MISSION OF ST. THERESA BALDWIN'S ROAD

Four years after the emigratiOu to Fort Augustus, ?rince Edward Island. of a number of the parishoners of Father Hoynagh. pastor of Donagh. a man named James Trainor. agent for Father John MacDonald of Glenaladale. went over to Ireland and collected. chiefly in County Monaghan. two shiploads of people. who sailed from Felfast in the'"Connisbruck“ and the "Agitator“ early in the spring of 1839 and landed in Charlottetown in Fay of that year. Some of these peoPle settled among their friends in Fort Augustus. some in Township Sixty- Five. others in Sparrow's Road, Montague, and Johnston's River. Many who at first settled in Fort Augustus moved to the district knOWn as Baldwin‘s Road. so called from the farm of a Tipperary man. named Thomas Baldwin, who was the first settler in the district. Here a few years later. they were Joined by Francis Curran, Patrick Bradley, Peter McQuaid. John McQuaid and Andrew Campbell, who came out from Ireland in lSMl in the "Margaret Pollock" and who, with amny others took up land on the Montgomery estate on Baldwin's Road which was then uncleared forest. These people who were all good Catholics. attended mass in the parish of Vernon River until their own church was built. The mission was at that time served by Father Brady. who decided upon building a church three miles to the north of St. Theresa's, in Peake's Road, he obtained a grant of sixty acres of land from the late Charles Norrel, Esq. and made preparations for building. The land was cleared and scantling prepared when there was a change of parochial administration. and Rev. James Arneas McIntyre took charge of the parish. Father McIntyre though the situation selected by Father Brady two far back in the woods. and purchased twelve acres of land from

fir. Campiou. upon which the first church of the Baldwin’s Road mission has built