Transportation: Since the beginning of settlement four hundred years ago we have depended upon the sea for transport. Rev. Allan Massie Hill, an early historian, tells us that the first horse in the county was the survivor of a shipwreck off Centreville in circa 1800. We have to assume that shanks pony was the main mode of land transport before that time.Oxen were once commonly used to move goods and people. When the ferry arrived from Saint John smaller vessels would carry people and freight down Digby Neck and stagecoaches travelled wherever roads existed. The arrival of the train widened people's horizons and the whole province was suddenly within everyone's reach. The first automobile appeared in Digby in 1906, or 1910 and transport was never the same from that time onwards.