Abbreviations used
Date January 23 1892
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Sun
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Letters received from Vancouver, B.C. show that two P.E.I. boys now living there, Malcolm McLEOD and J. ANDERSON have recently made a big haul out there. Not long since they received the contract for the construction of a dyke on a piece of marsh land. The contract prce was in the vicinity of $80,000 and it is said the contractors cleared about half of it.