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). 
     
    
   
   
    
     During Prince Edward Island Centennial Year, 1973, a tablet was 
     
     erected to the memory of Colonel John Hamilton Gray, Premier of this 
     
     Province 1863-65, chairman of the first conference on confederation 
     
     in 1864, and an elder of this congregation for thirty years. 
     
    
   
   
    
     On a small marble slab on the north wall of the Kirk is embedded 
     
     a small piece of granite brought to Charlottetown by a former Minister, 
     
     the Reverend Doctor R. Moorhead Legate, from the ruins of St. 
     
     Mary’s Cathedral on the Island of Iona, Scotland, the scene of St. 
     
     Columba’s mission in the 6th Century. The Cathedral was built for 
     
     the Benedictines in the 13th Century when they re—established the 
     
     work following the destruction of the original buildings in the Viking 
     
     raids of the 8th and 9th centuries. The Cathedral was allowed to fall 
     
     into ruin following the Reformation of the 16th Century but has since 
     
     been rebuilt by the Church of Scotland and is now the centre of the 
     
     Iona Community. The granite rock and the Celtic Cross inscribed on 
     
     the marble slab remind us that this Congregation was founded by 
     
     Ministers of the Church of Scotland and served by them for the first 
     
     one hundred and sixteen years of its history. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE CHANCEL FURNISHINGS 
     
    
   
   
    
     Over the Chancel hang the colours of the Prince Edward Island 
     
     Highlanders, originally the 82nd Regiment, The Abegweit Light 
     
     Infantry. These colours were purchased in London and presented to 
     
     the Regiment in a ceremony in Victoria Park on July 4th, 1908, by 
     
     Mrs. D. A. MacKinnon, wife of the Lieutenant Governor, and by Mrs. 
     
     Daniel Stewart, wife of the Commanding Officer of the Regiment. The 
     
     Rev’d T. F. Fullerton, Chaplain, was amongst those present on the 
     
     occasion and gave an address. This regiment is affiliated with the 
     
     famous Scottish Regiment of the British Army, the 42nd, the Black 
     
     Watch, whose Canadian counterpart celebrated in 1962 its centennial, 
     
     in honour of which Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, 
     
     paid a special visit to Montreal to dedicate new colours, and worship 
     
    
   
   
    
     in the regimental Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul with its officers 
     
     and men. 
     
    
   
   
    
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