246 A Bridge To The Past 
     
    
   
   
    
     McEWEN 
     
    
   
   
    
     Walter A. McEwen (1940- ) is the son of Francis (Ted) McEwen 
     
     and Mary (Burke) McEwen of Montague. He married, in September, 1965 
     
     in Toronto, Myrna Nicholson (1942- ), daughter of Malcolm Nicholson 
     
     and Sally (Arsenault) Nicholson of Charlottetown. Walter went to St. 
     
     Dunstan’s University. He later attended Dalhousie University, and 
     
     graduated as a lawyer in 1971. From here he went to Ontario and joined the 
     
     Bar, returning to P.E.I. in 1973. Myrna graduated from the Charlottetown 
     
     Hospital School of Nursing in 1964. In June of 1976, Walter bought seven 
     
     acres of land from Ralph Hogg, on the south side of the Taylor Road, and 
     
     built a new home during the summer of 1977. This attractive Cape Cod 
     
     home, bordered by its sheltering grove of trees seems, even when surround- 
     
     ed by snow-covered lawns, to hail the passerby with warmth and 
     
     friendliness, almost tempting him to come in and make himself at home. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Walter and Myrna have three sons: Michael Scott (1966), Timothy 
     
     Shawn (1967) and James Walter (1975). 
     
    
   
   
    
     Continuing along the road we come to Valley View Farm, the home of 
     
     Alder Large. This property, as well as all the land along the Taylor Road, 
     
     was originally owned by William Schurman. The first person to live here 
     
     was Jonathan Hall. 
     
    
   
   
    
     HALL 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jonathan Hall (1805-1886) purchased this property from one of the 
     
     Schurmans. Jonathan was the son of Samuel Hall (1762-1861), who 
     
     emigrated from England. Jonathan married Jennie (Jane) Ramsay (1818- 
     
     1887) in 1835. Jennie was a daughter of the shipbuilder, John Ramsay. 
     
     Jonathan and Jennie farmed, ran a machine shop and raised a family of 
     
     eight children. Jennie was a member of the Church of Scotland and is 
     
     buried in the Wilmot Valley Cemetery. Jonathan, a Methodist, is buried in 
     
     Crapaud. Their children were: 
     
    
   
   
    
     Thomas (1839-1919) married Catherine MacRae (1848-1898). Their children 
     
    
   
   
    
     were Hugh, Mary Ellen, William, Harold, Susan and Sarah. Thomas 
     
     was the founder of Hall Manufacturing Co. of Summerside. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Ellen married George Baxter. 
     
    

    
     John married Anne H. 
     
    

    
     Major moved to USA. 
     
    

    
     Sarah married Joseph Rogers of Bedeque. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mary married Sandy MacRae. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Brewer married Lillian Howatt. 
     
     Susan married Fenwick Lefurgey. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jonathan sold his property to Alexander and Janet Miller.