PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 7o attending their efforts. A thanksgiving service was held on the place where the pas¬ sengers landed from the Polly. The Do¬ minion flag flew over those who took part in these preparatory services held previously to the foregoing gathering. Rev. McL . Sinclair, the Presbyterian minister of Bel¬ fast, presided. Descendants of the Polly men sang a psalm in Gaelic. The chairman read the 107th psalm and offered prayer, thanking Providence for His goodness to the early settlers and to their descendants. Mr. Donald - McLeod gave an address in Gaelic on The Polly and the Emigrants. A song composed on the "Coming of the Polly" by Malcolm Ban Buchanan was sung. Mr. D- A. McLeod made a brief address in English. Rev. Mr. Spurr concluded with a prayer of thanksgiving. On Sunday Rev. McL . Sinclair preached an appropriate, forceful and eloquent sermon from Psalm CXX, "The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad." Highlanders also settled at Tracadie about 1803, and Scotch settlers some years earlier settled in New London and later at Strath- albyn, West River and . Irish settlers at Monaghan and Newton. Loy¬ alists in Pownal and Vernon River , and English in Little York , Winsloe, Suffolk and Covehead . Now the population is native born almost altogether, and although each nationality takes pride in its parent state and celebrates its greatest occasions, still almost all are Prince Edward Islanders by birth, excepting those under thirty-three years of age, who are Canadians by birth. Forty-three thousand one hundred and thirty-four people, almost all of Island birth, live in the county, being only about five thousand five hundred more than fifty years ago, and this number has been attracted to the city. These people have seven thou¬ sand eight hundred and twenty-seven dwell¬ ing houses, twelve thousand seven hundred are married men and women, over thirty thousand are single, six hundred and fifty- nine are widowers and one thousand five hundred and sixty-nine widows. Natural increase has been large, but being of an adventurous nature thousands, retain¬ ing enough of the restless spiritwhich induced their fathers to cross the , have gone to the different parts of the world and made homes for themselves. Eighteen thousand two hundred and thirty-one are of Scotch origin, ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight of English, ten thousand two hundred and seventy-seven Irish, two thou¬ sand seven hundred and ninety-eight French and a few hundred of German and other nationalities. There are seven thousand nine hundred and forty-nine families. The chief thing about a people is its relifion., Christianity is the faith. There are fifteen thousand Presbyterians and fifteen thousand; Roman Catholics , about seven thousand Methodists, three thousand Anglicans and two thousand five hundred Baptists. A few other branches of the Christian church are represented, including the Salvation Army, which is alleviating the overflow in the horhe land by bringing immigrants here. It is remarkable that in the past half cen¬ tury only two thousand one hundred and ten immigrants came to the Island, four hun¬ dred and sixty-two being from Newfound¬ land, seven hundred and sixty-four from the United States and the rest chiefly from the British Isles. Ninety-nine thousand and six of our one hundred and three thousand two hundred and fifty-nine people were born on this Island. It would not be surprising to see thousands of immigrants flock here during