James B., chief clerk in the railway mail service.in Vancouver, British Columbia; Helen, the wife of Hon. John S. McLeod, of Vancouver; Mabel,

the wife of W. F. Trent, who is also in the railway mail service at

Vancouver.1

The following excerpt from the Memoirs of J. MacGregor D. D; Shows

the condition of the area in 1799 in regards to a regular clergyman.

ADDRESS OF THE MINISTERS OF THE ASSOCIATE PRESBYTERY OF NOVA SCOTIA, TO THE GENERAL ASSOCIATE SYNOD. Dated Pictou, Feb. 5, 1799.

About seven years ago, the people of Princetown, and Stanhope, and St. Peter's in the island of St. John, applied to you for two ministers, and they have waited ever since with patience (or rather impatience), fre- quently inquiring if there was any hope of a speedy answer to their petitions. For a number of years, we returned for answer, that ministers might soon be expected; but we are ashamed to give them that answer any longer, and now we know not what to say. That people stand in need of the gospel almost as much as any people on the face of the earth; for beside all other considerations their being in an island prevents them from having so ready access to other means of knowledge as if they were of the continent; and theyuare surrounded with Papists, who have always one or more priests among them, who use all their dexterity in making converts, especially among the young generation. There are in the island of St. John, eight or ten other settlements

that would require supply of sermon, being yet so weak, that they cannot

support ministers for themselves.

1 Warburton and MacKinnon, Past and Present 9£_Exig§g_§dw§;d_lgland P. 317

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