Not all farmers. however. resorted to trickery, even in the face of dire necessity. The writer remembers when, as a boy on a fishing trip one August, of seeing a grain seeder in the middle of a large field with the grain growing up to the back of the seeder and the center of the field never sowed. The farmer, being unable to obtain the seed required. had never returned to take home his seeder.

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS

Previous to 1860 there were no known Church buildings in Freetown. 1n the earliest years the Presbyterians walked or rode horseback to Prince- town, now Malpeque. It was possibly around 1826 that the first Presbyterian Church was built in close proximity to the present North Bedeque Cemetery, and this Church served the entire Bedeque area. The Freetown Presbyterian church was erected around 1892.

Those of the Methodist persuasion attended Cottage Meetings held in the homes, which were led by Prayer Leaders. among whom was David Rogers. About this time, 1862, Edmund Crosby donated a piece of land and a Methodist Chapel was built. This Chapel was opened for services in 1864, and dedicated in 1865. With the union of the Canadian Churches, the Congregational, the Presbyterian and the Methodist, in 1925, the Wesleyan Methodist Church became known as the Freetown United Church. Those who elected to remain Presbyterian continued to worship in the Presbyterian Church as previously.

. Members of the Baptist Communion used the Lower Freetown Hall as their place of Worship until the Birch Grove Hall was built in Freetown, then they removed their services to that hall, since it was in a more central location.

Those of the Roman Catholic Faith have over the years attended Mass in the Church of their choice at Seven Mile Bay, Kinkora, or Summer- field. '

Whatever their denomination, religion was important to them. Bad weather, bad roads, no roads, wooded paths or none, made little difference to them, they attended divine worship, and their faith showed in their lives, making them strong men and women.

Of the Lower Freetown families four young men were ordained to the ministery, Reverend Leslie Burns, Reverend Father Thomas Hammill, Reverend Father Preston Hammill, and Reverend Samuel B. Profitt.

Compiled by Mrs. R. Louis Cairns.

SUMMATION

A story in my old school book was entitled “Country Life in Canada in the Thirties”. meaning, of course, the 1830’s. There was nothing exciting in the story, just the everyday happenings and the hardships of that time. There was nothing to enliven the interest of anyone who was acquainted with that way of life, but when viewed from a perspective of one hundred

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