-5... dwelling. Mr. Mciachern having in addition to the Scotch, the few Irish and _ English Catholic families who had settled in the Province.

There is no historical record to show whether Mrs. Callbeck's offer of land was accepted or not. but there is extant a pastoral letter in the handwriting of Mgr. Plessis addressed to Father NcEachern and written from Bay Fortune. P.E.I. on the 18th of July 1812. in which the Bishop says:-

'You will obtain as soon as possible the title deeds of the site that is

offered you in Charlottetown and engage the faithful of the town and the

surrounding country to begin at once to build a chapel according to what-

ever plan you may give them. so that by next spring you will be in a

position to celebrate the Holy mysteries therein and to fulfil the duties

of your ministry.“

The next reference to this church in the archives is contained in a letter from Mhnseigneur Plessis to Father bbfiachern dated from Quebec - August 3rd. 1818, in which the BishOp writeszs

'In putting the pews of your new church up to auction you are not

absolutely obliged to give one to Mr. Callback; nevertheless, it would

be proper to leave one in reserve for the seigneur whoever he might be.

and Mr. Callbeck could occupy it if he chose."

These small links are all that we have to connect the existence of a Catholic Chapel in Charlottetown in the second decade of this century with the generous offer of Mrs. Callbeck made in 1812; that such a chapel did exist seems pretty clear from the testimony of some of the pioneer Catholics of the Province. be. Nhrdock LhKinnon of Big Marsh, Township Fourteen, relates how, being in Charlottetown in the winter ofrlgl9, he heard mass in a small chapel on Sydney Street which he says was called "Lthee's chapel" owing to a fix. Fthee having been principal contributor towards its erection.

The Catholics of those days were for the most part poor as to this world's