Society meeting appeared in the 19 March edition of the Royal Gazette. The notice ran thus:
HIGHLAND SOCIETY.
THE ANNUAL GENERAL, MEETING of the
Prince Edward Island Highland Society (in connec- tion with the Highland Society ofLondon,) will be held at the Commercial Hotel, on Thursday the 21st instant, (being the anniversary of the Battle of Alexandria) when the Election of Oflicers {or the ensuing twelve months will take place—end as several interesting communica- tions will be laid before the Meeting, a. punctual ettend~
nnce is requested. The Chair will be taken at Seven o’clock, p. 11:. By order ofthe President. W. CULLEN, Secretary.
March 18th, 1839.
The next two meetings — the first held on 1 July 1839, the second, on the 22 October — stressed the urgency of stirring the members from their lethargic state; injected them with guilt for the past neglect of the society’s aims; and pushed them to promises of renewed industry. The promises took the form of two sets of resolutions, one issued after each meeting (the second obviously necessitated by the ineffectiveness of the first).
As a result of the 1 July gathering, it was resolved by the society: to direct the Secretaries “to correspond with Scotchmen in all parts of the Island, and to request them to form Branch or Auxiliary Societies, in connection with this Society, so that the whole Island may enjoy the benefits to be derived from it”; to appoint a seven-man committee “for the purpose of imparting information to emigrants who may land upon our shores”; and, to revise and publish the Society’s constitution and rules for the use of both the distant members and the branch societies. The resolutions thus accepted, the members once again took on a now- accustomed, short-lived air of animation, evidenced in the meeting
report:
...from the eloquent and enthusiastic speeches that were delivered as the several Resolutions were proposed and passed, it may be gathered that the energies of this Society are no longer intended to be lying dormant, but that the Society
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