MISSION OF THE SACRED HEABT This mission is composed of part of old Cascumpec and part of Tignish , and is of quite recent date. The town of , a busy little place, had its first beginning in the house and store of Mr. Herbert Bell . To the cross roads, where this store was situated, the country oeople would come to buy groceries and 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 o, 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 Foley , ?.eid Brothers, and the Hon. Senator Howlan , now so famous as tne originator of the groat subway scheme, by which he hopes to see Prince Edward Island connected I v;ith the Mainland. At a little distance from Alberton is Point where at one time the late Hon. J. C. Pope had a large ship yard. Here in the beginning of the century, an 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 emuloyment 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 and Scotch workmen of the Point, drifted to Alberton . Thus out of one mission two were formed. The Hon. Lemuel Cambridge who succeeded Mr. Hill in the timber business at C-.scumpcc Point employed a lsrge number of workmen of dif¬ ferent nationalities who settled in the environs of Alberton . About the year 1377, -'" first church of this r.ission was built; it was un¬ fortunately blown down in the autumn of that year. A new frame was erected