/ r men to emigrate, h.\A sent his younger "brother Donald with a hand of mechanics to erect huildlrvrs c~A make some preparation for the accomodation of those who were to he tenants on the Glenaladale estate. In this pioneer "band was one McRae who had house a few miles above the pffrtage where the "Alexander" anchored, in a district which, in opposition to the old French fort they had passed on their way from Port-La-Joie, the emigrants duhbed Scotch Forts, a name it retains to this day. It ia prohahle that McRae1s house was the first erected and that his fellow artisans sought its shelter after their days work was over, as well as in the months when the storm Xing rode abroad in the forest and on the river, driving even these hardy mou»taiaeers in doors to seek the comfort of a blazing wood fire and a eonwolxwr olT>e, How they mu*t h«r# t-lVed of home on «ueh oef»«**o«?, •«■' y* •« **■* lw "^^rit the misty lochs and rugged isles, where their dear ones were praying for the absent, and looking forward to the coming summer when they too, should free the untried future in the new world. Tradition tells, that, in one compartment of that first log house, the faithful would distinctly hear the words of the Holy Mass, as if an invisible priest, were offering the sacrifice for them in their midst, even the tones of his voice were clearly audible as he addressed the almighty in the grand invocations of the Canon. The old people further tell you that whon Father Janes McDonald landed from the "Alexander" his first mass on Canadian ground was offered in McRae*s house, and those who had preceded the priest into exile recognized his tones as those they had heard during the past winter when no mass was being celebrated within many miles of their cabin. Be that as it mny, it was in that part of Tracadie known as Scotch Fort and in the houre of TJo"-.'1.f. "cT,.-.c th~.t 7r.ther Jxses Mr .cDcnr .li too': tn his'abode, and from there he ■tarted in hi» canoe voyages to minister to the side in other parts of t'le prov! tot.