SAINT DUNSTAN'S COLLEGE

CHAnLonnovm PRINCE EDWARD Isuuo

-3- 0n 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. This church was at the time unfit for use, but 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 pastaral

Visit of 1803.

The last 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 banns of Angus Gillie of Fort Augustus and of Ann

McDonald were published.

The chppel, according to Mr. McIntosh was thirty feet in length, by twenty five in

width, and ten feet high.

The Glenaladale family with many of their clansnen settled in that part of Tracadie fronting on Bedford Bay, and there Captain lacDonald erected his manor House. he

was proprietor of Township thirty five and thirty six, in all about forty thousand

acres of land.

Driving from Scotch Fbrt 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, sunnounted by a steeple. Preparations for the building of this church were made by the late Rev. Charles Lthonell, but it was erected by his

successor, the late Rev. James nrady, some short time prior to 1840.

The tower and a further addition were added by the Rev. Thomas Phelan in 1864. a