HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EAST POINT BAPTIST CHURCH arder of the canoe fleet and considered fit for nearly any voyage. She was in great demand for trips to Georgetown or Whiteman's Point where much of their business was transacted, and I believe made many visits to Three Rivers where many of their old neighbors and kinsfolk from Perthshire were settled. Alexander Fraser loved Scotland with all the fervor and devotion of his strong nature. He left it because of the withering, blighting curse or landlordism to make for himself a home in a more democratic country v here the masses are not dominated by the classes. After some examina¬ tion he selected the farm at South Lake . He built the usual log house near the spring and the shore, and the first winter Peter Stewart and his wife lived with them. They were old neighbors in Scotland , and came cut together. He had some means when he landed, and after consider¬ able negotiations purchased the fee simple of his farm and commenced to hew for himself a home out of the forest. They hoed the seed among the stumps and cut it with the reaping hook. They grew the flax, pulled it, dried it, broke it, hackled it, spun it and wove it. They took the wool off the sheep and put it on the members of the family, and they knew but little about the New York or fashions. Plain, honest, un¬ affected and hospitable, his home was ever open to the stranger and the wayfarer, a home for preachers for many years. The late Judge Young often drove from Charlottetown with his wife and two maids to spend a vacation with him. He was born in the reign of George III . He lived in the reign of four British sovereigns. Alexander Fraser lived fifty-two years here, and saw his sons settled and in comfortable circumstances, and left a competence to all his family. His living descendants now number about ninety and it may be re¬ marked that but few of them have ever left this country. They have generally made good here. After an active, eventful and useful life, on September 17th, 1869, in his eighty-second year he calmly and fearlessly met the last great en¬ emy and he could truly exclaim, "I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought the good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith." Charles Wilmot and Herbert Prescott Ford , sons of Rev. J. Alex ¬ ander Ford and Ada Eveline Fraser Ford , participated in the "World War" with distinction. Their only daughter, Evelyn, is now the wife of James Vanderwall , Spokane, U. S. A. 53