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MISSION OF ST. PATRICK FORT AUGUSTUS

Directly Opposite to Portage where the emigrants of the "Alexander" disembarked a magnificient elevation of land, running back from the river into an open and fertile country, is known as the as the Parish of Fort Augustus. - The first settlement of this district took place in 1830, and was in this wises. The second son of Captain John MacDonald of Glenaladale, the Rev. John MacDonald, was for five years after his ordination. a priest in Glasgow, Scotland, under Bishop Scott. In his charge were a number of Irish families, who, driven from their country by the poverty engendered of persecution. had sought and found emp- loyment in Glasgow mills and factories. These people were chiefly from the counties of Douay Derry and nutrim with a few from Monaghan. Their situation in a heretical country was fraught with much danger.to their faith. From the time of Oliver Cromwell to the beginning of the present century a priest has a rarity in that part of Scotland, and so late as the year 181%. the corner store of St. Andrew's church was laid, the first church built in Glasgow since Scotland apostnsized. The little colony of Irish, unaccustomed to the Ways of the place and the peeple were therefore much exposed to danger. Father John MacDonald not unnaturally thought that they would be much better off were they to emigrate to Prince Edward Island, and as the southern part of his father's estate had fallen to his share. he offered to take them as tenants upon it, giving them holdings at one shilling sterling an acre for nine hundred and ninety years. each head of a family to pay money proportionate to the value of the preperty as signed to him on his arrival. After long cagitntion his offer was accepted, and on the 3th April 1330 the "Glasgow Irish" set sail from Greenock in the good ship "Corsair“, their

future landlord being a fellow passenger. They landed in CharlottetOWn on the

19th flay after a six weeks voyage, having lost one passenger. an old man who was