Presentation to Rev. Donald Beaton

The Casket – June 26, 1913

PRESENTATION – On Monday, June 9th, Messrs. I, J. McEachern and Alexander McDougall, on behalf of the parishioners of the church at Ballantyne’s Cove, Ant., presented the pastor, Rev. Donald Beaton, with an address and a purse containing a substantial sum of money.  Captains Gillis and Keating and the crews of the Government dredge and tug-boat at work at Lakevale also kindly remembered Father Beaton, making him a gift of a nice sum of money.  The pleased recipient feelingly expressed his thanks to the generous contributors and remarked that he had simple reason to use the word generous in regard to the parishioners.  Almost every summer since he came among them, they had similarly kindly remembered him.  He hoped that God would bless them and prosper them.  Father Beaton intends to visit Boston shortly, to report at Carney Hospital on the good results of his last operation.  His many friends in the diocese will be glad to learn that his health is very much improved.