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science, letters, divinity, law and politics. Notably the Eeverend Doctors 

 MacGregor and MacCulloch — to the latter of whom Pictou Academy owes 

 its existence — Chief Justice Sir Bi-enton Halliburton, Chief Justice Sir 

 William Young, Judge Haliburton, ('-Sam Slick"), the Reverend Dr. 

 Forrester, superintendent of education for years, the Honourable James 

 MacNab, long prominent in the ranks of the Liberal party. Sir James 

 William Dawson, the scientist, Principal Grant, now the able head of 

 Queen's University at Kingston in Ontario, the Reverend Dr. Patterson, 

 the archaeologist and historian — a descendant of one of the first Scotch 

 settlers of Pictou — the Honourable A. VV. McLelan, once finance minister 

 of Canada and lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia, Dr. A. H. Mackay, 

 present superintendent of education, Mr. Simon H. Holmes, once a Con- 

 servative premier, the Reverend Dr. Forrest, now head of Dalhousie 

 College, the Honourable William Ross, minister of militia in the dominion 

 government of 1873-1878, Chief Justice Macdonald of the provincial 

 supreme court. Professor MacGregor of Dalhousie — a grandson of the 

 Eeverend Dr. MacGregor — Mr. Justice Henry of the supreme court of 

 Canada, Mr. Justice Sedgwick of the same court, whose brother was an 

 eminent moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Canada, Bishops 

 Fraser, McKinnon and Cameron of the Roman Catholic Church, Premier 

 Murray of the present Liberal ministry of the province, Lieutenant- 

 Governor Mclnnes of British Columbia, and very many others who might 

 be named to show how important has been, and is still, the influence of 

 the Scotch element on the political, material, moral and intellectual 

 development of the province. 



VIII. Influx of Irish.— I have now briefly referred to the important 

 migrations of the Pre-loyalists, Loyalists and Scotch settlers from whom 

 by far the greater proportion of the present inhabitants of Nova Scotia 

 have sprung. It must not be supposed, however, that I intend to do any 

 injustice to the Emerald Tsle because I have not so far spoken of its 

 influence on our people. 



The Irish have never formed a large class as compared with the 

 English, Scotch and New England immigrants. I have mentioned that 

 some Ulster Presbyterians of Scotch descent settled in the present 

 county of Colchester and in other parts of the province at an early date- 

 The Roman Catholic Irish only came in later times, chiefly to the city and 

 county of Halifax, where they have been for years an influential, and, 

 on the whole, prosperous class. We can recall many men of this 

 versatile race who have distinguished themselves in politics, in commerce, 

 in law, in divinity, and in letters. Need I tell you of the Uniackes, more 

 than one of whom was famous for eloquence? Of Lawrence Doyle, 

 who illustrated the wit and genius of his nationality ? Of Sir Edward 

 Kenny, an example of great success in commerce and a member of the 

 first dominion government, whoso sons have won distinction in the church 

 and in parliament ? 



