the established and free churches sent delegations to British North America with the task of securing the loyalties of the Scottish churches and ministers in the colonies. As it turned out, the Kirk ministers in Nova Scotia, with the exception of two, one of whom was John Martin of Halifax, declared for the Free church, as did some in New Brunswick. In Prince Edward Island, Belfast remained "loyal” to the established body. The Charlottetown church, after some waffling, did likewise and Georgetown whose minister, Hugh Ross, declared for the Free Church, went back to the fold of the Church of Scotland when it obtained pecuniary aid and a minister from that body. All other Kirk ministers and people on Prince Edward Island became "Free“ except for the followers of Rev. Donald McDonald who were in an irregular relationship with the parent church. Macdonald always believed himself to be a loyal son of the Church of Scotland though the home body had done nothing to pay his way as a missionary or to help his people build their churches. Thus as the reports here show, McDonald did not think that he or his people were accountable to external church authority or discipline but thought themselves allied to the established Church of Scotland. In 1860 the Free Church of Nova Scotia and P.E.l. united with the Synod of Nova Scotia (0f the Secession presbyteries) to form the Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces. They were joined in l866 by the Free Church body in New Brunswick. In I875 nearly all Presbyterians, including those of the Church of Scotland, participated in a pan-Canadian union of Presbyterianism. Similar unions took place in Scotland

After his death, MacDonald‘s followers were