More and more tourists are travelling on Route 7 along the Eastern Shore from Halifax to Cape Breton, and passing through the charming village of Sherbrooke before proceeding up the beautiful valley of the St. Mary's River, Stillwater, Melrose and Lochaber, to Antigonish. Although the timber rafts and logs have vanished, the sportsman's paradise mentioned by Joseph Howe remains, and there are summer places and fishing camps along the river.(147) The Marine Motel at Sherbrooke came into operation in 1959.(148)
St. Mary's Memorial Hospital was incorporated in 1946 with Gordon L. Silver, MD CM, Carmen W. Marshall, A Grant MacDonald, J. Edwin Fraser, Matthew M. Manson, D. Samuel Archibald, Arthur S. Kaiser, Howard S. Turner, Robert F. MacNaughton, Lowell Spears and A. W. Cameron as trustees.(149)
Sherbrooke is still an administrative and shopping centre for St. Mary's Municipality, and the consolidated high school, opened in 1953, has made it an educational centre.