/ f On the northern side of the road, a little above the McRae clearing, were the ruins of an old French Church and a French "burying ground, the church was at the time unfit for use, hut it was afterwards repaired and Father James said Mass in it. In the archieves of the diocese there is mention made of the old church of Tracadie which was interdicted "a cause de son indecence" by Bishop Denant in his pastoral visit of 1803. The late John Mcintosh of Neufrage used to relate how on All Saints Day 1801 he went with his father to the Scotch Fort chapel. Bishop, then, Priest McEachern celebrated mass, and the harms of Angus Gillis of Fort Augustus and of Asn McDonald were rmblishec'. The chapel, according to Mr. Mcintosh was thirty feet in length, by twenty five in width, and ten feet high. The GleiPlpdple family with rrtmr of their el«n?Tnea *eftlert \n tb*t 7art of Tracadin fr^it'nir on "Re* ford "*«▼•, *n* **<•*•* (Vnt*!n «»eTi«n»»1* •*••,»♦• ed nis Manor House. He was proprietor of Township thirty five and thirty six, in all about forty thousand acres of land. Driving from Scotch Fort to Tracadie , at some distance past what is called the Cross Roads , one comes to a spot in the woods where two roads branch off, one leads to the estate of Glenaladale the other to the parish church of St. Bonaventure and the parochial house. The church is of wood, about sixty feet by forty, with a tower twelve feet square, surmounted by a steeple. Preparations for the building of this church were made by the late Rev. Charles MacDonell , but it was erected by his successor* the late Rev. Janes Brady , some short time prior to 18^0. The tower and a further addition were added by the Rev. Thomas Phelan in 1864. A farm of twelve acres and enough land for a large cemetery were given to the Tracadie mission comprises portions of Townships Thirty five and Thirty six,