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there was no loss of life in the incident.61 The rock was

known afterwards as the St. Domingo rock and it was located

below Beaton's.b2

The passengers had the names of Harris, Pierce, Price, Campion, Hughes, Drummond and Tierney. All were married and had families of one or two, aged from one to three. Most of them remained and settled in Eastern Prince Edward Island especially Portage (now known as Elmira).63 Some Scottish Peo- ple considered this a disaster — not because the ship was lost 33: but that the people remained in the areal In the 1861 census we find the names of Johonnah Hughes, John Pierce, James Harris, Moses Harris, Peter Price and others.64 The last two survivors of the wreck were Mr. and Hrs. Moses Harris. Mrs. Harris died on August 25, 1886 at the age of 104 years. At her death, a newspaper stated:

She was the last survivor of the immigrants

who landed from the ship St. Domingo, wrecked

on Beaton's Point in 1822. Hrs. Harris Was

carried ashore by parties who have long since passed away.65

" In 1824, the brigantine, True Friend, with Samuel

Walker as master, sailed from Quebec bound for Halifax but was wrecked on the East Point Reef on September 25th in a violent northeast gale. The passengers and crew were able to get as—

. (fin) 07(3) hore with great difficulty:66 4

On April 19, 1828, the St. Ann of Quebec was stuck in ice off East Point. On April 20th, three MacDonalds succ—