Old photo of gravel ships in along shore. They used to come in and be loaded with gravel from the beach and sailed away. The Gravel ships came from P.E.I They were also loaded by docking at the outer end of the wharf and where the gravel was brought to them by horse drawn dump-carts.Israel Robert and David MacDonald (Old Davie, as we called him) built a track similar to rail tracks from the beach to the end of the wharf, fitted with boxcars also to load the vessels