Alberton

MISSION OF THE SACRED HEART ALBERTON

This mission is composed of part of old Cascumpec and part of Tignish, and

s of quite recent date. The town of Alberton, a busy little place, had its rst beginning in the house and store of Mr. Herbert Bell. To the cross roads, here this store was situated, the country people would come to buy groceries d articles of wearing apparel, and the spot became generally known as Bell's ross. Here a village gradually grew up, and as it increased, the ideas of its nhabitants kept pace until at a meeting convened in the town hall some years 0, they decided to call their town Alberton in memory of the late Prince Consort. To Mr. Bell's country store succeeded many business establishments, some on a large scale, such as those of Keefe and Co., Michael Fbley, Reid Brothers, and the Hon. Senator Howlan, now so famous as the originator of the great subway scheme, by which he hopes to see Prince Edward Island connected with the mainland.

At a little distance from Alberton is Cascumpec Point where at one time the late Hon. J. C. Pope had a large ship yard. Here in the beginning of the century, Van Englishman named Hill, carried on an extensive business in timber. He {induced some of the Highland emigrants lately arrived in Prince Edward Island to come here and work for him, and he also gave employment to the French settlers } in the adjacent settlement of Cascumpec village. These French residents % eventually removed to the newly formed mission of Bloom field, while the Irish L and Scotch workmen of the Point, drifted to Alberton. Thus out of one mission 1 two were formed. The Hon. Lemuel Cambridge who succeeded Pkg Hill in the

timber business at Cascumpec Point employed a large number of workmen of dif-

ferent nationalities who settled in the environs of Alberton.

About the year 1877, the first church of this mission was built; it was un-

fbrtunately blown down in theautumn of that year. A new frame was erected