on Panmure Island at the mouth of the Harbour, where he erected a fine brick

(dwelling house and many other buildings and where he did an extensive business

for many years. Besides his family. he brough with him, a fbllowing of fifty

persons. who settled in the adjoining district of Gaspereenx and who itigrobable,

aided much in the erection of the church that shortly after their arrival was built upon Panmure Island. Beside the church was a cemetery where Mr. McDonald and his wife are buried and which was for many years a favorite place of Sepulture

the dwellers in Gaspereaux bringing their dead there for internment. long after

the church was removed to Georgetown.

Some years before there was a house where Georgetown now stands, Burnt Point

and what is called the Royalty, were settled by seVen or eight Highland Catholic families from Histr with a sprinking of Presbyterians from the Isle of Skye.

These people formed part of the band of emigrants who came out with the Earl of Selkirk in 1802. in the good ship "Polly". The majority of Lord Selkirk’s following settled in Belfast. but the Catholics of the band. with a few Protestants. bearing that there were free farms to be had at Launching in Township Fifty Five, made their way thither.

They found that the lands which had been encheatddby governor smith were all taken up and they decided to settle on what is now the Royalty of Georgetown and upon land belonging to Lord Selkirk on the Cardigan River. Lord Selkirk gave to each family on his estate. one cow, one axe and a good grubbing hook and to every two families he gave a quern or handmill with which to grind their corn.

After many‘yeers of successful business life at Panmure Island. the venerable

Mr. Andrew MacDonald moved across the harbour to where GeorgetoWn now stands;

families of different nationalities came to settle at this point, and everything

gave promise of it becoming a busy tawn.

About the year 1858 the old church at Panmure Island was dismantled and the boards

and scantling with the ad”ition of a large supply of fresh material, were used in