PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 145 foregoing facts relative to the Doctors Mac - donald as medical pioneers in this Island province. Dr. Benjamin de St Croix came to Charlottetown in the early part of the nine¬ teenth centuryt and died on the ioth of Sep¬ tember, 1848. He was commissioned to be surgeon general and medical 'superintend¬ ent to the militia forces of Prince Edward Island on the first day of November, 1812, in the fifty-third year of His Majesty's reign. The commission was signed by Thomas DesBrisay , Esq., secretary, and William Townsend , Esq.,- president and commander-in-chief in and over His Maj¬ esty's Island Prince Edward , and the terri¬ tories adjacent thereto. He held his di¬ ploma from the Royal College of Surgeons, London, 1801. He was an Englishman with a French name; probably a descendant of one of the numerous French families that came over to England after revocation of edict of Nantes. He practiced for many years in and around Charlottetown , and was a maternal granduncle of the Hon . Fred¬ erick de St. Croix Brecken, late postmaster and assistant postoffice inspector at Char¬ lottetown. John Mackieson was born in the parish of Campsie, in Stirlingshire, Scotland , on October 16, 1795. He received and pos¬ sessed a good English and classical educa¬ tion and graduated from the Medical and Surgical Pharmacy, at Glasgow, when he received his diploma November 15, 1815. He then removed to Liverpool, England , where he met the late John McGregor , whose interest in Prince Edward Island in¬ duced Doctor Mackieson to come out to Charlottetown . He left Liverpool, Eng¬ land, October 10, 1821, and took passage in the brig "Relief," Captain Dodd , with 10 several other passengers, namely: Capt James M . Campbell, of Bedeque . He arrived at Sims Hotel, Charlottetown , November 15, 1821. He married Matilda Brecken , youngest daughter of the late Hon . Ralph Brecken , a merchant, and they had a fam¬ ily of six children, two of whom died in in¬ fancy. The eldest son is now a medical doctor in Australia, and his home and sur¬ gery is still occupied by his only surviving daughter. Doctor Mackieson 's professional career may be said to have commenced on his arrival in this country and ended with his demise on the 27th of August, 1885. His wife predeceased him on the 22d of May, 1877. He held several positions of trust and honour, was an active member and sup¬ porter of St. James' Kirk Presbyterian, and an elder for nearly sixty years. He was ap¬ pointed surgeon general of the militia forces on December 8, 1848, vice St. Croix deceased. He was health officer for the port of Charlottetown from the 16th of May, 1833. He was appointed superin¬ tendent of the Lunatic Asylum on April _> 1. 1846, and medical attendant of Queens county jail on May 14, 1863. His itinerant practice was extensive throughout the Is¬ land. At one time while visiting patients at or near Bayview , this county, he in¬ formed the writer that he had contracted typhoid fever and that his system had been severely tried; but notwithstanding, he reached the advanced age of ninety years. Dr. Angus McAuley , who came out in the ship "Polly" on the ioth of August, 1803, settled at Pinette , in Queens county, and sat for many years in the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island . He was elected speaker on Tuesday, July 25, 1820, and was continuously speaker up to the 14th of January, 1825, when he was su-