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beautiful must prospect to the aesthetic sense of the pioneers in the early October days of 1803‘. The beautiful pee ce- ful river, with. its blue waters and red banks; the broad expanse of bay stretching away in ever wid- ening shores to the well wooded \Boughton and Panmure Islands, ,_ and about and around them every- where the deep, .d-ar'k forests. lighted up here and there with the red. and yellow of the changing foliage of the early autumn.

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There is very little record of the history of the passage of the pioneers from Scotland to this .country. The following receipt is the only writing that can be found that gives any information on the subject : ..

Port Glasgow, July 9th, .1803. Mr. Donald Gordon:—

have received from . you twenty- nine pounds and eight shillings sterling, as payment of the passage of six persons by the Commerce, Capt. Walt, for Pictou in. Nova Scotia, in North America. Youn- obedien-t servant, GEORGE GONDIE.

These six persons were. probably grandfather Donald Gordon, his Wife and four children. James Mc- Lare-n and his six children came over in the ship at the same time. They must have left Glasgow very

human ,

homing across from Pictou, _ encountered a storm and the ves-

' old trees, the growth of hundreds

clear their farms, and prepare the ‘_ From this cause my grandmother

courage, energy and endurance to, the cause of her death in the fol- . lowing January. three months after LANDING OF THE PIONEERS jtheir arrival here. She Was prob- :abe the first per-sOn to be buried .

Sim—El hereby aCR‘nowl-edge to,

soon after July '94:.h. There is . no record of the time of their arrival: in Pictou. Probably it was about; the middle of September. (me bun-m dired years ago it was a great, undertaking to cross the ocean. It required many weeks and some-

times months to make the passage.

There were no- fast: ocean, grey— hounds at the time _,.to make the voyage in less than six days. From P'i'ctou they took passage in a. small unseaworthy vessel call-- ed the Arrow, for Brudenell, and arrived here early in October. In: they

sell sprung a leak of, so severe a character that 'it required the ut-

.m-o-st‘ efforts of the passengers and crew working at the pump to keep»

the boat from sinking. When the- men were exhausted the women- 'ook their places at the pump»

took ajsevere cold, firom which she never recovered, and which was

in, this little island. In sailing up the river after the storm in that bright October day.

Grandmother Gordon was im- pressed with the loveliness of the little island and remarked that

Awhen she came to die, would like

to be buried there. Much too soon

her wish was fulfilled. They built

a cabin of logs somewhere in front of the present fine residence of Walter Gordon near the river. James Mohamen afterwards settled on what is known as the -John- son place, a little- to the eastward. Donald Gordon remained at the old place. There they protected themselves as best they could against the frost and snow of the Island. Winter. They brought with them from Scotland their spin- ning wheels, Iooms,’ household utensils, furniture and farming implements. and for many years did their own carding, spinning.