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CHAPTER XV.

VALLEYFIELD.

This congregation when first organized com— prised Brown’s Creek, Valleyfield, Cardigan and Dundas, or Grand River as it was then called. The first settlers of Valleyfield and Brown’s Creek came out from the Isle of Skye in 1840. The greater part of the immigrants who arrived in this year had been brought up under the ministry of the late Rev. Rod— rick McLeod of Skye, and in the land of their adop- tion they did not forget the pious teachings of that notable divine. Ample proof of this fact was given by the consistent and devoted lives of such men as Donald Bruce, from whom all the families of that name in Valleyfield are descended; Sween Camp- bell, a man of extraordinary intellectual power, pos— sessing an extensive acquaintance with the Scrip- tures, a fluent speaker, especially in Gaelic, and a pious and devoted worker in the Master’s vineyard; Martin McPherson (Beag), Malcolm Montgomery, father of Donald Montgomery, the late superin- tendent of education; Malcolm MacLeod, grand- father of Revs. J. M. MacLeod of New Brunswick and Alex. MacLeod of Prince Edward Island; Mal- colm Bruce and William Martin. Besides the foregoing, who were all elders, there were also Don- ald McLeod, Donald McIvor, Donald McBeth, Al- exander McRae and Angus McLeod of Kinross. All

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