Original Cemetery Committee profiled (2008)
The St. Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery has appeared in the mainstream media. The following articles give an illustration of its past and hopes for the future.
Honouring their ancestors
A small group of descendants, interested individuals hope to breath new life into historic St. Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery
by Mary MacKay, from the Charlottetown Guardian,November 27, 2008
The people buried in the St. Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery in St. Margarets may be long gone but they have not been forgotten. A small group of descendants and interested parties are trying diligently to breath new life into this tired, neglected burial ground, which was recently designated as a provincial heritage place by P.E.I. Heritage Foundation.
"This cemetery is from 1803. It's one of the oldest Catholic cemeteries in P.E.I. but there is evidence to show that people were buried here in the late 1700s (when the area was first settled by the Scottish immigrants)," says Anne Kells of Charlottetown, who along with her sisters, Pat Malone of Charlottetown and Helen MacDonald of Souris, are part of the St. Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery volunteer committee that is working on the restoration of this historic rural site which is the final resting site for 120 pioneering souls at the very least.
Sisters Anne Kells of Charlottetown, left, Helen MacDonald of Souris and Pat Malone of Charlottetown are part of a recently formed committee that is keen to restore beauty and dignity to the St. Margaret of Scotland Pioneer Cemetery which has fallen into disrepair.