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the Church in what was called 'The Famine Year of 1837'. ' '

There was a great scarcity of feed at that time in the eastern part of the Province due to an_early

frost which destroyed the drops;

When navigation Opened up the follohing spring, boat loads of food; seed potatoes and grain sailed out of DeSable for delivery in Orséll Bay area and other parts. The writer can well remember shen'all events of any concern in the liféof the Connufiity; births, weddings, family troubles,years of pros; parity, seasons of want, times of joy; sorrow and death, were all remembered and dated by a remarkb able system of working forward or backward to the

year of a certain "Sable Sacrament". %

This Church stands today as it stood in the days of old, a testimony to generations of people who kept

the faith of their fathers. L

DESABLE METHODIST AND UNITED CHURCH - This Methodist Chapel was built in the year 1840 located on the site

of Crapaud Cemetery. My mother remembered going to i