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One can only imagine how totally alone the Lewis Settlers must have felt as their tiny crafts inched slowly up Lake Huron's densely forested shoreline. The landscape of late summer/early autumn with its fiery red foliage must have looked bizarre and frightening to the crofters who came from an island almost completely devoid of trees.

One story that has survived among Lewis descendants in Huron Township relates how "the women were frightened and feared there would be no word of God in such a heathen place". Miraculously as their boat approached its destination the group heard the familiar sound of Gaelic psalm singing from an open air church service and they were comforted by the Voices on the Shore.