them the following Sunday. The promise was kept and the mass was offered by Father DeBrenil , and served by one old Mr. Barr then schoolmaster in the district. The register of St. Anne's church "states that " Rev. Mr. Reynolds entered on the mission in this parish, on Thursday, May 29th in the year of our Lord I85I, and celebrated mass in St. Anne's chapel the same day. His successor, the Rev. Jaaes Duffy, entered on the mission on the lh March 1859 and celebrated his first mass in St. Annes chapel on Sunday the 10th April 1859." On the 28th July 1855 St. Anne's church and burial ground were blessed by the right Reverend Bernard Donald MacDonald, Bishop of Charlottetown . The parochial house of St. Anne's was built in 1859. the contract was let on the 9th. made to Patrick Began , and the building completed in the following September. Father Duffy was parish priest at the time. After the death of Father Duffy, which occured in Charlottebfcwn on 1st. December I860, Father Reynolds resumed the charge of St. Anne's until 1867» when Rev. P. Doyle took charge of the mission. In I876 Father Doyle removed to Summerside , and Rev. Felix Von ^lerk succeeded him, he in 1877 was succeeded by Rev. James Arneas MacDonald. Father Reynolds and Father Duffy were the only priests who ever made their home at St. Anne's, the others all resided in the adjacent mission of St. Joseph, DeSable , from which St. Anne's is served. The old people of the place tell that Father Duffy imported the first waggon ever seen in the settlement, prior to its arrival, wheels were unknown, Father Reynolds, during his first occupancy of the mission went about on horseback, while the settlers carried all their loads by means of creels. The visitor to St. Anne's mission will glean from the older settlers many interesting anecdotes of the hardships endured by them in the early days ">f their existance as colonists.// No less interesting is the conversation of these people when