own mission nor in any adjacent one Mr. McKinnon was in the habit of assembling the people in the church where he would read the mass prayers to them. This pions practice gained for him the title of Saggarth Maide or the 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 Peaubieu , and in which his name is written by that good, missionary. In 1312 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 MacDoaald , who took charge of the western parishes end who came to Grand River three times a year. Father McDonald built the first glebe hoa3fc of the mission which is now used as a coachhouse by the present occupant of St. Patrick(s parish. In I836 he commenced building the existing church but, being summoned to Charlottetown to receive the mitre, he left the completion of St. Patrick's to the Rev. James McDonald who succeeded him in the western missions. The new church of St. Patrick was opened in 1839t °ut not complated interiorly until 1844. It is sixty feet in length by forty in breadth, with a wall of twenty four feet. In 1844 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 Recfctr of St. D-unstan's College, Charlottetown , and St. Patrick's mission was attended from Miscouche by Rev. Donald McDonald until I876 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 1750 arei roany of them, wealthy men. The older settlers retain a vivid impression of the hardships they endured when