the road from the old one, operating under the name of David H. Auld & Co. until 1909, when it was bought by P.J. MacDonald. He ran it until 1912, when it was sold to Frank Webster. Subsequent owners and operators have been: —— Hilbert Frizzell, 1920-1936; Eph MacMillan, 1936-7; Charles Willis, 1937-1950; and Grove MacMillan from 1950 to the present day. The retail space has been doubled in size since 1950 and it now operates as a Clover Farm store with self-service for customers.

As well, there have been some stores in Stanhope operating during the summer months only, under the following proprietors: — Willard West, Victor Hudson, Jack Proude, Rhodes Warren, “Aunt Em” MacMillan, Jack Williams, Sheldon Jay, Earl Higgins, Edison MacDonald, Dick Turpin, Henry Redmond, etc. A number of these stores had snack bars or small restaurants attached. A combined restaurant and riding establishment was located in Stanhope on a 16.2 acre parcel of land purchased from Mervyn Robison by Elmer MacRae. The restaurant was opened in the spring of 1966 and served the travelling public and local people for five seasons, before it was destroyed by fire on the eve of its opening for its sixth season in 1971. “Bayview Restaurant” was operated for three seasons by the Charles O’Brien family and for one by the Hanscome family; Catherine Murphy was the manager in 1971.

On this same property and at the same time, the O’Briens operated the “Bayview Riding Club” which consisted of a horse barn and race track with four saddle horses and two race horses. The Hanscomes operated the riding club for two seasons. The horse barn was sold and moved from the community and this 16-acre property was recently acquired from Elmer MacRae by Allan and Sheila Coady.

For an account of a trail-riding business operated by the children of the Martin family for seventeen years, please see their family history.

Thymewood Gift Shop

Thymewood Gift Shop, named after the wild purple thyme which grows on all fields in the Bayshore area of Stanhope, was established in 1953 by Mr. and Mrs. T.M. Lothian of Charlottetown. Tom Lothian, a biology instructor at Prince of Wales College, and his wife Frances (Peg) Lothian, a librarian, hoped to establish a gift shop on P.E.I. where quality handcrafts of the four Atlantic provinces were sold. From 1953 to 1963, the Lothians operated Thymewood Gift Shop on the Bayshore Road. The reputation of the quality of handcrafts sold at Thymewood spread, and the business flourished to include an extension in the Cavendish area for a few years. Quality woven

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