JJO PAST AND PRESENT OF they were not so expensive as the Burns' concerts of the present day. An illuminated chart descriptive of the coat of arms and tartans of the different Scottish clans was presented to the club by Sir Louis H. Davies in 1890. In the fol¬ lowing year a congratulatory address was presented to the chief of the club on his ap¬ pointment as a member of the Senate, and another address, but one of condolence, was forwarded to Lady McDonald , expressing the sympathy of the club in her grief and sorrow on the death of her husband, the late Sir John A. McDonald . In August, the an¬ nual games took place at Summerside . It was the first occasion on which they were held beyond the suburbs of Charlottetown . In recognition of his valuable services in preserving the Gaelic language and litera¬ ture, the club contributed towards the publi¬ cation of a volume of Gaelic poems pub¬ lished by the Rev. Mr. McLean Sinclair . In connection with the field sports of 1892, there was erected on the grounds on which the games took place a memorial pio¬ neer hut, in commemoration of the Scottish pioneers. This hut was constructed of unhewn logs. These extracts from the circular of the committee having this in charge will ex¬ plain this commemorative feature of the games. "For this purpose a log hut repre¬ senting the hut of the pioneer will be erected on the gathering grounds and equipped in primitive style, with its clay-built chimney, moss-stogged walls, thatched roof, old-time window; also its sleeping apartments, furni¬ ture, kitchen utensils and other articles of use in those days of pioneer life, such as the hand cards, spinning wheel, distaff, spindle, reel, winder, quern, the husking block, to¬ bacco pouch, handsieve, winnowing fan, lamp; also specimens of the farm imple¬ ments with which our fathers and grandfa¬ thers felled the dense forest and tilled the virgin soil of this, our native Isle of the Sea, such as the axe, the wooden harrow, the crooked spade (an implement of tillage of great antiquity, peculiar to the Highlands), the basket or hamper for carrying burdens, and the smaller basket, the flail, the reaping hook, the drinking shell, the dug-out canoe, rowboat, paddles, oars, etc., old time pieces, ancient relics, such as snuff-boxes, silver, horn and wooden spoons, old books in Gaelic or English, day books or ledgers, copy books, school books, manuscripts, drawings, paintings, pictures, sketches, and whatever is original, quaint, novel or inter¬ esting because of its antiquity, illustrative of past Scottish customs and usages." In August, 1894, Lord Aberdeen , gover¬ nor general, and Lady Aberdeen visited the Island and were entertained by the Cale¬ donian Club at the field sports which were held that year at Georgetown . An address was also presented to their Excellencies. In replying to the address presented by the club, His Excellency expressed in warm terms his appreciation of the address and of the enthusiastic and cordial welcome ex¬ tended to him and Lady Aberdeen . The record of this day in the minutes of the club has the following: "Their Excellencies were again greeted on the conclusion of his address. The games were then begun and after they had remained for a short time witnessing them they were conducted to the court-house, where they partook of the lunch prepared by the club, and afterwards re¬ turned to the field before going to their train, in which they returned to the city, ac¬ companied by the cheers of the multitude waiting at the Georgetown station to see them off."