Two of our summer residents from the United States, Jay and Mildred Thorne, set out for Cape Breton in June, 1955, but they were persuaded by the Information Bureau attendant at Aulac to visit P.E.I. instead. Travelling “dusty” highway 6, they ended up in Stanhope, with no accommodation ready for tourists. However, Dorothy Douglas and Minnie MacFadyen at Kiloran Lodge took them in, though they were not open for business; and the Thornes returned to Kiloran for the next four summers. In 1959 they bought the MacAulay property on the Stanhope East Road, from Bruce and Beth Ellis, and renovated the house for use as a summer home. They came every summer for increasingly long periods, and are now, since 1980, year-round residents on the Island.

Helen Loughlin, who wrote the verse for the Prince Edward Island tartan designed by Jean Reed of West Covehead, has affectionate memories of the cottage built by her cousin Warren Duchemin next to his own, which she and her husband rented and finally bought, in 1946. In early days it had outdoor plumbing, oil lamps, and a pump halfway between the two cottages; this was standard equipment for cottages in the 1940s. The Island tartan verse was written one afternoon at the cottage: —

The warmth and glow of the fertile soil, The green of field and tree;

The yellow and brown of the autumn, The white ofsurfon a summer sea

The Hyndman cottage on the-Bayshore Road was built in 1947 on land bought by A.W. Hyndman from Rupert Ross. Mrs. Etta Hyndman remembers Will Ross building the cottage at a time when supplies were extremely scarce Second-hand bricks were used to build the chimney, and the fireplace front was made of cement set with stones gathered from Stanhope beach. Barn windows were used, and unseasoned lumber. Plumbing supplies were almost impossible to come by, and the first kitchen sink was a battered re-used office sink, about 7 x 9 inches. An old hand-pump conveyed water to a barrel fastened to the rafters, for bathroom use, and everyone took a turn at the pump. Mrs. Hyndman also recalls that the land was originally a bare hayfi'eld, and scores of trees and shrubs were planted the large chestnut beside the cottage was grown from a seedling with two tiny

' leaves, carried from Charlottetown in a strawberry box. Next to the Hyndmans is a cottage originally built for Andrew Malcohn and Katherine Hyndman, on half of the Hyndman lot. It was sold to Colonel K.S. Rogers in 1952, completely furnished with Andrew Malcolm furniture, and it became the Rogers/Morrow family cottage.

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