Rev. MacPhie guides the reader through a highly detailed, and very readable, account of the birth and development of Pictou County in the Nova Scotia Province of Canada. "The 'Hope, ' bearing officers of the Philadelphia Company, so-called, and the families of half a dozen intending settlers, arrived at Pictou from Philadelphia, on June 10, 1767. The Company had obtained a Royal grant of 180,000 acres of land in the district." The original settlers, accompanied by their wives and children, included: Dr. John Harris, Robert Patterson, James McCabe, John Rogers, Henry Cummings, and possibly the...