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| | Report of the Superintendant of Census Returns, Charlottetown, August 23, 1871 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | The inhabitants of the Ferry School District labour under considerable disadvantage which might be removed by closing the road now leading from the Ferry towards Port Hill, and opening the same from the cross roads in a direct line to somewhere about James L. Gillis'. |
 | | The disadvantages of shipping in the fall and spring are great, in consequence of the reluctance of vessel owners to come into St. Peter's Bay, owing to the bleak stormy weather of Autumn, and to the shallowness of the water on St. Peter's Harbour Bar. |
 | | Cardigan Bridge is distant about twelve miles, and Georgetown, about twenty miles, from the center of the Township. |
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