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MISSION OF ST. PAUL STURGEOR The first settlers of this mission, arrived at Gaspereaux in 1803. but for nearly fift years there was no church nearer than that built by the MacDonalds on Panmure Island. to which the faithful were wont to repairs. Rev. Francis MacDonald when residing at old Launching used to hold a mission at Sturgecn twtce a year. The foundation of the church of St. Pauls was laid in 1651. The

church is forty six feet long by thirty five broad, the builder was Peter Stewart. There has never been a resident priest at Sturgeon. it having been attended from Georgetown up to 188% when it was annexedito Montague Bridge,

now in the pastoral care of Rev. William Phelan. The settlers of Sturgeon

are Irish. Scotch and English. they found it a wild and uncultivated land,

but by diligence and perseverance much has been done towards the agricultural development of the soil.

That the early settlers shared in the religious privations of olden times is shewn by the fact, that in 1825 when one of them fell ill, Bishop McEachern, being off the Island, the sick man's friends took a boat and went to Arisaig

to fetch Father Colin grant with whom they returned in triumph, after an absence of two days. The church of St. Paul has become inadequate to the wants of the Parish and will shortly be replaced by a new one towards the building of which the parishoners have already over N,OOO deposited in the bank. I The settlement of Lower Montague. on the southern bank of the Montague River, is included in the parish of Sturgeon, as in also Psnmure Island. Lower Montague terminates in St. Andrew's Point, on thich is the residence of Hon. Joseph Wightman the oldest house on Prince Edward Island.

When about the year 1835 the family of Andrew McDonald, Esq of Eileen Shons,

Invernesshire, and afterwards of Panmure Island, came out to the land which

theiffather had purchased in the eastern portion of Prince Edward Island, they