I was born in 1917, and lived all my life at East Point. My father's name was Fred Cheverie, and my mother's maiden name was MacLean. My grandmother on the MacLean side was a Creamer. My grandfather's name was Jim Cheverie and his wife was a Conway. My grandfather came from New Zealand P .E.I.

My father fished and farmed. He used to fish when I was growing up. I didn't have very much education; I had to stay home and do the farming work. In those days, they didn't go beyond grade eight. So then, I was the oldest in the family and had a lot of work to do. From the time I was little I looked after the horses and cows; when I was old enough I drove horses around the field to harrow. In those days there were no tractors.

There used to be a lobster factory up here at East Point owned by a Maclntyre and then it was sold to a Johnson. They used to come up in the early spring on the train. You'd have to meet them .There were muddy roads with no pavement, so we had a team of horses and a truck wagon. Perhaps the train wouldn't leave until ten o'clock at night. I remember one time they came with horse and sleigh from Fortune. There was someone down there took them up as far as Black Pond. My father and I went down there and met them and took them up the rest of the way. We had two to four horses. We didn't do too much for fun except for house dances and stuff like that. We made out own hand sleighs.

I was born in the old farmhouse and stayed on my father's farm next door. I had four sisters and three brothers. One sister is in Ontario and a brother was in Ontario but moved here last year. The rest are married and live around here. Two brothers were in the Air Force and one came home to start carpenter work. My father had a workshop and forge and in the wintertime we used to build sleighs and shoe horses. We built traps, and even built coffins for some kids in the immediate neighborhood. The first bicycle I got was advertised second hand for 10 or $15.00. I was married when I was 30 in 1949. I built this house after I got married. We have three boys; one is a teacher, one works for C.M.H.C. in Charlottetown and the third runs his own carpentry business.