The SCOttiSb Since this Island then formed a part ofthe scattered Diocese of Quebec, Father MacEachern

A new day dawned for the Catholic Church on was soon called upon to exercise his ministry in the Island in 1772. That year 210 Scottish Cape Breton and in New Brunswick as immigrants arrived under the sponsorship of well. In 1821 he became auxiliary Captain John MacDonald and settled on his Bishop onuebec and in 1829 the first lands in the Scotchfort-Tracadie Bay area. Bishop ofCharlottetown. During all his years here he maintained his

Accompanying the new settlers was Father headquarters at St. Andrew’s. James MacDonald, aged 36. His “parish” extended over the whole Island which had not From these early Scottish seen a priest for nearly fifteen years. The Acadians immigrants came the first Island- were particularly happy to have him here. born priest, Father Bernard

MacDonald, who was ordained in

More Scottish immigrants came in 1822. After serving as pioneer jazmcs Morrison, succeeding years and eventually extended their missionary priest he became the Bishop ofAntigonisb presence over much of Kings County and second Bishop of Charlottetown. 1912-1950 beyond. After only thirteen years here, Father James MacDonald died. Worn out by his years In 1922 a grand monument, topped by an ofexemplary missionary zeal as the only priest immense Celtic Cross, was erected at Scotchfort here, he left his beloved people greatly saddened to commemorate the arrival in P.E.I. ofthe first and without a priest for the next five years. Scottish Catholic immigrants in 1772.

The year 1790 is an immensely important one for the Island’s Catholics. That year another band of Scottish immigrants arrived on the Island and this time, too, they were accompanied by a young priest, Father Angus MacEachern, aged 31 and filled with the missionary zeal of his recent predecessor. The Island Catholic population at this time

was listed at approximately 600, halfAcadian, halfScottish. The descendants ofthese early Scottish immigrants are pretty well spread all across PEI, especially in Kings County.

Bis/mp Angus ll/Iaclitu‘bcrn 's [70th Memorial to Scams/2 settlers, 1922

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