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The Highland‘ immigration to Prince Edward Island takes us back to the year 1746, when on the fatal ﬁeld of Culloden, Charles Edward Stuart, the young Pretender, saw his ‘hopes of gaining the Eng- lish Throne shattered and lost forever. IThe years, that followed were crucial times for the Catholic Church in Scotland. The Highlanders, Ihaving eag- erly espoused the cause of the ill-fated Prince, were narked out asobjects of special hatred on the part of the House of Hanover, and for years‘ priests and people were persecuted, imprisoned and tortured without mercy. Things continued in this unsatis - factory condition until the year 1770, wlhen the Iiaird of Boisdale made a last effort to bring about the perversion of his tenant-s. He notiﬁed them all to meet in a certain place, as he had something of importance to communicate to them. They imme- diately obeyed the command. Some went in great glee, hoping that having grown weary of persecution,

lriﬁce, succeeded in devising means of emigration.

preparation wentgsteadily forward till, aIbout the lst

of May, 1772, twohundred and ten emigrants board-

edtlhe good Ship Alexander, ready to setsail for the I New World. two months, during which no casualty worth wlhile occurred, the Alexander dropped ilanichor in Char- lottetown Harbor on a beautiful morning towards the end of June. he ivas now going to inaugurate a policy of justiceiing which the emigrants contemplated with pleasure and fair play; but the older andwiser heads shared the outlines of the beautiful country henceforth to

This worthy man, who seems to have ‘been the heart and soul of the movement, mortgaged hisproperty in Scotland in order to raise ‘the money to aid the needy emigrants, and to purchase anestate in St, John's Island upon which they might settle. A-t the same tim-e, through t-he kind intervention of Bishop Hay, in Scotland, and Bishop Challoner, in Lon-don, private subscriptionswere set on foot, and soon a considerable sum wlas raised to forward the project. Thus, amid alternate joy and sorrow, the workof

-A.fter a prosperous voyage of about

Here a short delay was made dur-

not in these sentiments and repaired ‘Vith gravelbe their home; then, having again weighed anchor,

forebodings to the place of meeting.

proved that the latter were right. No sooner hadt

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' lc-iution of the Catholic faith and a sworn promise tol their earthly possessions "at a place contiguous to the l avoid all intercourse with Catholic priests, was pro- site of the old church of St. Louis, to which place f xluced and read to them; and they were told to sign, they gave the name of Scotch Fort; this document under the pain of "being ‘deprived, oflof Whom one hundred came from Uist Island, and rheir lands and drivenfrom their ‘homes- Cruel al- the remainder from, the mainland of 3609181111. Were

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hey proceeded on their wray up the East River, till hey reached the lands purchased tlhe preceding year

Here-they landed with all

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THE MEMORIAL AND SOME OF THOSE ASSOCIATED WITH lT

MR. D. B. MacDONALD. North Bedeq . President of the Celebrallron Committee

ternative! On the other hand, they are asked to‘ v» renounce their religion, to prove recreant to the solemn promises they had made in baptism, t0 turn their backs forever on the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ that so often nourished their souls in Holy Communion; whilst on the other hand, ‘poverty in its direst forms, hunger, destitution-evils ‘wlhichl appeal so strongly to the sensibilities of ﬂesh and blood-savers held up to their contemplation. With courage worthy of the early martyrs, every man steadfastly refused to sign. Poverty, with all its attending misery, exile with its ﬂood of bitter re- collection, death even, with all its concomitant hor- rors, might a thousand times stare them in the face

but no power ever given to man can rob them‘ of the priceless gift of faith. Hen-ce they rejected with

mostly Macdonalds. Among them, lhowever, could be found a goodly sprinkling of Mackinnons, Mac- phees, Macraes, Gillises, Maceacherns, Mackenzies, Macintoshes, and others, whose descendants consti- tute the Scotch Catholic population of Prince Edward Island at the present day. ~

The arrival of the Highlanders was a source of joy to the Acadian settlers. They were naturally pleas- ed to see the Catholic population assume greater proportions; but more especially did they rejoice, that with the Highlanders, there had come what they had so long and so earnestly desired, a priest, the Reverend James Macdonald, who in the prime 1*"'d,V_1E°_‘1' 0f hiiﬂlflanllolld, hadsevered‘ the ties that _ _ bound him to his Fatherland, rather than see ‘his disdain the landlords hard-hearted proposal, retir- People dePlflved 0f splritlml WW0!‘ in the land of ed to their homes, and forthwith made up their the“ adaptlon‘,

minds to‘ emigrate to Americ . This remarkable man, the ﬁrst English-speaking

But “here ﬁnd means to defray the expenses of priest who labored on tlhis Island, though now almost . such a long voyage? They were an p00“ Years forgotten, is nevertheless worthy of having his name of ‘high rent an-dunrequited lalbor had brought them ensllmled H.‘ the memory of an» Wlho 1W9 Virtue 01‘ to ihe verge of destitution. To ﬁnd the money they "dmlre Sacriﬁce‘ l

needed, therefore l; d ' - _, - " ' A . . I ties almost IHSUTHlOE-liiisllllxllﬂ? aCﬁﬁhqoellc ofaigllimfilillilqixlzlgmegr; e was ctonffque-rltly m h“ thins“ Catlliolic charity, however, were equal to the emerg- ‘teemyshars of age ellialiggﬂ zentnlaedltflaileScyiirtlsegorllln?

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