Reflections

he people who lived in the upper part (the east) of Little Sands as I did in the western part.

Little Sands is rather an unusual community. The County Line runs through Little Sands dividing Kings and Queens Counties although we all went to the same school. Eastern and western Little Sands had differ- ent representatives in both federal and provincial gov- ernments.

The people of each section went to different churches. Little Sands church, which had been Presbyterian, joined the United Church in 1925, as part of a three church change that included Murray River and Murray Harbour. People of the western end of Little Sands attended Wood Islands Presbyterian church, where service was held each Sunday in Port Wood hall, which no longer stands. That was in the Belfast district.

All of the people in the western section came from Cape Breton before the Selkirk settlers arrived on the Island. The western section was in a different lot, Lot 62, whereas the east end was in Lot 64. I do not know who sold the earliest farms, but it was not Selkirk.

My father always said we lived in “No Man’s Land.” Today the voting area does not stop at the County Line Road but extends to the area of Port Wood which stops at Panting’s Garage. Fire dues for Little Sands are now paid to the Murray River district.

You may wonder why I did not know as much about t

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