Gordon Darrach, the son of Neil Angus Darrach and Christina MacDonald of East Royalty, Prince Edward Island was born in Calgary, Alberta where he received his early education. He then attended Prince of Wales in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Pine Hill Divinity School. He was ordained in the ministry of the United Church of Canada in June 1937 and served at the North End mission in Halifax.

At the outbreak of WWII, he enlisted in the Princess Louise Fusiliers and served with this company in England and Iotaly, with the Calgary Tanks in France and Holland and the Three Rivers Regiment in Holland and Germany. For his wartime service, France awarded him the highest military decoration for valor, the Croix de Guerre (avec etoile argent).

In 1949 he joined the Canadian Army as chaplain and served in various bases in Canada as well as in Korea, Indochina and Europe. In 1965 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in his appointment as senior Protestant chaplain with the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. Following retirement in 1967, he worked until 1976 as a director of the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfare.

Gordon Darrach was married to Jean MacKenzie (1915-1977) of Pictou, N.S. and had two sons, Ian and Alastair. He died on 12 October 1983.

Two years after his father's death, Neil Angus, the eldest son, purchased a property in East Royalty and moved the family to this property on the corner of St. Peter's and Union Roads. Here he farmed and carried out a successful building construction business. He also established the Health Pasteurizing Milk Co. in partnership with Walter and Harold Heartz. He and his wife Christina MacDonald had four children, Gordon (1909-1983), Malcolm, Ivan, and Shirley.

Gordon Darrach was born in Calgary, Alberta where he received his early education followed by attendance at Prince of Wales in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Pine Hill Divinity School. He was ordained in the ministry of the United Church of Canada in June 1937 and served at the North End mission in Halifax. At the outbreak of WWII, he enlisted in the Princess Louise Fusiliers and served with this company in England and Italy, with the Calgary Tanks in France and Holland and the Three Rivers Regiment in Holland and Germany. For his wartime service, France awarded him the highest military decoration for valor, the Croix de Guerre (avec etoile argent).

In 1949 he joined the Canadian Army as chaplain and served in various bases in Canada as well as in Korea, Indochina and Europe. In 1965 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel with his appointment as senior Protestant chaplain of the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. Following retirement in 1967, he worked until 1976 as a director of the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfare.

Gordon Darrach was married to Jean MacKenzie (1915-1977) of Pictou, N.S. and had two sons, Ian and Alastair.

Gordon Darrach, the son of Neil Angus Darrach and Christina MacDonald of East Royalty, Prince Edward Island was born in Calgary, Alberta where he received his early education. He then attended Prince of Wales in Charlottetown, P.E.I., Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Pine Hill Divinity School. He was ordained in the ministry of the United Church of Canada in June 1937 and served at the North End mission in Halifax.

At the outbreak of WWII, he enlisted in the Princess Louise Fusiliers and served with this company in England and Iotaly, with the Calgary Tanks in France and Holland and the Three Rivers Regiment in Holland and Germany. For his wartime service, France awarded him the highest military decoration for valor, the Croix de Guerre (avec etoile argent).

In 1949 he joined the Canadian Army as chaplain and served in various bases in Canada as well as in Korea, Indochina and Europe. In 1965 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel in his appointment as senior Protestant chaplain with the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. Following retirement in 1967, he worked until 1976 as a director of the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfare.

Gordon Darrach was married to Jean MacKenzie (1915-1977) of Pictou, N.S. and had two sons, Ian and Alastair. He died on 12 October 1983.

Two years after his father's death, Neil Angus, the eldest son, purchased a property in East Royalty and moved the family to this property on the corner of St. Peter's and Union Roads. Here he farmed and carried out a successful building construction business. He also established the Health Pasteurizing Milk Co. in partnership with Walter and Harold Heartz. He and his wife Christina MacDonald had four children, Gordon (1909-1983), Malcolm, Ivan, and Shirley.

Gordon Darrach was born in Calgary, Alberta where he received his early education followed by attendance at Prince of Wales in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Mount Allison University, Dalhousie University and Pine Hill Divinity School. He was ordained in the ministry of the United Church of Canada in June 1937 and served at the North End mission in Halifax. At the outbreak of WWII, he enlisted in the Princess Louise Fusiliers and served with this company in England and Italy, with the Calgary Tanks in France and Holland and the Three Rivers Regiment in Holland and Germany. For his wartime service, France awarded him the highest military decoration for valor, the Croix de Guerre (avec etoile argent).

In 1949 he joined the Canadian Army as chaplain and served in various bases in Canada as well as in Korea, Indochina and Europe. In 1965 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel with his appointment as senior Protestant chaplain of the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Group in Germany. Following retirement in 1967, he worked until 1976 as a director of the Nova Scotia Department of Public Welfare.

Gordon Darrach was married to Jean MacKenzie (1915-1977) of Pictou, N.S. and had two sons, Ian and Alastair.

Verna Grant Darrach was born in New Haven, Prince Edward Island in 1906, the youngest of ten children of Angus Neil Darrach and Margaret Nicholson. Prior to her nursing training Verna taught school for over 6 years in Bonshaw, DeSable, Hampton and Brookfield, P.E.I. Following graduation from the PEI Hospital School of Nursing in 1937, she did private nursing for one year and then was the first nurse to be appointed Director of the Junior Red Cross and was also in charge of the Red Cross crippled children's work.

In 1943 she enlisted in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Following six months basic training in Debert N.S., she served as a nursing sister with the rank of Lieutenant in England, France, Holland and Germany with No. 21 Canadian General Hospital. In May 1945 she transferred to No. 16 Canadian General Hospital in Germany caring for prisoners of war. Returning to Canada she served briefly at the Veterans' Hospital in Cornwallis, but returned to the Red Cross in Prince Edward Island when the polio crisis developed in 1946. She organized a polio treatment centre at the Provincial Sanatorium, organized loan cupboards of sick room supplies across the province, and set up a number of home nursing courses. In 1952 she was made Director of Nursing Services for the province, a position she held until 1958.

For the next ten years Verna and her sister Laura managed the Parkview Motel in Moncton and the Kirkwood Motel in Charlottetown, both owned by Capt. Carl Burke. At the age of 62 Verna took a course in psychiatric nursing at Riverside Hospital and was employed in this capacity for fifteen months.

Verna received the 1939-1945 Star, the France and Germany Star, War Medal 1939-1945 and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp. The Zonta Club named her an outstanding woman of PEI and she received a Certificat as an Honorary Member of the Nurse Alumnae.

Verna Grant Darrach died on 10 March 1995.