the settlement was young. nor are the terrible Journeys that fell to the lot

'of their missionaries forgotten. From the rocks of the North Cape to the low lands of Rustico. the priest went to and fro at all seasons and over all sorts of roads. sometimes on horse back. sometimes on snow shoes. and more frequently in Canoe. Mr. Murdock McKinnon relates how on one occasion he went in search of Father Cecile for a dying person. The priest was at Tignish end the boy had thirty miles to travel in order to bring him to the bedside of his dying friend. He took a canoe from Grand River Ferry to Kildare Inlet, and completed the Journey on foot. 0n the return voyage. while dragging their canoe across the portage from Port Hill to Grand River Mr. Cecile, whose knowledge of English was very slight. took the boy's hand in his own and squeezed it hard asking him:- “lhat is the English of that"? To Mr. McKinnon, the son of that Alexander McKinnon who dauntlessly confronted the laird of Barre, in defence of his rights we are invdebted for most of the history of Grand River mission. Mr. McKinnon who is the possessor of broad and fertile acres. and whose family are settled around him in comfort and prosperity. tells the story of the expatriatiou of his friends and hindred in glowing words. referring with pardonable pride to the success which they have achieved in the new world, while in the old country

the voice of their persecutor is long since silent, and the family of Mr. Leod

of Barre has become extinct.