PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

Farmers' Institute, is secretary. cashier and managing director of the East Point Dairy Association since its inception, and has at all times taken a deep interest in local mat- ters. In 1897 he was appointed lighthouse keeper for East Point. He is a member of the St. Columbo Roman Catholic church.

In 1876 Mr. Macdonald married Miss Teresa McLean, a daughter of Allan and Flora (McDonald) McLean, of East Point, the latter being a member of the McDonald family of St. Peter’s. Mrs. McDonald’s paternal grandfather was Capt. Charles McLean, of the Prince Edward Island’s Fencibles, from which he was honourably discharged by His Excellency, E. Fanning, on August 14, 1802, and settled on land now known as the Coles farm, near Charlotte- town, subsequently moving to East Point. Mrs. Macdonald’s maternal grandfather McDonald bore the Christian name of Roderick and was born at St. Peter's. They were the parents of two children, Ronald and Mary Ann.

PATRICK MACINNIS, who stands high among his fellow agriculturists, and who has been successfully engaged also in mer— chandising and as a blacksmith, was born on the farm on which he now resides, in 1841, and is a son of John and Mary Mac- Innis. His father was born on this farm in 1800 and died here in 1903, at the remark- able age of ninety-six years. He devoted his life to agricultural pursuits. He was a Liberal in politics and took an active part in public afiairs. The subject’s paternal grandfather, Galion MacInnis, came to Prince Edward Island on a French ship which brought a large number of people

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from Glenaladale, Scotland. The priest of that parish was Father James Macdonald. Lord Macdonald of Glenaladale, was hard and intolerant with his tenants and as a Presbyterian established schools on his estate and tried to force the children to attend them. Father Macdonald then went to France and obtained a ship, on which he brought them all with their effects to Prince Edward Island, landing at French Fort, East River, Hillsboro. Galion MacInnis and his brother, Duncan, were passengers on this ship, which arrived in Prince Edward Island in 1805. The paternal great- grandfather, Duncan MacInnis, a native of Scotland, was also a passenger and is buried on Campbell’s Point, East Point, Lot 46. They first settled at Savage Harbour, but subsequently Galion MacInnis located at North Lake. Duncan MacInnis married a Miss McKinnon, while Galion MacInnis married Miss Sarah McKinnon, a daughter of Charles McKinnon, of Lot 37, Queens county, who came from Long Island, Scot- land. The subject’s mother was a daughter of Duncan MacInnis, of Cape Breton Island, but afterward located at Savage Harbour. He married a Miss McGilvray, of Cape Breton.

After securing a good education in the district schools of the community, the sub- ject of this sketch followed his father's vocation—that of farming—and during all the subsequent years has been successfully engaged therein. He gives a careful atten- tion to every detail of his business and has been successful in a definite degree, being now considered one of the progressive and lmding farmers of this lacality. He lomted at North Lake and here married Miss Mary McPhee, a daughter of Neil and Elizabeth (McKinnon) McPhee. Mrs. MacInnis’