Prizes for dancing Gillie Callum or Sword Dance, Highland

Fling, Reel of Tulloch and other Caledonian Dances. Prizes for Putting the Stone, Throwing the Hammer, Tossing

the Caber, Leaping, Running, Foot and Hurdle Races, Sack Races, and other Scottish Games.

A prize will be awarded to the wearer of the best Highland Costume — P.E.Island manufacture Tartan to be preferred.2

The adoption of a formal constitution served as acceleration for the club members. They ambitiously set out to make this formative year the genesis of a new energized era in Scottish associations on Prince Edward Island. The first quarterly meeting was held on 6 June, four days after the birth of the new society. The first office-bearers were elected almost concurrently.’

This executive, in keeping with tradition, comprised some of the most eminent men in the colony. As usual, the current lieutenant- governor — George Dundas — was appointed chief. Elected president was Colonel John Hamilton Gray; vice-president was Hon. Patrick Walker; second vice-president, James Duncan, Esq., M.P.P.; treasurer, J .W. Morrison, Esq.; corresponding secretary, Dr. W.G. Sutherland; recording secretary, Neil McKelvie; and the executive committee, John Ross, Esq., Malcolm MacLeod, Esq., Adam Murray, Esq., James D. Mason, Esq., and William McGill, Esq.‘

The office-bearers and members began immediately to set their organization in motion. They had promised a revival of the Scottish athletics and customs of old. On the 13 June, the first notice appeared in the Examiner announcing the upcoming Highland Games and the various competitions to be held. These games were the expression of all the club’s objectives; a combination of athletics, music, literature, and dance in one day of public celebration. They were the culmination of generations of Scottish gatherings on the Island. More than ten years after these 1864 games, John LePage was to write a poem to this second gathering. It was even more glowing a tribute than his poem to the first.

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