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4 BRU‘LDENEIL PIONEER/S

ment which was folds of the Union Jack suspended from the liberty pole alongSIde

Mr Walter F Gordon, chairman of the committee preSided

The addresses of which the pro- gram consisted in the main were eloquent, interesting, inspiring and instructive, giVing a complete re- cord of the ﬂamily history and abounding in worthy sentiments fittingly expressed

Mr Duncan Macd-onald of St Peters Road the piper for the occasion rendered selection-s *hat appealed to Scottish hearts.

The Singing of the D'oxology, was the opening number

This was fo-llowed by an address by Nathaniel McLaren, Esq, of Montague Bridge Secretary Treas- urer of the Committee, and "reat- grandson of James McLaren leader of the pioneers

ADDRESS BY NATHANIEL MAC‘LLAREN

The place whereon we stand th 5 day should be to us sacred ground containing as It does the moi tal remains of our ancestors, the heroic men and women who leav- ing the comforts and certainties of their nat1ce land behind Jhem braved the dangers of a tempest- uous sea and the uncertainties of an unknown and unhospitable shore With the noble purpose in View of provrding for themselves a home and a country in which they could enioy the privﬂeges of freedom and independence—a land Whl‘Ch they could call their own and transmit it to their descend— ants as an heirloom forever

One hundred years ago a little bond of Scottish emigrants con- Sisting of Jas McLaren who-.may be termed the leader of the band his Wife Isabel McDonald

draped, in the sons landed at

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(Brudenell River, which was at that time an un- broken Wilderness and at once be- gan that stern struggle for ex- istence which IS the inevitable experience of all settlers in a new and untried country.

,Strong in their faith in the God of their fathers, almost the first came of the little community was the erection of a place of worship upon the spot whereon we are now assembled Rude and primitive the building must have been, con- structed as it was of the rough h-ewn trees of the forest, but dur- ing his life as often as the day of rest returned m that little church James McLaren read the inspired volume and the Gaelic "version of the serwce of the Episcopal church of which he was an adherent, to the few scattered settlers of the neighbouring districts, who made their way some by the blazed trails of the forest others by birch canoe and dug out on the waters of the Three Rivers to that lowly struc- ture there to offer to the Supreme Being the worship of humble, con—‘ trite and honest hearts". And who shall say that the worship thus humbly given was not received at the throne of the Eternal with as much acceptance as though offer- ed in the most elaborate structure raised by the hand of man, ac- companied by all the ceremonial splendor that learning could teach and wealth could! afford. It is claimed by some of the descend- ants of the pioneers that the late Bishop McEachern, a man respect- ed and revered by all who had the privilege of his acquaintance, irrespective of creed or nation- ality, once administered! the ordi- nance of baptism within the walls of this primitrve edifice.

Death v1s1ted the new settle—

and ment early in its history in 1804:.

their family, numbering four sens A few months after their landing

and +hree daue‘hters With two sons-

in-law James :Stewart and Domld ald Gordon passed

Gordon and their families, mak-

Christma McLzaren. Wife of Don- to the great

beyond, and was laid to her rest

mg in all some twenty-two per~ on this little island, being the first