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
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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
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