eRUOENELIi PTO'NEERB shelter; no friendly hand to wel?? come, them; no kindly human voice to give them greetings. Very beautiful must have been the prdispeet to the aesthetic sense of the pioneers in the early October days of 18Q31. The beautiful peace?? ful river, with its blue waters and red banks; the broad expanse of t>ay stretching away in ever wid?? ening shores to the well wooded Bough ton and , and about and around them every?? where the deep, dark forestSr lighted up here and there with trie red and yellow of the changing foliage of the early autumn. But the pioneers had more ard?? uous work before them than ob?? serving the beauties of nature. They had to cut down these fine old trees, the growth of hundreds of years, to buMd their cabins, to clear their farms, and prepare the ground for seed time in the com?? ing spring, work that required courage, energy and endurance to contemplate and to perform. LANDING OP THE PIONEERiS 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 :-??? Sir;???! hereby acknowledge to 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 . Your obedient servant, GEORGE GONDIE. These six persons were probably grandfather Donald Gordon , his wife and four children. James Mc ?? Laren and his six children came over in the ship at the some time. They must have left Glasgow very soon after July 9th. There is no record of the time of their arrival in Pictou. Probably it was about the middle of September. One hun?? dred 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 Pi'ctou they took passage in (a. small unseaworthy vessel call?? ed the Arrow, for Brudenell , and arrived here early in October. In : coming: across from Pictou, they encountered a storm and the ves?? sel sprung a leak of so severe a character that it required the ut?? most efforts of the passengers and crew working at the pump to keep the boat from sinking. When the men were exhausted the women -took their places at the pump^ From this cause my grandmother took a severe cold, from which she never recovered, and which was the cause of her death in the fol?? lowing- January, three months after their arrival here. She was prob?? ably the first person to be buried 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 when she came to di*e, 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 McLaren 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, looms, household utensHs, furniture and farming implements, ??a.nd for many years did their own carding, spinning,