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are of stained glass; everything about the church is very neat and in perfect

order.

In the early days, owing to the scarcity of priests in the diocese. Mass was

celebrated but seldom at Seven Mile Bay, sometimes only twice a year. and

many through want of the spiritual aids of Holy Religion, grew cold in the faith for which their fathers had suffered and even "turned3 away their hearing from the truth”.

In the part of the parish nearest to Charlottetown, Father Reynolds used to

hold a station at the house of Mr. Michael Dalton, and Father Morris used

to hold one at Mr. Martin Doyles.

The old families of Scotch Settlers have for the most part befiome extinct,

some have moved to old homes and Seven Mile Bay is now chiefly settled by

Irish Families.

The origin of the name of this district is not known. Some people say it was so called on acc0unt of its being Seven Miles frOm the settlement of Bedeque. others give as a reason, the width of the Bay which measures Seven miles from Sea Cow Head to Carleton Point.

Since the opening of the railray from County," Line, Cape Traverse has become quite a busy place, and when the Tormentine Branch shall have established a connection with the Intercolonial Railway, it will be one of the chief ports of the Province. Such being the case, it is the intention of the Bishop to remove the church of St. Peter from its present site and to place it in the village of Cape Traverse, so that it will be more conveniently situated and easier of aceess to the majority of the parishowners, as well as to the pastor, the Rev. Patrick Doyle who has been in charge of the mission for

twenty years, he having first snid mass in St. Peter's Church on the

9th. September 1866.