Saint Dunstan's College Charlottetown L :I3SI0II OF ST. BOKAV^.: TLRa Upon a sun shining June morning in the year of grace 1172, an ocean vessel made her way up the curving line of blue now known asthe Hillsborough riiver. Very slowly and carefully she glided over these, I to her) unknown waters, avoiding shoals and mussel beds inmumerable. After passing an old fort once occupied by the French who had been the former settlers in this district, the good ship skirted a low lying shore, where the young marsh hay scented the summer air and gave promise of easily gained crops in future ye..rs. Finding no landing, she sailed on, coming to anchor at a spot where the shore, slightly curving, offers a firm footing at the base of a low bank of deep red clay. This ship was "Alesander " from Lock Boisdale in , and her passengers were emigrants cone to seek their fortune in St. John's Island under the guidance and protection of Captain John LiacDonald of Glenaladale , called by his clansir.en Fer-a-^lilinne. Of these emigrants one hundred were from Uist and one hundred and ten from Ltorar and other parts of Invernesshire. They were accompanied by one Father James i .icDonald from the diocese of the Isles, who had left his parish of Brummond to conduct his fellow clansmen to their new hone, and to supply them with tne consolations of that religion which was costing soce of them so dear. >'e may well imagine that two hundred and tea persons "Strangers in a strange land" and hampered with a tremendous amount of luggage that to modern eyes would appear curious ar.d cumbersome, would take some little time to scatter ar.d settle upon the spots destined to becoa.e their homes. Captain John i .'acDonald's family aj.d tenants were taken over the narrow strip of land to where the seigneury of Tracadie stretches across tne northern beach, but others ru. c. i :.cu .ere they had landed. The year before the arrival of the "Alexander" with her huiiian cargo, Captain John