TRANSPORTATION: EARLY LEADING TO ST. PETERS Loretta Lewis Photo courtesy of Hilda Lewis and Hilda Rossiter Driving over our present roads and highways, it is difficult to unagine their early beginnings as no more than paths made by the early settlers. The portage trails used by the Mi'Kmaq were the first paths made across the Island and were inevitably located close to a bay or nver. An example of one such trail extended from the Fortune River to the St. Peters River . (1) It is Jean Pierre de Roma , a merchant from France, who can be credited with establishing the first road to the St. Peters area. In 1731, a 205