A History of Canoe Cove THE MACRAES. Farquhar and his wife Margaret came from Kintail, Scotland in 1834, Margaret was a MacRae from Glenelg. They had several children before coming to P.E.I , one of whom was Finlay. While Farquhar was waiting for his house to be built in Bonshaw they stayed with the Stewarts at Strathgartney . They probably bought their land from the Stewarts. When Finlay grew up he bought a farm in the Cove from Coun MacKinnon and lived in a log house until the lovely old MacRae homestead was built. Like many other Scots settlers Finlay was an Elder in the church and could pray in both Gaelic and English. Finlay married Anne MacNevin , daughter of Roderick and raised a large family who were: Roderick, the oldest inherited the family farm, married Flora Ann Campbell , daughter of Neil Campbell of Argyle Shore , and had a family of four girls: Flora married Francis MacDougall , and they went to live in the Farquhar MacRae house. After Roderick died they farmed the family farm. Helen, a school teacher married Fred Hickox from Bonshaw . They farmed for a few years at Bridge then moved to Parkdale where they still live. Their family is Roderick, Freddie, Faye MacKinnon, Anne, Ronald, Donald and Cynthia. Donald owns the MacRae homestead. Annie (Bee) stayed at home to care for her parents and Mary, a hairdresser, lived most of the time in town. Kenneth married Florence Rogerson and moved to the Rogerson home. Kenneth and Florence had a large family and as so often happened in those days Florence died when the children were young. Their family was: Annie, who when a child, apparently hurt her leg which got infected and was subsequently