own mission nor in any adjacent one Mr. McKinnon was in the habit of assembling

the peeple in the church where he would read the mass prayers to them. This pions

practice gained for him the title of Saggarth Maids orwthe Wooden priest. This

good old gentleman bequeathed to his son Mr. Murdock McKinnon of Big Marsh a

precious relic of the past in the shape of a prayer book which was given to him

by Father Beaubieu. and in which his name is written by that good missionary.

In 1818 Father Beaubieu was succeeded by Father Cecile, who occasionally ministered to the faithful band of Highlanders on the banks of Grand River. To him succeeded the Rev. Bernard Donald MacDonald, who took charge of the western parishes and who came to Grand River three times a year. Father McDonald built the first glebe

house of the mission which is now used as a coachhouse by the present occupant of St.

Patrick(s parish. In 1836 be commenced building the existing church but, being summoned to Charlottetown to receive the mitre. he left the completion of St. atrick's to the Rev. James McDonald who succeeded him in the western missions.

The new church of St. Patrick was opened in 1839. but not completed interiorly until 18“”. It is sixty feet in length by forty in breadth. with a wall of twenty four feet. In lShN the presbytery was built by Father James MacDonald

who attended the mission from his home at Indian River, a distance of over

twenty miles. In 1869 Father McDonald was appointed Recttr of St. Dunstan's College, Charlottetown, and St. Patrick's mission was attended from Miscouche

by Rev. Donald McDonald until 1876 when Rev. M.J. McMillan went to Grand River

as the first resident priest. In 1878 he was removed to St. Theresa's mission Baldwin's Road, and was succeeded in Grand River by Rev. Angus McDonald. who

in 1880 was replaced by Rev. Laughlin McDonald the present pastor.

The country around St. Patricks church which was so wild when the first settlers built their little log cabins around the margin of the river. is now in a high

state of cultivation and the descendants of the emigrants of 1790 are, many of them,

wealthy men.

The older settlers retain a vivid impression of the hardships they endured when