SAMUEL, CUNARD
presumably between 1809 and 1813, the
master-carpenter went into partnership with
his clever, thrifty, well-educated eldest son,
who had already established a reputation
for reliability.- Th?el foundation of the
Cuniard fortunes is said to have been the
purchase of a prize, not a large vessel, but
a good bargain. The Halifax Weekly
Chronicle of July 2, 1813,? contains an
advertisement of a new firm, A. Cunard and
Son. They are agents for the ship White
Oak, loading for London. The names of
father and son also appear in the long list of
/ subscribers to the Royal Acadian Society;
they engage to pay a pound a piece, an-
upally, to support Bromley's new school.
Next year, the firm advertises the arrival of
a cargo of rum and sugar from the West
Indies. A very old Halifax lady remem-
bered "Sam" Cunard as a young man car-
rying his money in a stocking instead of the
long, netted purse of the period, and getting
up? in the morning, when the rest of I-alifax
was asleep, and buying to advantage