Highfield Presbyterian Church 1900-1959

The Highfield Presbyterian Church was located on the 414 Lower Malpeque Road in West Royalty. The church was demolished in 1959.

The following excerpt from, The Charlottetown Guardian" Friday, Oct. 30, 1959, Pg 11 Island Presbytery is third in donations to new school - The Presbytery of Prince Edward Island at its meeting Tuesday was advised that it stands third in all Canada in percentage of allocations raised for the new deaconess training school in Toronto, and first of the eighth Presbyteries and the Synod of the Maritime Provinces of the Presbyterian Church in Canada. This information was given out by the Rev. E. H. Bean, Convener of Presbytery, committee for the Deaconess Building Fund… Elders were also in attendance as follows, Percy McPherson, D.J. Riley, L.A. MacKinnon, J.S. Stavert, Elmer MacDonald, Daniel MacNevin, M.J. Frasier, George Johnston, W.E. Forbes, Harry Patterson, Truman Paynter. Correspondence included request for nomination of a dean for the deaconess training school, of a secretary for the stewardship and budget committee and succession of Dr. Neil Miller, who passed away this summer, and notification that the memorial tablet to the late Rev. Daniel McLean, which had been in the Highfield Church is now, by order of Presbytery, in the Churchill Church with an added description of his original location... Reporting on property, the clerk, Rev. T.H.B. Somers, announced that L.A. MacKinnon had now completed the demolition of the Highfield Church as instructed to do so by the Presbytery some months ago. Application is to be made to the churches board of trustees in Toronto for permission for the Highfield Cemetery trustees to use the land surrounding the church site for burial purposes, as it immediately adjoins the Highfield Cemetery.