~£ v V- r- c\ fc. o -» MISSION OF ST. PAUL STURGEOH The first settlers of this mission, arrived at Gasperaaux in 1803. but for nearly fift years there was no church nearer than that "built "by the MacDonalds on , to which the faithful v/ere wont to repairs. Rev. Francis Ma .cDonald when residing at old Launching used to hold a mission at Sturgecn twice a year. The foundation of the church of St. Fauls was laid in 18^1. The church is forty six feet long "by thirty five bread, the "builder was Fetor Stewart. There has never "been a resident priest at Sturgeon, it having "been attended from Georgetown up to 1 S 8 U when it was annexed.to Montague Bridge, now in the pastoral care of F.ev. 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 feligious 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 ahsence 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 pa.rishoners have already over U ,000 deposited in the bank. The settlement of Lower Montague , on the southern hank of the Montague F .iver, is included in the parish of Sturgeon , as 1b also Panmure Island. Lower Montague terminates in St. Andrew's Point, on which is the residence of Hon. Joseph Wightman the oldest house on Prince Edward Island . When about the ye?.r 180^ the family of Andrew McDonald , Esq of Eileen Shona , Invernesshire, end afterwards of Panmure Island , came out to the land which thelf father had purchased in the eastern portion of Prince Edward Island , thtjy