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built in 1829, Was the site of his following in the east part of the Island. "One of the areas Where the revival has its greatest impact was in the Orwell-Murray Harbour Road area about twenty miles east of Charlottetown, which later became the center of MacDonald's parish on that side of the Hillsborough River".

(David Ewale, ISland Magazine #3, 1977)., His impact on the lives and hearts of many people of the area was large. Ewen Lamont, of Orwell, was one of several who, resulting from the fervour roused,

wrote hymns used in the MacDonaldite church.

The house of Nicholson, the miller, was an hosPitable one, and often welcomed George Munro Grant, still revered at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, as its founding principal. At ’this time, Grant was a missionary in Alberry Plains and other

districts near Orwell. (MacQueen)

Malcolm MacQueen, an historian of the early Scottish settle- ment of P.E.I., author of sgye Pioneer and Hebridean Settlers documenting the people of the area and their way of life, was

born in Orwell in the Uigg road.

AndravMacPhail was born in 186h in Orwell, on the farm once

belonging to John Fletcher, the son of William MacPhail, a

MacDonaldite farmer, and teacher. He later became professor of medicine at MacGill University in Montreal, and an intellectual leader. His brother Alexander was a professor of Engineering at Queen's. Sir Andrew's book The Master's Wife, describes life in Orwell in the late 19th century and the values he felt underlined

it. This social structure is the basis for MacPhail's social