The placing of the cairn was the work of a number of com- munity men. It consisted of one large granite stone found on the Hubert Crossman Shore on the south side of Grand River (now Belmont Community Pasture property). W H. Mac- Gregor provided a sloven (a low wagon used to haul potatoes) to transport the stone and he,_]ames MacGregor, Percy Miller, H.V. Carr, Seymour Thompson, RH. Lyle, Birchfield Yeo, andJames G. MacLean managed to load the stone. Using six teams of horses and a tractor it was hauled the three mile dis- tance to the church. The transportation of the stone was like a parade with people coming from their homes to the road to watch the impressive sight. Once the stone was positioned on the from north side of the church, a cement foundation was laid underneath. Mr. Laurie Peters of Summerside placed the memorial plaque on the stone. The bronze tablet was pur- chased from the A. H. Fallman (Fallmas) Bronze CO. Ltd of Hamilton, Ontario. The plaque reads:

In this vicinity on the 11th day of October 1821,

the first Presbytery of P.E.I. was constituted. Included in the membership were the Reverends john Keir, (Moderator), Robert Douglas (clerk), William MacGregor; and Edward Ramsay (Elder). Their labours then and subsequently laid sure foundations for their church on this Island, and bore rich fruit for God in distant lands.

“Other men laboured and ye have entered into their labours.”

The bill for the bronze plaque

mounted on the memorial cairn.

70 LOT 16 UNITED CHURCH AND ITS PEOPLE