PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 445 at Red Point , Kings county, in which he was engaged up to 1885. He also engaged in ship building at Red Point and in the busi¬ ness of buying and exporting cured fish. In 1873 he moved from Red Point to Dun- das and started a general merchandise busi¬ ness also farming for some time before his death, which occurred in 1897, at the age of seventy-four years. He retired from the store and spent his remaining years on his farm. He was a leading member of the Conservative party and served as surveyor of shipping, clerk of the county court and post¬ master at Dundas , and justice of the peace, having served also, prior to this as post¬ master at Red Point . His parents were J. Ewan and Mary (MacAuley )Macdonald, natives of Scotland , who came to Prince Ed ¬ ward Island and located at Dundas , where they were pioneer farmers. They were members of the same family from whence came Thomas B. Macaulay , the noted Eng¬ lish historian. To his marriage with Miss Elizabeth Macdonald were born the following chil¬ dren: E. Hodgson is a farmer at Dundas ; Sophia is the wife of Lloyd Jones , of Quincy, Massachusetts ; Daniel Teeney ; Bessie is the wife of Dr. R. D. McLaughlin , of St Peter's, Kings county, Prince Edward Island ; Winifred is a teacher in Madden Massachusetts ; Fred S., V. S ., of Souris ; Hasseltine is a music teacher at Dundas ; Minnie Catherine is the wife of Dr. Peter H . Thompson, of Boston, Massachusetts ; Ada Gordon is principal of the Bridgetown schools at Dundas . The mother of these children was a daughter of Donald Mac ¬ donald, of Kingsboro , Prince Edward Island , a successful farmer who came from Perthshire, Scotland , and whose wife bore the maiden name of Annie McLean . Mrs. Elizabeth Macdonald is now living at Dun¬ das, at the age of seventy-two years, in the enjoyment of splendid health. Alexander William Bruce , a success¬ ful farmer at Red Point , Kings county, was born at this place, and is a son of George and Catherine (Robertson) Bruce, who was born in Caithnesshire, Scotland , and came to Prince Edward Island in 1841 in his young manhood. He settled on Wildland, Red Point , and there lived during the remainder of his life, dying in 1888, at the age of eighty-four. The old homestead then settled on by him is now owned by the sub¬ ject of this sketch. Catherine Robertson was a daughter of Alex Robertson , who came to Prince Edward Island from Perth ¬ shire, Scotland , and located at West River on a farm. The paternal grandfather, Alex Bruce , was bora in Scotland , and there lived and died. The subject of this sketch has been vari¬ ously engaged. He has given due attention to the operation of his farm, in which he has been successful to a gratifying degree, and has also conducted a store on his farm and engaged in the manufacture of shoes, though he is now retired from the latter busi¬ ness. Mr. Bruce has given his attention to every detail of his business and has met with a reward well merited by him. He is the owner of two of the finest farms on the Island and is considered among the leading citizens of his community. In politics he is an active Conservative, and was justice of the peace for twelve years, while in religion he is affiliated with the Baptist church. Mr. Bruce married Miss Catherine Cam ¬ eron, a daughter of Alex Cameron , of South