MANSON’S STORE

Ella Smith sold small store to Ella Manson on Oct. 15, 1940 - Mrs. Manson kept store for two years

PALETHORPES - lived in the John Murphy house - operated a store in the front of the house

FLEMING BROS.

D’Arcy, Dermot and Arthur Fleming - [Genealogy - Hope River Road] - used present day store for business - sold business to Mrs. Alma Fleming on May 9, 1934

FLEMING’S STORE

Mrs. Alma Fleming, wife of Dr. J.E. Fleming, owner of store after the Fleming Brothers - sold store to K.R. MacKay on Sept. 12, 1947

K.R. MacKAY GENERAL STORE

Kenneth and Audrey MacKay owners of store from 1947 to 1977 - store sold to Robert C. and Rosalee Bowness on Sept. 26, 1977

BOWNESS GROCERY STORE

Robert and Rosalee Bowness took over business and sold store three years later (June 19, 1980) to Helen Waite, Kensington

VILLAGE GROCERY STORE

Sharon and Stanley Coles were next owners - purchased business Oct. 30, 1981 - other owners include;

Kim Homer Brenda and Chris Bushell - lived in store apartment - purchased store Nov. 1991

moved to Ontario - store closed for two years Lorne Larkin - opened store in 1996

LYDIARD

EDWARD LANGLEY LYDIARD b. 1813 in Nova Scotia. He came to Prince Edward Island from Pictou, N.S., on November 23, 1845 aboard the vessel The Conqueror. According to the records Mrs. Lydiard and one child came to the Island on August 1, 1847. Presumably Mr. Lydiard was twice married and resided at first, in the Charlottetown area. Records state that he was a passenger on the Fairy Queen, the steamship ferry, which made regular trips from Charlottetown to Pictou. The vessel sank off Pictou, N.S., on October 8, 1853. Mr. Lydiard, one of the survivors, gives his residence in 1853 as Charlottetown. Seven other passengers drowned.

Mr. Lydiard must have come to reside in Stanley after 1856. LYDIA (Marten? Martin?) Lydiard - wife of EDWARD L. LYDIARD - d. Nov. 6, 1856 at the age of 41 years -

[son] Robert McNair b. Sept. 18, 18_? [unreadable] . ' ' [daughter] Annie May (June 30, 1850 — Sept. 8, 1851) [died of diphtheria]

The Islander, newspaper of July 5, 1861, reads:

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