■ .;: -5- ■ had coma half a century earlier* The Highlands of Scotland as the nineteenth cautery opened was by no means a delightful place to call hone* The people, driven £rom the land* were forced to ska out a meagre existence cm the herring they oaught off their rugged coasts* In their darkest hour* however, oaiae vexed from the Earl of Selkirk that now land was available far them* a lend where there could he food in abundance* Be-told them of a fertile island far across tho soa trhare they eight live under kinder sides*' Soppily, but in another sense unhappily, they agreed to leave forever their ancestral homos and fend anew in a wilderness that was destined to become the flower¬ bed of Canada * . ,. .,. ^l3* J l-SlUg v,aB *Ile f^2"3* of three ships to arrive in C&nell £37* She landed on itugust 7, 1805, at the present site of Baliiday*, the massive cliffs serving as the only official greeting. She tykes* with lord Selkirk on board, arrived lata in the evening ^ust two days behind* A striking appearance greeted him. Each family had kindled a large fire near their wigwams, and round these were assembled groups of figures whose peculiar national dress added to the singularity of tha surrounding sceno* The Thole woods were illuminated*, She Qaafofefa lay anchor on. £uga3t 27 to round out the oucoecsful landing of goto than 800 hardy souls of all ages, embracing evoxy trade, and including, of course, its complement of pipers. 3 . ■ . Shlcola SlaoQuecn, Skyo Pioneers and "The Island," 36. 8 BaoQueen, on, ,qit». 37»