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that the people should also be provided with a church. Accordingly in 1806, arrange- ments were made for this purpose, and the work was rapidly pushed on so that in a very short time a suitable place for worship was erected in their midst. About the year 1810 a small church was built on Panmure Island and thus the religious needs of the Catholic colonists in the eastern portion of the Island were in some measure provided for as far as the building of churches was concerned.

During these years Father MacEach- em was equally mindful of the other parts of the colony. In 1810 he superin- tended the erection of a church at Grand River, Lot 14, and had the same dedicated to St. Bgrick. This mission had been settled in 7 , by a band of twenty-eight families from he \Vestem Islands of Scotland. They were visited three or four times each year by Father MacEachem and thereby were en- abled in some measure to comply with their religious duties. A few years afterwards it was found necessary to erect a larger build- ing for the accommodation of their increas- ing numbers. About the same time it was decided to provide a place of worship for the Acadian settlers of Egmont Bay. These had removed thither mainly from Malpeque, owing to difficulties which had arisen with their landlord, Colonel Comp- ton. As soon as they had erected a shelter for themselves in their new surroundings, they set to work to build a small church ac- cording to their more immediate require- ments. The settlement of Indian River had also about this time developed sufficiently to require the building of a small church. There were then about twenty—seven Cath- olic families in this district, being Highland emigrants of the years 1790, 1792 and 1796.

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Accordingly in 1814, work was begun on their new church and in due time the build- ing was in readiness for divine worship. The year 1812 was rendered noteworthy by a visit to the Island by the illustrious Bishop Plessis, of Quebec, a man of excel- lent talents and praiseworthy zeal in the cause of religion. His visit embraced most of the Catholic districts in the Island, and he was thereby enabled to see for himself the vast field of labor in which Father Mac— Eachem was obliged to put forth his energy. There were then to be attended such cen- ters as Rollo Bay, St. Margaret’s, St. An- drew’s, East Pooint, Three Rivers, Traca- die, Charlottetown, Rustico, Malpeque, Grand River, Egmont Bay, Indian River, and Tignish, with the missions of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, besides many other smaller and unorganized sections settled by scattered emigrants, and also the various In- dian settlements of the time. It was evident to the Bishop that such accumulated labor could not be borne by any one man, however strong and energetic he might be. It was accordingly decided that, if at all possible. another priest should be sent to the Island and thus help along the good work. It was therefore a source of much joy to Father MacEachem to learn that a priest was to be sent to his assistance, and shortly after the visit of Bishop Plessis, Father Beaubien ar- rived and made his headquarters at the mis- sion of Rustico, from whence he visited the various Acadian missions of the Island. While it was a source of much encourage- ment to Father MacEachem to have the val- ued assistance of a brother priest in the mis- sionary labors of St. John’s Island, still it could not be said that any respite from hard work was allowed to either of these good missionaries. There was more than enough