neighbours were gathered fron near and fe.r to profit of hie priestly services. Down in a field of sweet scented clover, overlooking the "blight waters of the bay a mound of stones half hidden by wild roses pnd "blue vetch marks the place where the young missionary said his first mass in a room of his father's house. He would seem to have at once thrown himself iato the work of his vocation, travelling about the Island as well as the Mainland hut his headquarters for some years v.'sre at Savage Harbour vhere he "built for his father a large stone house, one end of which was reserved for his own use and for a chapel. When in the year 179& Lieutenant Burns , one of the proprietors in this part of the country, announced his intention of selling his property and returning to Scotland . Father McEachern saw his opportunity of securing a desirable parochial farm, and with that end in view, collected one hundred pounds sterling from the Highland emigrants, Borrowed sixty pounds from one Mr. Blanchard of Rustico , and hough!, three acres from Mr. Burns . Upon this estate was an old log house in which he took up his residence and superintended the clearing of the land raid the preparation of lumber etc, for the church, which was commenced about the year 180 S. This church was sixty feet in length and forty feet in breadth; it was fremed by Mr. Carroll and his son William, the joiners were Colin MacEachern and Mr. Peters . The church stood within the present enclosure of the ■ burying ground. In 1321 Father MacEachern was called to Quebec to receive the mitre, the next ye?r he with the assistance of his flock, erected a two story house on the hill above the church of St. Andrew. This building he from the first intended for a clllege where the youths of his own diocese and others could be trained in the higher branches of education, but for some years he used it as a parochial house. In 1323 he obtained a grant of fifty pounds sterling per annrjnr fro,, the government for the support of the college of St. kn&rew which he in thai year made over to trustees, together with the land adjoining. Eishop McEachern then purchased seventy, ".ores from Captain John Stewart Segnieur of Mount Stewart, upon t?iis property called Ceaim-a- Bhaih (Jleunavoy), he built a houce