Crossing over into the States in 1909, he worked at a ranch in Idaho and later at Whitefish, Montana at a lumber camp. Feeling the call of the sea again, he shipped on the 8.8. State of Washington out of Seattle as seaman and at the end of two years was Second Mate. In 1912, he joined the Aztec and sailed to Panama as Quartermaster. He later joined the SS. Minnesota and sailed to China, Japan and the Phillippines. In December of that year, he shipped on the US. Coast Guard Tacoma when that ship was one of a patrol engaged in preventing seal poaching by the Japanese and Russians in the Pribiloff Islands. Hard luck dogged him on this venture as his ship was wrecked off Attu Island and the crew drifted for six days, finally being picked up off Siberia and returned to Seattle. About this time, the first events of the Great War were big news so he shipped to England where he joined the Royal Navy as signalman on H.M.A.S. Carol. After the Battle of Jutland he received his Honorable Discharge at Leith, Scotland, and im- mediately joined the Canadian Army in the infantry, serving in France, Belgium and Germany. He was returned to Canada in April, 1919, and about a year later he married Miss Hattie Laird of Kelvin, P.E.I. He bought the family farm at The Ferry Lot 16 from Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cotton his brother-in-law and sister. He and his family lived there for a few years, then moved to Kensington, P.E.I. They had a family of four sons and one daughter: Laird and Blair, (both now deceased), Barrie, Jean and Norman. For seven years following 1919, he was High Sheriff in Prince County, P.E.l.; in 1928 he joined the Customs Excise Preventive Service. When this organization was absorbed by the RCMP. he was made a corporal and served successively at Alberton and Summerside in charge of Detach— ments. Then he was deeded a fox ranch and had visions of retiring, but fate saw otherwise and he became attached to Curran and Briggs, con- tractors for a new airport at Summerside as Personnel Manager. When this was finished, early in 1942, he went to Pictou to be Security Supervisor at the Shipyard, where he lived until his death, Oct. 4, 1968, at the age of 78

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MAC GREGOR HISTORY

REV. WILLIAM NIACGREGOR (1776-1850) and his wife ANN (1771—1845) emigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1820, from Methven, Perthshire, Scotland. They had a family of three sons and two daughters: John, An— drew, Jane, Peter and Mary. John - was born in 1799. He married Marjorie Campbell and lived in Belmont, Lot 16. They had two sons, JOHN and WILLIAM, and two daughters, Mary Ann and Flora. John married Margaret Ross and they had two daughters — Marjorie, who married Roy Campbell (one son, Walter), and Georgie, married a Mr. Crossman. William married Arlotta Read. Andrew — married Isabella MacLaurin. They had one son, WILLIAM HUMPHREY, who married Mary Crawford MacLean, daughter of Charles MacLean and Christina Ferguson MacLean. William Humphrey lived on the farm now owned by Allison and Edith MacLean. He was a

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