A correspondent for the Guardian newspaper describes the weather, crop conditions, and fishing up to early September, 1906.
- A few fields of grain are cut. The crop will not be a large one.
- From Basin Head West fish catches have been made, east from that and along the north shore there has been nothing doing. Mackerel fishing was a failure.
- A few Gloucester, Massachusetts seiners are still cruising around East Point, searching for survivors of the slaughter, but their success has been small.
- Elisha Baker, one of the few surviving persons who was fishing off Cascumpec, PEI in a small 47-ton schooner, the Abigail Gold, during the Yankee Gale of 1851, was experiencing failing health.
- During the Yankee Gale, Elisha Baker’s neighbour, John R. Morrow, Capt. Cushing ( a brother-in-law of Morrow from Portland, Maine) and three sons were drowned in the American schooner, Fair Play, off Tracadie Beach, PEI
Sources: Guardian, Sept. 7, 1906; Islander newspaper, Oct. 17, 1851.
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