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on Christmas eve of that year the first service was held in it. Father Perry was the first priest, and had for his parish. at first, all the western end of the county. He gave to the place the name of f‘La Belle Alliance” but afterward when a postoffice came to be established, the postmaster gave the office the name of Miscouche after a place at the shore on the south side.

Tignish is another place in this county where there is a large section of French peo- ple. In the autumn of 1879 eight Acadian families moved from Malpeque to this place, and two years afterward a log building for religious worship was put up, thirty feet by twenty—five, so that the place must have grown rapidly after the first settlers arrived.

But by a formal treaty the Island be- came a British colony in 1763. In the fol- lowing year Captain Holland was sent out by the Government to make a survey of it. This he did, dividing it into three counties and sixty-seven townships, more often called lots, since they were disposed of by a kind of lottery. But certain reservations were made. These consisted of a town site with a royalty at the rear. In this county Captain Holland made the reservation at Malpeque. and named it Princetown, but it never reached more than a plan on paper. On each town— ship there was also to be a glebe lot of one hundred acres for a church and minister, and fifty acres for a school master. What be- came of the glebes is not known, but within the last thirty years the school land in Lot I I was sold to a private individual. Part of the terms of the grants to the proprietors, as the grantees came to be called, was that they should settle their lands, but many did nothing toward this end. .Some, however, did. A shipload of emigrants from the west- ern Islands of Scotland were brought to

Malpeque shortly after the Island became a British possession. These were landed from the ship, among the French people then residing around the shores, and there is an impression among the descendants of these that they were used most harshly by the new comers—in fact it is claimed they were ousted from their homes and clearings.

After the close of the American war of Independence the United Empire Loyalists, a people in the American colonies to the south who refused to join in the rebellion, made their way north rather than reside in the new United States, and many of them came as far as this province. This was be- tween I780 and 1790. They settled for the most part in Bedeque, spreading themselves as far up as Lot 16 and Lot 19. In the cen- sus of I798—the first taken in this province —numbers of the names of these appear principally in the territory around Bedeque Bay.

Well toward the southeast of the coun- ty, around what is known as Kinkora, a large number of people from Ireland are settled, but they came in later years. Prior to 1840 a number of Irish were settled there, but these came from the south of Ire- land. In 1841 some seven hundred came out from the counties of Armagh and Monaghan in a vessel called the “Consbruck.” These landed in Charlottetown, and from there some went to Fort Augustus and De Sable in Queens county, but others came to Sea Cow Head, and about fifty of them settled in what was then known as South- west, afterward as Somerset and latterly as Kinkora.

In the early days there were no roads. Communication between places was by rough paths through the woods and in places where there 'was but little movement