KISSIC!! 0? ST. AST?!! FOPS aT77> H Fron the year 1313 to the year 133'0 i the district which comprises this mission was giS-iiually settled hy Irish emigrants, chiefly from the counties of Wexford and I'erry. These j.eople 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, Kustico was the nearest mission to them and thither they repaired when mass was said in that parish. At other times they would resist st the Holy Scorifies, at Park Corner , hTew London, and ultimately, permission was granted co them to have a station in their own settlement, at the house of Mr, Ff trick Fleming. In the year I8 U 3 th- p-rishoners united to build themselves a charch, working •anaer the direction of a foreman named Burns. This structure wns of logs, and its dimensions were thirty feet squar«. Soon after its erection, it blew down, the parishoners then gave p. contract for the building of a second to Messrs. Joseph Doyle pad Tiernay, agreeing to pay then tho sum of fortv pounds. This primitive church was served hy Bishop McDonald, who said V^ss there three times h ye?r. It v.-s removed a few years after it completion to a more central and prominent site, and in lZfj4 was replaced by a frame building, erected by the parishoners themselves who hewed and prepared the timber, put up the fr?>."e, and boarded i 'nd shingled it. Tills charch, although in use for ten years, was never completed, it being the wish of the Bishop to h '.t replaced with a stone edifice, for which an adjacent quarry would firnich ampl-s material. This stone, however, the parish- oners imagined to be unsuitable for building . , the project : stone cliurch w: ? c'v»n u<;, and in 1375 another wooden one Wc-t built. It *-? •