proprietor of One-half of Lot 18. Together, these two men arranged dis- 
     
     patches of over 200 families, many from Argyllshire. Stewart’s Prince- 
     
     town area settlement increased rapidly —— to such an extent that, by 1775, 
     
     it was second in size only to that of the MacDonalds in Tracadie. '9 
     
    

    
     During the next three decades, many more areas on the Island were 
     
     taken up by Scots. Most arrived in smaller groups than the two 
     
     aforementioned; many were brought over by proprietor Robert Clark. 
     
     Clark and Robert Campbell brought in approximately two hundred 
     
     Lowlanders to their lot — 21 — in the New London area.20 In 1775, a 
     
     small number of Clark’s emigrants, including the newly-appointed Chief 
     
     Justice Peter Stewart, his wife, and ten children, arrived safely in 
     
     Charlottetown after the wreck of their ship off the Island’s north shore. 
     
     In 1790, a large party from the Western Isles arrived at Scotchfort. 
     
     Among them was the Reverend Angus Bernard MacEachern, later 
     
     Charlottetown’s first bishop and founder of both the Island’s first 
     
     British Catholic church, built at St. Andrew, and its first college, St. 
     
     Andrew’s College, built outside Charlottetown.“ 
     
    
   
   
    
     By the end of the eighteenth century, large-scale sheep farming had 
     
     taken over the tenants’ lands in the Highland countryside. English 
     
     speculators realized the Highland soil was most profitably employed in 
     
     rearing sheep22 and knew the profits to be gained from a wool industry. 
     
     They offered the chiefs great rents for the lands and set the pattern for 
     
     the beginnings of the Highland Clearances. 
     
    

    
     The rate at which the Highland tenants were dispossessed was 
     
     phenomenal — often as many as thirty or forty families at a time.“ In 
     
     some areas, the numbers were much higher. According to Bishop 
     
     Macdonnell, a priest in Lochaber during the last part of the eighteenth 
     
     century: 
     
    
   
   
    
     ...it was not uncommon to see from one to two hundred 
     
     families evicted, and the farms which they had occupied 
     
     converted into a sheepwalk for the accommodation of some 
     
     south-country shepherd, or, as it was termed in the country, 
     
     one hundred and fifty or two hundred smokes went through 
     
     one chimney." 
     
    
   
   
    
     In 1803, a contingent of over 800 Highlanders came to live in Prince 
     
     Edward Island — the first major collection of exiles of the Clearances to 
     
     arrive in this colony. These “Skye Pioneers” — “a race of men and 
     
     women of unconquerable will and indomitable spirit”” — were the