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MISSION OF ST. EUGENE'S

COVE HEAD

This mission, which comprises Township Thirty Four, is almost exclusively settled by Irish farmers. The first church, a log building, thirty feet in length, was erected about 133. by the late Rev. John MacDonald of Glensladale. The proprietor of the Township, the 'late James Graham Montgomery, having given Bishop MacDonald three acres of land fix a church site and c-etery, the present wooden edifice was erected thereon in 1853, during the pastorate of the Rev. Thomas Phelan, Michael Walsh being the builder. This church has a tower and spire and a good vestry.

Cove Head was at one time part of Tracadie Parish, but after the departure of Father John MacDonald, it was served from Charlottetown up to 1860, since which time it has again depended on Trecadie.

The mission formerly contained forty Catholic families. At present there are

not more than twenty six. Mass is celebrated in St. Eugene's Church every third

Sunday. FIIGT SETTLERS IN THE ST. EUGENE'S MISSION James Fitzpatrick John Reardon John Phelan Donald Ready John Landrigan Thomas Kelly Natthew Redmond John mm Patrick Riley Stephen Treacy

Martin Reid Nicholas Mullins