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That year, 1830, would forever re-
main in the mind of John MacEachern
as the most important of his lifetime. It
was the year of his emigration, as a
20-year-old, from Rosneath, Scotland,
to Rice Point, Prince Edward Island.
Nine years after his arrival, when the
most strenuous part of the pioneer ex-
perience was over, MacEachern began
the practice of making a brief record of
the events of each day. This diary, or
day-book, was kept faithfully to the very
end of his long life; and often, on May
19th, he would pen variations of this
brief but suggestive entry: "This day we
landed at Charlottetown, 1830."