1. Alexander Bruce born Scotland, died Scotland, interred at Scotland. 
     
     The name of George's father came from the sketch of Alexander William Bruce which may be found on page 
     
     445 in the publication The Past and Present of Prince Edward Island, published in 1905 by A. Bannerman 
     
     Warburton and Donald A. MacKinnon. It states "The paternal grandfather, Alex Bruce, was born in Scotland, and 
     
     there lived and died.” 
     
     Children: 
     
     2. | George Bruce born ca. 1802. 
     
     ii son Bruce 
     
    
   
   
    
     Second Generation 
     
    
   
   
    
     2. George Bruce born ca. 1802, County Caithness Scotland, resided in Red Point PEI, 
     
     occupation: Farmer, married March 30, 1841, at Prince Edward Island, by Alexander 
     
     Leslie J.P., Catherine (Kitty) Robertson, born ca. 1815, West River (now known as 
     
     Kingsboro) Prince Edward Island, (daughter of Alexander Robertson and Catherine 
     
     MacDougald) resided in Red Point PEI, died March 28, 1889, Red Point Prince Edward 
     
     Island, interred at Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church 
     
     Cemetery. George died February 3 1888, Red Point Prince Edward Island, interred at 
     
     Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church Cemetery. He came to 
     
     Prince Edward Island ca. 1840 and settled in what is now known in Red Point. Catherine — 
     
     died at Jessie's home. 
     
    

    
     To our knowledge George Bruce immigrated from County Caithness in Scotland, 
     
     with his brother whose name is unknown, in 1840. If one reads the History of the East 
     
     Point United Baptist Church, he possibly could have come to Prince Edward Island from 
     
     Nova Scotia and not directly to Prince Edward Island from Scotland. For this era 
     
     passenger lists are sketchy, unreliable or simply not available. Archival research could not 
     
     find the surname Bruce in manifests arriving in Prince Edward Island or Nova Scotia for 
     
     that or preceding years. 
     
    

    
     Shortly after arriving in the Red Point area, he met and married Catherine 
     
     Robertson, the nuptials being witnessed by James Robertson and John Knight (who is 
     
     known today as the founder of Souris). The story has been passed down over the years 
     
     the brothers did not like the life here on Prince Edward Island, and decided to leave for 
     
     Nova Scotia when the Robertson dog followed George and _ his brother. George returned 
     
     with the dog, met Kitty Robertson, and decided to stay and married her. One would think 
     
     if they had stayed at Robertson's, in the small confines of homes of that era, they would 
     
     have certainly met the daughter, earlier. Itis a romantic story of which there is no proof. 
     
    

    
     George and Catherine took over a section of land approximately 200 acres in size on 
     
     what was called the Snake Road, Red Point North in Lot 46. Meecham's 1880 Atlas 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ " . | The George Bruce Stone 
     
     bears this out. They built their home on the south side of the present road where the Ray East Point Baptist Cemetery 
     
     Bruce and Harry Bruce farms intersect. The old kitchen was still standing in 1960. Harry Kingsboro 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bruce was using it as a machine house. Unfortunately it has been torn down and there 
     
     are no known photographs. The original well that they used for water used to cave in every few years. When the road was 
     
     widened a few years ago, it was permanently filled in. There will be more about the well in the section on Jim Bruce. 
     
    

    
     In the early years as the land was cleared, they planted grain, wheat, potatoes, etc. The potatoes would be hoed into 
     
     small hills, and in the fall dug out by hand, and put into their house cellar. In later years. the potatoes would be ploughed in 
     
     the spring, and ploughed out in the fall, picked by hand, and put in horse drawn carts and dumped in the cellar. They 
     
     would use reaping hooks to harvest the grain. A flail would be used to thrash the grain. Flax was later planted. It could be 
     
     spun and woven into clothing as well as other uses. 
     
    

    
     In the 1840's, the Scott's owned a grist mill in Kingsboro. The grain and wheat would be made into coarse oatmeal, 
     
     dark flour, bran etc. Saw mills were a boon to the people for building. Originally, the beams, boards and shingles were 
     
     hewn with a broad axe. An excellent example of rough sawn hand planed boards can be found in the upstairs bedroom 
     
     ceilings in the home now owned by Merton Bruce. This house is approximately 125 years old. 
     
    

    
     George divided his land into three farms in the mid 1870's, giving one to each of his three older sons; Jack, Jim and 
     
    

    
     Alex. He lived his last years on the "Alec" farm property. When his youngest son Dave married, he acquired a 100 acre 
     
     property for him in East Baltic. Much progress had been made in the nearly 40 years that George and Catherine farmed the 
     
     land. 
     
    

    
     Children: 
     
     A-1. Jessie (Jinnie) Bruce born 1841, Red Point Prince Edward Island, married Alexander MacLean, born 
     
     1829, (son of Alexander MacLean and Janet (also Jannett or Jessie) Kennedy) died 1921, interred at 
     
     Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church Cemetery. Jessie died 1917, interred 
     
     at Kingsboro Prince Edward Island, in the East Point Baptist Church Cemetery. 
     
    
   
   
    
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