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HE first steps toward the building of what is now known as Zion Church (Presbyterian), originally called Queen Square Church, were taken by a company of devoted men and women, under the leadership nominally of men; but really, as we are told, the moving power was Mrs. Douglas, the widow of the late Rev. Robert Douglas, formerly pastor of St. Peter’s Bay congregation. This lady, with her family, moved into Charlottetown after the death of her husband ; and by her indomitable push and energy, her solicitations amongst her co-religionists, her agitation amongst the clergy of the Presbyterian Churches of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, finally succeeded in creating a desire for a church, which grew to fruition “after not many days.” Sometime in the fifties, probably about 1857, the land was selected, and purchased from the Masonic Hall Company (formerly part of the Fanning estate)'; contracts and agreements were entered into, financial re- sponsibilities assumed, and a beginning made to “arise and build.” A number of godly men and women formed a nucleus of a Presbyterian congregation; they first assembled in Adam