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From the year 1319 to the year 1830, the district which comprises this mission was grencally settled by Irish emigrants, chiefly from the counties of Vexford and Kerry. These people encountered all the hardships incidental to settlers in a new country, among others that of being a long distance from a church or a resident priest, Rustico was the nearest mission to them and thither they repaired when mass was said in that parish. At other times they would assist at the Holy Sacrifice, at Park Corner, New London, and ultimately, permissiOn was granted to them to have a station in their own settlement, at the house of Mr. Patrick Fleming, In the year 18“ the perishoners united to build themselves a church, working under the direction of a foreman named Burns. This structure was of logs, and its dimensions were thirty feet square. Soon after its erection, it blew down, the parishoners then gave a contract for the building of a second to Messrs. Joseph Doyle end Tierney, agreeing to pay them the sum of forty pounds. This primitive church was served by Bishop McDonald, who said fiass there three times a year. It was removed a few years after it completion to a more central and prominent site, and in 186% was replaced by a frame building, erected by the parishoners themselves who hewed and prepared the timber, put up the freme, and boarded and shingled it. This chdrch, although in use for ten years, was never completed, it being the

wish of the Bishop to have it replhced with a stone edifice, for which an

adjacent quarry would flruish ample material. -nis stone, however, the parish- oner‘; imnp’irpzl t‘. ‘r “and" 1.16 for 32315;?!“ .11: ".‘~‘.“.‘, so if: f. the prcje“:t 3‘." '

stone church was given up, and in 1875 another wooden one was built. It was