REV. JOHN C. SINCLAIR I843 - 1852

Rev. John C. Sinclair held pastorates in Pictou, Nova Scotia and in Alberton, Prince Edward Island. He was the first settled minister of the Alberton Charge from 1843 - 1852 which included territory from West Point to North Cape and West of Lots 11 and 12. He was educated and probably ordained in Scotland. On February 15, 1843, Rev. Sinclair was inducted into the ministry in Cascumpec (Alberton,

P.E.I.).

He came from Scotland to Nova Scotia in 1838 and left for the southern states of the United States in 1852. He was an excellent Gaelic scholar and preacher. He was a hard worker, a faithful evangelical preacher and a loyal Presbyterian. He died in Wheeling, West Virginia on April 23, 1878 at the age of 78 years.

REV. ALLEN FRASER 1855 - 1865

The ministry of the Rev. Allen Fraser of Pinette, Prince Edward Island began in 1855 and continued until his death in 1870 at the age of forty—five.

After the Alberton Presbyterian Church was destroyed by fire in 1854, the new church, presently the United Church of Canada, was built in 1856 while Rev. Fraser

was the pastor.

It is said that his grave lies beneath the location of the pulpit of the first church in Cascumpec, known for many years as the Old Dock Church, which had been erected on the property known today as the Old Dock Cemetery.

The ministry of Rev. Allan Fraser was shared with West Point and Camp— bellton as was that of his successor, the Rev. Arthur Frederick Carr, 1871 to 1889. During the eighteen year ministry of Rev. Carr, churches were built in Bloomfield, Elmsdale and Montrose, and the bounds of his Charge were reduced to the more im- mediate Alberton area. The Charge had previously included all the communities from West Point to Tignish and all the territory west of Lots 11 and 12.

In the early days, the Presbyterian minister in Alberton was responsible for the pastoral care of scattered families in a Charge so large that it was impossible for one minister to manage. During the ministry of the Rev. Allan Fraser, the section of the Charge which included West Point, Campbellton and the Brae became a separate congregation in 1865 and remained that way until 1907 when Campbellton joined the Montrose, Tignish, Elmsdale and Miminegash Charge. In 1889, the Rev. Aruthur Frederick Carr became the pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Camp- bellton, New Brunswick.

ALBERTON PRESBYTERIAN CHARGE

Rev. John C. Sinclair 1843 - 1852 Rev. Allan Fraser 1855 - 1865 Rev. Arthur Frederick Carr 1871 - 1889 Rev. John Keir Fraser 1891 - 1898

(Elder son of Rev. Allan Fraser) 276