A History of Elmsdale , West, and Brockton , MAIL CONTRACT Sealed Tenders, addressed to the Postmaster General* will be received at Ottawa until noont on Friday, the 9th May, 1913, for the conveyance of His Majesty's Mails, on a proposed contract for four years, six times per week over Rural Ho» lt from Elmsdale , Prince Edward Island ,*at the pleasure of the Post¬ master General Printed notices containing further information as to conditions of proposed con tract may be seen and blank forms of tender may be obtained at the Post Offices of Elmsdale and Route Offices and at the office of the Poet Office Inspector. l*o*t Office Inspector's Offioeg CVtown. March SSth , 1913. JOHN F, WHEAR Post Office In, Agriculturist , April 12,1913 Lillian Adams Coll. The former James Hardy house from the , hauled to Elmsdale by Daniel Adams when his first house and post office burned. The post office was in a porch similar to the one now on it in 2006. It is currently the home of Thane and Stephanie Arsenault. In the diary of Basil MacNeill it stated: "De¬ cember 11,1912- Charlie Dunn was getting subscribers for the mail boxes. They are get¬ ting a mail route on ." In April of 1913 rural route service began in Elmsdale - six days a week - under a four- year contract. In an interview with Vernon Hardy, he recalled: While Daniel Adams ran the post office in his house from 1916 to 1932, his sons Ralph and Lloyd got the mail as it came off the train. They took it to the post office and it was sorted right then. It didn't matter if it was nine o'clock, or twelve o'clock at night. They would meet the train again at 7:30 in the morning when it was returning from Tignish en route to Charlottetown with the mail. A letter mailed in the morning would reach its destination that afternoon. The man on the train sorted the mail into 259