'Sky' Volunteers Button

The Kist Exhibition is inspired by the Sky Volunteers button found in PEI ten years ago and returned to Skye, the place whence it left more than two hundred years ago. The button is now in the possession of Dualchas, the Museums Service in Skye & Lochalsh. When sending it back to Scotland the donor wrote,

"it was found is now a farmer’s field with a small dark area where the first settlers presumably had a log cabin…. the area was settled by Scots who came of the "Annabella" (brig) in 1770. She sailed from Campbeltown and landed here in October. The ship was wrecked on the offshore bars before they could get her into Malpeque Bay but fortunately there was no loss of life but most of their supplies were lost.

These people spent the winter on the shores of Malpeque Bay. They were assisted as much as possible by a few French and Indians who lived in the area. It is amazing how they survived that first winter in Canada with no loss of life.

The gentleman who brought this button out with him would never, in his wildest dreams believe how it was going back to Scotland 223 years later."