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youth of all denominations. "It is particularly intended" said Lord 

 Dalhousie, in laying the foundation stone in May, 1820, "for those ex- 

 cluded from Windsor. Its doors will be open to all who profess the 

 Christian religion." At a much later time King's had even an oppor- 

 tunity to unite with Dalhousie but its too conservative supporters would 

 not avail themselves of the occasion offered them of giving vitality 

 to their ancient institution, around whose time-worn walls the tide of 

 progress surges in vain. While Dalhousie still shows evidences of Pres- 

 byterian influences in its staff, yet it is non-sectarian in its teachings and 

 is doing a useful work in the promotion of higher education.^ Acadia, 

 which also had its origin in the old times of bitter antagonism to King's 

 and the church which governed it, is also a prosperous institution from 

 which have graduated not a few men who have made their impress on 

 the intellectual thought of the world. Among those who have won a 

 reputation beyond the province are President Schurman of Cornell 

 University ; Dr. Wallace, chancellor of McMaster University ; Dr. 

 Welton, professor of Oriental languages in the same institution; Dr. 

 Corey, president of the Theological College at Richmond, Virginia; 

 Dr. T. H. Eand, ex-chancellor of McMaster University, poet and scholar, 

 who was superintendent of education in Nova Scotia as well as New 

 Brunswick ; Dr. Silas McYane, an accomplished professor of history and 

 economics in Harvard University; Dr. C. T. Hart, president of the 

 Geological Survey of Brazil; Dr. B. Rand, an assistant professor of 

 economics in Harvard University. Judges Graham and Weatherbe, of 

 the supreme court of Nova Scotia ; Judge McLeod, of the supreme court 

 of Prince Edward Island ; Judge Johnston, of the HaHfax county court, 

 eldest son of Hon. J. W. Johnston, and the versatile attorney-general of 

 the province, Hon. J. W. Longley, F.R.S.C, were also educated in the 

 same progressive institution. 



Presbyterian missionaries appear to have been laggard in coming to 

 the island of Cape Breton after the Scotch migration in the first quarter 

 of the nineteenth century. For some years the island was visited at dis- 

 tant intervals by Dr. MacGregor and other clergymen in Eastern Nova 

 Scotia, and it was not until after 1830 that the Reverend Mr. Farquahar- 

 son was specially sent out by the generosity of a rich lady in Scotland. 

 In a few years, there were labouring in the difierent places, the following 

 ministers : Reverend Mr. Stewart, at St. George's Channel ; Reverend 

 Mr. Wilson, at Sydney Mines ; Reverend Mr. McLean, at Whycocomagh ; 

 Reverend Mr. Miller, at Mabou ; Reverend John Gunn, at Broad Cove ; 



1 See "Memoirs of James MacGregor, D.D., by Rev. George Patterson, D.D., 

 Philadelphia and Halifax. 8vo, 1859." No portrait of Dr. MacGregor is in existence. 



" A history of the County of Pictou" by the same, Montreal, 8vo, 1877. 



"History of the Mission of the Secession Church to Nova Scotia and Prince 

 Edward Island from its commencement in 1765, by Rev. J. Robertson, 12mo, Edin- 

 burgh, 1847." 



