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.xtending from Donaldston on the west to the boundarv line between iownship Thirty I1! and thirty seven on the east, and havine Hill-hovnnih no a southern and Bedford Bay as a Northern boundary.

The first pastor of this mission was the Rev. James MacDonald, who died in

1785. Then came Father (Afterwards Bishop) MeEachern then the Reverend John MacDonald and the Rev. Charles McDonell, who was succeeded by the Rev. James Brady.

After thirteen years ministery, he was replaced by the Rev. Thomas Phelan who has been charged with Tracadie mission for thirty two years.

Although of late. it has become one of the mest fashionable watering places

in the province there is not much in Tracadie to interest the average stranger if we except the magnificent mansion of Mr. MacDonald of Glenaladale. with its outbuildings which surpass everything of their kind in Canada. For the antiquaryhowovcr, Wracadie has a char: the go. gaze is matter for reflenion Tracadio - whence comes it?

Elke Acvdie. Tassmacadie and Shubenaraiie, it is a name of the old lcadian days - but the origin of it is lost amid many speculations.

The ancient cemetery at Seoteh tort is still the buryinr place of tie MacDonalds

of Glenaladale. A magnificent cross of purest white marble, morticed into a

block of Scotch granite. tells the passer by. that:

"Here lie deposited in the peace of Christ. awaiting the coming of the judge of the living and the dead, in the hope of a glorious resurrection, and a happy immortality, the mortal remains of John MacDonald of Glenaladale, Esq,

a captain in His Majesty's Shth regiment of Foot. who emigrated with his family to this Island, 1772. bringing with him a number of his clansmen from the

Highlands of Scotland. and of Margaret his wife. and of Flora Anna Maria their

daughter, relict of the late Alexander MacDonell of Donaldston Esquire.