So fare thee well for I must leave thee
Do not let the parting grieve for the
Time has come for you and I to say
Good-bye, adieu, adieu kind friends adieu
I can no longer stay with you
So I'll hang my heart on a weeping willow tree
Fare thee well, fare thee well.

THE QUIGLEYS

As far as it is known, the Quigleys came from St. Joseph's to Harricott. This is according to the tombstones in the cemetery in St. Joseph's, although you can't clearly read the dates. As history has it, the Quigleys were the first people to lie in Harricott. There were two brothers, Ned and Dennis. Ned stayed in Harricott on what was known as Quigley's Island. His family consisted of four daughters and two sons. One of his daughters was married in Admiral's Beach, two in Mitchell's Brook and one in Harricott.

Dennis married a girl from Colinet Island named Catherine Dobbin. She was Pad Dobbin's daughter. He moved to Colinet and later moved to Branch on the Cape Shore with his family. There are some of his relations still there today. Quigley's Pond on the Nine Mile Road is called after him.

OLD HARRICOTT or HARRY'S COVE

In 1937 there were seven of the original families in Harricott. Two families of Byrne's, two families of Evoys and one family of Walls. The Byrne family came from Holyrood, the Walls came from Vardy Crossing and the Evoys from Ireland. There were two families on the Tickle Shore by the names of Fitzgerald and Doyle. They both moved to Salmonier. There were two families of Gregorys on Gregory's Island.

In 1928 or 1929 there was only a horse and cart road to Colinet. The government of the day put a road there. They had men, horses and carts from all around the bay hired to build the road. The men stayed everywhere and anywhere they could, even in cellars belonging to the Evoys and Joe Wall. There were men and horses from as far away as St. Mary's and Gaskiers. There was a blacksmith from St. Mary's by the name of Bonia. He had two paper shacks that he used for forges so he could shoe horses and sharpen picks. The road was built by pick and shovel.

At that time there was no road going up the side of the Pond by Byrnes. The old road went up by the side of Jim Byrne's house and came out on Colinet Road. It is still there to be seen. There was no bridge in Harricott because they lost the wooden bridge with a tidal wave. Then the children from Harricott couldn't get to school because the school was on the other side of the pond. The men had to put a small wooden bridge to the head of the river and cut a path up the side for the children to get to school and also to get back to Salmonier. One of the teachers who taught school there in 1919 is still alive today.

The school here was a small building and was also used for a Church. In 1938 or 1939, a larger school was built. It was later sold and taken down after the children started being bussed to school.