Introduction

One of the most astonishing sights in West Prince County, Prince Edward Island is the View of the Immaculate Conception Church, Palmer Road. It rises, splendid and white. in the midst of a rural, treed landscape as one drives south along the coastal road through Waterford. This vision of a great building sitting high over its landscape, reminds travellers of European churches of the Middle Ages, built in an age when faith was everything and literal— ly moved the mountains of stone required to build them. The wooden church at Palmer Road was built on the same foundation of faith as its medieval predecessors with mountainous piles of