heard his confession and remained with him until his death which occured shortly after. This C-ermain Chris son was considered quite a scholar in his day ahd was also a very good man, one who made a point of collecting the inhabitants of the settlement and reading the prayers of the church, to them on Sundays and Holy ("ays when they were without a priest. Naturally he vss much esteemed and all his neighbours, Protestants as well as Catholics flocked to his funeral.. The abbe de Oalonne seized the opportunity to preach a very clear and practical instruction over his grave, one which made a deep impression upon all who heard it, ?md of which their descendants make mention to this day. After the Ahbe de Calonne came the Abbe Gabriel Champion and then Father McEachern, afterwards Bishop under whose direction was built the firtt little log chapel in year 180^. At this tiire there were but eighteen families in th-» parish and they all assisted in the building of the little church which was but thirty feet in length by twenty in breadth and twelve feet high. It was iedicated to St. Alexis by Bis'rop Flessis in the 17th July 1812. It stood down clos» to the shore, beside the old burning ^round where sl*tp the pioneer settlers of Hollo Fay. There are no very old toombstones to be seen in this ancient cemetery, those placed lh»rt of the wall "• ' "nty one feet. In 1870-2 a chancel • .' '■ v er -.ere