TO GOD BE THE GLORY

move was made to the upstairs of Patrick Brown’s Tin and Stove Shop. This business was located on Central Street, at the intersection of Central and First Streets, on the north side of First Street. It would be the final site of Presbyterian headquarters at Green’s Shore until the first church was ready for worship. Known as Brown’s Hall, this building later became the site of Gourlie’s Drug Store.

In 1853 William Green, a miller, included in his will provisions for a quarter acre of land to be given for the construction of a Presbyterian Church at Green’s Shore. When he died on Oct. 23, 1854 the property passed to Richmond Bay Presbyterian Charge. The lot was eighty feet wide, with shore frontage, and was bounded on the east by present—day St. Lawrence Street. Although the gift proved to be unsuitable for a church site it was memorable in that it was the first bequest made to any Summerside church.

Two years later Reverends Robert S. Patterson and John MacLeod, encouraged by the promise of support from Hon. James Muirhead and others, decided to act. With the support of the Presbytery of P. E. I. they obtained a plot of land in December 1856 from William Green’s brother, Joseph, on the east end of North Market Street (Plot No. 89) for the sum of £40 (about $100 today). Three presbytery officers, Rev. Robert S. Patterson, Rev. John R. MacLeod, and Rev. Allan Fraser, held the site in trust for Summerside Presbyterians until a church could be built on it.

Rev. John MacLeod accepted a call to Newport, N.S. in 1859 and would not be present to witness the results of his earnest endeavours to erect a church for

the Summerside congregation.

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