Far over to the right of the organ casing is the Aubrey Blanchard Memorial in honour of a young engineer who lost his life in the S. Lawrence River in 1905, shortly after his graduation from McGill University. He was a son of the first couple married in the present Kirk, and a grandson of its architect.

Further to the right we have the two windows to the memory of Mr. J. R. Burnett, long an Elder of this Congregation, and the Editor of the “Charlottetown Guardian”. The first window shows S. Ninian, 360-432 A.D., the first Apostle of Scotland, and in the panel below is seen the little Church at Whithorn, the first stone sanctuary in Britain. The second window has the figure of S. Columba, the 6th Century founder of the great Iona mission, and the Apostle of the Picts and Scots in the Highlands. In the panel below a little coracle bearing the missionary and his monks makes its way across the sea from Ireland. The musician’s lyre and the Boy Scout fleur-de-lis, in opposite Corners of these windows, bear record of Mr. Burnett’s generous support of our Boys’ Choir and Scout Troop.

Also under the gallery in the East Wall are windows portray- ing S. Mark the Evangelist, and S. Luke “the beloved physician”, which latter is the tribute to her husband of Mrs. H. A. Stetson who left a generous portion of her modest estate to the treasury of this Church which she loved so dearly.

MEMORIAL TABLETS

On the walls of the Church are to be found tablets of oak, bronze and marble to men and women who loved God and served Him in this congregation in days gone by. These include memorials to the late W. Chester S. McLure, long an Elder, and prominent in the public life and legislatures of the land; to “Mary Ellen”, the young wife of a Dr. Sutherland, who died nearly a century ago; to Ernest W. Auld who gave his life in the First World War and- to his brother, George, who made the same costly sacrifice in the Second World War; to the Reverend William Snodgrass, DD, and the Reverend Thomas Duncan, D.D., both honoured Ministers of this people a hundred years ago; to James Anderson from Huntley, Aberdeen; to James Watt, a baker, the son of the stonemason who built our Provincial Legislative Building; and to Dr. N. Colin MacKenzie who lost his life in the sinking of the “Fairy Queen”, off Pictou Island on October 7th, 1853. (This was the tragedy that gave rise to the legend of the mysterious ringing of the bells in the old Kirk on that day.)

On a small marble slab on the north wall of the Kirk is em- bedded a small piece of granite brought to Charlottetown by a former Minister, the Reverend Doctor R. Moorhead Legate, from the ruins of S. Mary’s Cathedral on the island of Iona, Scotland, the scene of S. Columba’s mission in the 6th Century. The Cathedral

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