Off Capt Egmont. a large fragment of rock stands isolated in deep water. This gave to the settlement in early days the name of “La Roche“.

any beautiful hardwood trees grow near the church and along the margin of the bubbling little stream known as Riviere Jacques, called after the late Jacques Bernard through whose property it wended its way to turn the wheels of a saw mill now owned by the NacNally family.

Near the church. which he served faithfully for so many years, dwells the Rev. Sylvain Poirier. his declining years carefully cared for by kind relatives.

Egmont Bay has no very stirring history nor any striking peculiarity. but it

1 is the home of a kindly and prosperous people who can compare favourably with those

who supplanted them in the old village of St. Eleanors.