So, with Dr. Wiggins at St. Eleanors, Mr. Fowle at Rustico, Mr. Read at Westmoreland Harbour (Crapaud) and James Pidgeon on the spot, the congregation was held together. When cholera touched the Mission in 1846 Mr. Pidgeon performed the follow— ing burials: Elizabeth Millman, Sept. 28; John Millman, Oct. 2; Ann Paynter, October 4; Isabella Profitt, Oct. 8; Sarah Profitt, Oct. 12.

Mr. Cavie Richardson, agent of the Colonial Church Society for the British North American colonies, had organized the P.E.I. Auxiliary in 1840. He came to the Island in 1847 and settled at Morell where he died, March 22, 1851. The C.C.S. had just joined forces with the Newfoundland School Society, and under the name of the Colonial Church and School Society (C.C. & S.S.) began a decade of intensive work. For Richardson’s successor a choice was made of a long time faithful worker in Newfoundland, the Reverend William Meek. The exact date of the arrival of Mr. Meek and his family on Prince Edward Island is not known but it was probably in the spring of 1852. One of the first records which he entered in the New London register is that of a baptism performed at Morell, November 14, 1852. The 1853 report of the Society stated that he had travelled all over the Island, presumably on foot for the most part as he had no horse or carriage, that he had preached twenty times in Charlottetown, and that he would be stationed at New London from which place he could itinerate to the Society’s schools. So began a new era in the slow, disappointing development of the New London Mission.

About a quarter century had passed since the opening of St. Thomas’s Church. Although progress was not marked in the local Anglican community, advance was being made in other parts of the Island. Port Hill Church, happily still standing, had been erected, and regular services begun. Here Sir George Seymour was the absentee proprietor, and he, along with James Yeo the shipbuilder, gave great assistance. At Westmoreland Harbour, now Crapaud, a church had been erected and a clergyman established. Here the proprietress was the Countess of Westmoreland, who had visited her property in person in 1840 and had supported general religious en- deavours. In Charlottetown a new church was opened in 1838 and the congregation had greatly increased. A church had been built at Murray Harbour with the assistance of the proprietor, Sir Samuel Cunard. Affairs were brighter at Georgetown and Cherry Valley where new churches had been built and clergy placed in charge. By 1838 a church had been built at Hooper’s (Milton) and another was built at Rustico shortly after with the aid of the proprietors, the Winsloe family. In addition the workers of the 0.0.8. and the CC. & 8.8. were active at Stanhope, Wiltshire, and other places. It is obvious that Church affairs were constantly supervised from Halifax. Bishop John Inglis had made seven journeys since his appointment, and scarcely a year passed without some diocesan representative crossing the Strait. The Bishop was able to come more frequently after his original great diocese had been reduced in size by the setting up of Newfoundland with Bermuda in 1839, and Fredericton in 1840. John Inglis, whose fostering care of the

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