FHSSIDN OF All.SAINTS CARDIGAN BRIDGE In the early part of the present century, the country now comprised in the parish of all Saints, was settled by nine Catholic families, chiefly from Uist in the Western Highlands of Scotland. In 1862 a bridge was built over the Cardigan River about two miles below the one which since the memory of the oldest inhabitant had spanned the “Head of Cardigan". Roads leading to the bridge were opened the same year. thus affording easy cmnmuncation between all points of the surrounding country. Houses began to spring up along the roadsides: the shipping trade found a centre here. More Scotch and Irish families arrived to swell the population, and everything pointed to the new settlement at Cardigan 'Bridge as a good location for a mission church. It was accordingly decided to build one, and the contract was let in the spring of l§1g. The church of All Saints was opened on the let November of the same year. Its dimensions are eighty feet in length by thirty five in breadth. It has lately been completed interiorly and is a very neat and pretty edifice. It is furnished with galleries. The walls are white, the deep wainscotting and the pews being of ash. The end of each pew is finished with a large Latin Cross in black walnut. The altar, which in this diocese is unique of its kind, is of Italian marble, 'relieved by Nova Scotia freestone richly carved. It is Gothic in style. The centre arch surmounted by a massive stone cross, shows in bas relief, slightly touched with gold, the design of the Blessed Sacrament, raised above the chalice and supported by two hands. Above this_is the Agnus lei, and below, the im. plements of the Passion carved in stone. This arch is supported at either side by stone pillars on which are traced delicate grape vines and clusters of fruit. These pillars are also surmounted by stone crosses. Two smaller arches bear sheaves of wheat, also carved in has relief. The front of the altar is formed

by three Gothic arches rising over marble slabs, which bear the letters of the