FOCUS ON THE DISTRICT

**  Taken from Page 12, Recorder TV-Travel Times - Focus On the District - by Harry Painting **

Alfred's brother, Mort, bought the west half of Lot 12 on Island Road, 100 acres, on October 19, 1903, from Andrew Thomas Moffat, a descendant of the Moffatt’s listed in the1861 map.
Mort Alberry erected a farmhouse at the corner where Island Road branched off to the north to before Purdy's Road.  This road crossed Purdy's Creek and wound up in Snowden's Corners.  At the time Mort built his home, he was at the dead end of Island Road .
Mort Alberry took as his bride a cousin, Jane Alberry.  They were childless, but they took a young lad, Francis Charles Hammond, to raise.

               ** Taken from Page 12, Recorder TV-Travel Times - Focus On the District - by Harry Painting **

ASPARAGUS FERNS

At the end of Island road, six-foot tall asparagus ferns tower, showing where the old timers cultivated their asparagus beds.  Day lilies and other flowers still bloom where the pioneers planted them.

The deer and the fox, the skunk and the weasel, still roam the woods, and black snakes slither through the tall grass.  Back off the road is the old Alberry milk house and the remains of barns.  A concrete tank which once held milk stands beside the old Alberry well.  The pump has been pulled out of the well, but it probably would produce water if the mechanism was reinstalled.

** Taken from Page 12, Recorder TV-Travel Times - Focus On the District - by Harry Painting **

RAN SAWMILL

The owner-operator was Alfred Alberry, whose homestead stood adjacent to the mill (on the south-east side of Island Road].  Descendant of pioneer settlers of the area, Alberry purchased the west half of Lot 13, on Island Road , in the seventh concession of Wolford township.  Born in 1863, Alberry wed a girl named May, born in 1880.  They had five children, Irene, Ina, Raymond, Vera and Norman.

LOGGED IN WINTER

Alfred Alberry ran the mill for about 15 years and in the 1920s, sold out to Francis Hammond.  Area lumbermen cut logs only in the winter, to make use of the snow cover in sledding the logs to the mill.  The sawyers generally completed sawing the winter supply of logs sometime in March.