Transportation The main road travels some distance from the shore from east to west in Little Sands . There are two branches, one is the Road, and the other is Blue's Road. As Charlottetown is about 40 miles from Little Sands , many people in the days of trucks (not a motorized vehicle, such as we know today), wagons and sleighs went to Montague. For official papers, such as marriage licences, they went to Georgetown , which meant travelling part of the way by ferry through Mur¬ ray Harbour North. Later, when the Murray Harbour train was installed, along with the Hillsborough bridge, in the early twentieth century, it was much easier to go to Charlottetown . After the train was introduced, the mail came by way of train and for Little Sands it landed in Hopefield . Before that it travelled by horse and the Post Office was in Little Sands . Naturally, the roads were not paved. When the cars got plentiful, their travel caused clouds of dust thicker than snowstorms. Horses were so scared of them that cars were only allowed on the roads two or three days a week. I can recall the first car I saw. I and my two sisters were coming from Sunday school when we heard an unknown noise. We jumped in the field and peeked over the board fence, and along came the doctor's car. When cars first started, the road had been cut down by the wheels of the carriages and the horse tracks. When 113