The Post Office was built in 1911-1912, and it officially opened in 1913. The building of this public edifice was due to the efforts of local politicians Charles Dalton and Dr. Patrick Charles Murphy. Built in a neo-Romanesque style, popular at the turn of the century, the Post Office was designed by David Ewart, the chief architect with the department of public works from 1897-1914. This building is the only Ewart building of its type on P.E.I. The Post Office is best renowned for its eighty-five year old town clock which has been a dependable fixture in Tignish for most of the century. Larry Perry, who worked with the Walthem Watch Co. in the U.S., assembled the town clock when it arrived in 1914. The clock was repaired in 1980-1981 after a period of non-operation for many years. Former postmasters of the Post Office are as follows: Nicholas Conroy in 1841 Martin Walsh in 1849 William Hubbard in 1853 Robert Bellin in 1858 A. MacLean in 1865 T. Wade in 1865 Thomas Fairbank in 1866 & 1872 Edward Hackett in 1867 Dennis Carroll in 1869 R.M. Carroll in 1871 & 1873 Sylvain Perry in 1875      Frances Gallant in 1894 Jeremiah Buote in 1905 John H. Bernard 1909 J Albert Brennen in 1912 Peter P. Cahill in 1916 Timothy P. Bernard in 1937 John Narcisse Richard in 1940 Kathleen C. Brennan in 1950 J. Hector Buote in 1951 William C. Glydon in 1975 Alice M. Christopher in 1998 Back to Community