auld, from 1852 to 1857. Lemuel Miller was post master from 1857 to 1860, followed by David Lawson, who had the Post Office in his home “Mount Joy” until 1881. Up until this time the mail was collected by courier from Charlottetown and delivered to the Post Offices for sorting, at first only once a week. The railway came to York in 1875, and from 1881 on, mail came by rail from Charlottetown to the York station, and was collected from there by the couriers and delivered to the local Post Offices. Henry Curtis Lawson had the PD. in Stanhope from 1882 to 1905, then Malcolm MacLeod was post- master from 1905 until 1933. Part of his contract was to deliver mail all the way to the Point; in winter Malcolm’s son, Harry, used to hitch his pet collie dag to a hand-sleigh and run the mail down the Bay ice to the Cliff Hotel at the Point. Frank McCabe had the Post Office from 1933 to 1937, followed by James B. McCabe for one year. Mrs. Eleanor Misener was postmistress from 1938 to 1961; her

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