Island Information: Bishop A. B. MacEachern Monument

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Bishop A. B. MacEachern Monument

Angus Bernard MacEachern, a pioneer missionary was born in 1759. He immigrated from Scotland in 1790. For 45 years he ministered zealously to the people of PEI, the Magdalen Islands, and to large sections of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Appointed Suffragan to the Bishop of Quebec in 1819, he became in 1829 the first Bishop of Charlottetown with jurisdiction over PEI, New Brunswick, and the Magdalen Islands. He founded the Island's first institution of higher learning at St. Andrews in 1831. This distinguished ecclesiastical and civil leader died in 1835.

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St. Andrews

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