This tiny island of a littel over 4 square miles is one of the chain islands of St. Vincent & the Gernadines.  Situated midway between Grenada and St. Vincent.  Mr. Jacques Daudin, in his book "Socio-Political History of Union", states that before 1763 tow Frenchmen, Jean Auger and Antoine Reguad, first settled there with 350 slaves.  When they left, Samuel Span, a wealthy merchant from Bristol, England, set up trade and became the first owner of Union Island.  The Span family was involved in the slave trade and brought many slaves to the island.  In 1778 the population of Union Island consisted of 16 Europeans and 430 slaves.  Slavery was abolished in 1834.  In 1850 Span sold Union Island to Major Collins from St. Vincent sho leased the island to a Scotsman, Charles Mulzac.  In 1893 Mulzac died andhis son Richard took over the lease.  In 1898 Mulzac sold Union to a Vincentian, Mr. Richards and finally in 1910 the British Crown bought the island and set up the Union Island Land Settlement Scheme dividing it into two and four-arce parcels and selling it to the local population.  This brought to an end the subjection of the people of Union Island.  Thereafter, the island has experienced a steady economic growth.  The island's first car was unloaded in 1956, the first secondary school was opened in 1972 and the airport was opened in 1974.

The amazing thing is that, despite its tiny size and tiny population, Union Island has produced a disproportionate number of professionals now licing all over the world.  The professions include judges, lawyers, Ph.Ds, MDs, teachers, university professors, scientists, politicians, engineers, accountants, economists, administrators, nurses, social workers and business entrepreneurs.

We are proud to be the descendants of Unionites and it is ours desire that when we would have passed off the scence of action, we would leave Union Island a better place than we met it.