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The
Reverend W. P. Floyd
The
Reverend M. P. Floyd arrived in Killarney early in March 1898, with
Mrs. Floyd and four children. I was the eldest, with my brother
Ellis, and sisters, Marion and Jean. Jean was a very sick babe in
arms.
Father
served regularly at Highview, Wakopa, Lyonshall and Lena, and held some
services at Hullett. He drove twenty-eight miles one Sunday and
thirty-two the other, serving two out-of-town stations on alternate
Sundays and Killarney every Sunday night, through all kinds of weather,
for five years. He found his own horse and rigs, was paid nine
hundred dollars per annum, and never missed a Sunday.
Then
the field was reduced to Highview and Killarney, and later to Killarney
alone, with morning and evening services, plus Sunday School in the
afternoon, Young People’s Society after evening service, Prayer Meeting
Wednesday night and Choir Practice Friday night, this last often being
held in the manse. Both Father and Mother took a leading part in
all these activities.
We left
Killarney in mid-November 1909. There was a Reverend Hodnut
in charge there before my father. The Presbyterian church was
built before our time there, but the basement was finished while we
were there.
Harold
S. Floyd, Quesnel, B.C.
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